New Packages, E-commerce and Remote Work

4-minute demo video of a new package by Marcel Pociot called Laravel ER Diagram Generator.

With the advent of the internet, many regular things became faster and easier. One of the things that improved is commerce. Commercial activities carried out on the web are known as e-commerce. E-commerce applications make sales of goods and services over the internet possible.

Matt Stauffer recently tweeted about deployment in the Laravel world and how people ask him questions about it. In this post I wanna share how I usually deploy my Laravel apps.

All over the world, there are many numeral systems belong to various languages. (check this article on Wikipedia).

There are already quite a few guides on how to setup laravel queues on shared hosting, so you probably have seen or already have a way of working with queues on shared hosting. If you have, this guide follows that same train of thought but with a more personalised view.

New package: Artisan Menu - Use Artisan via an elegant console GUI

Good discussion on Reddit.

Laravel Query Detector is a package by Marcel Pociot, which detects N+1 queries. The package will automatically notify you of any N+1 issues when your application is in debug mode. We all run into the N+1 problem once in a while.

Here at Pterodactyl we use Laravel Dusk to perform automated browser testing of the application in development. Dusk provides a fluent interface for interacting with Facebook's PHP Webdriver implementation, and allows us to quickly generate tests.

It's easy to notify one user by mail. But how to send a mail to all members of a Team? You can send one email to multiple recipients but it's not convenient, as it discloses recipient emails, which is not secure. Thus, you need to send bunch of personal emails on a loop.

As developers we all seek for a way to write better code, but most of the tutorials we can find online, show only ways to handle simple requests and when we meet the complicated request with 20 fields, which should create 5 types of models, we don’t know what to do and dump all the logic in the co

Vue.js is with no doubts the preferred JavaScript framework in the Laravel community. In fact, a fresh Laravel application comes with Vue.js already set up out of the box.

Crazy situations come up when clients asks for something that you haven’t seen. But this gives us the way to learn and I like these kind of clients. So, the requirement was to login using customer_id , password and dob as a combination in laravel.

This article is a story where I openly share all my learnings and challenges I’ve experienced throughout my journey of working remotely as a software engineer.