Sockets, Scopes, PhpStorm and Git Branching

One free video from my course "Eloquent: Expert Level".

I’m a big fan of writing module-based software, but I’m not so fond of relying on third-party packages for trivial things as they could always prevent you from upgrading. For the two years I have been writing module-based software with Laravel and I’m very happy with the result.

We have just finished our transition from a websocket server based on laravel-echo-server to one that is fully driven by PHP: laravel-websockets. In this post, we'll highlight why and how we made that move.

This talk was given by Shawn McCool, Co-creator of Laravel Certification at LaravelLive India 2018 which we held on 19th March 2018 in New Delhi.

I'm currently working on a project and as part of it I'm building in unit/feature tests for the functionality of all the code. I'm fairly new to Laravel but I'm struggling finding the best way to test my code which makes use of third-party APIs.

laravel-websockets is a Laravel package that can handle the server side of WebSockets entirely. It completely replaces the need for a service like Pusher or a JavaScript-based laravel-echo-server. It has extensive documentation and a demo application you can play with.

Adds the @readable_int directive to Laravel's Blade templating system. This way you can shorten numbers into strings like 123K+. Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

I've been using PhpStorm for quite some time now, but never took the effort to fix a few minor annoyances I had with it. Sure, you can manually remove that block (this is what I have been doing too), but even better is to configure PhpStorm so that block won't get generated at all.

Laravel Passport adds the capabilities as an OAuth2 server to your Laravel application, which manages how third party accessing to your application data. There are four things you need to know before you getting started with Laravel Passport.

The biggest list of laravel video tutorials from youtube in one place. They even have our QuickAdminPanel as a section/tag.

Gamifying your application is the process of adding game elements, such as user points and user achievements, inside your application. This will encourage your users to contribute and interact more in order to earn points and badges.

If you use Google, Facebook or another OAuth provider, you might have a difficult time setting up your local environment. That’s because they have some very strict rules about the Authorized Redirect URIs you can register with them. Google, for example, says:

Lots of hype has been for Google Firebase. PHP however, don’t have much support on the Google Firebase platform. Today, I will be sharing with you how easy it can be building a CRUD app using PHP and Firebase.

Recently I built a custom ecommerce SaaS platform for B2B-specific niche. The app was built using Laravel framework and allows users to create their own shows under the app subdomain (so-called multi-tenancy app).

Laravel is a free, open source PHP web application framework. It is built on top of several Symfony components, and provides a development framework that makes common tasks such as authentication, routing, sessions and caching much easier to implement.

Do you go full SPA or multi-page? If going multi-page how to you prefer to set it up? E: For SEO and a couple other reasons I've actually decided to go with jQuery. I will use Vue for certain isolated components that require better state management.

Localization in Laravel in it’s simplest term means changing the application’s default language to the language preferred by the user. In this article, we’ll walk through the process of implementing Localization in a very simple way.

The most visual and interactive way to learn Git on the web; you'll be challenged with exciting levels, given step-by-step demonstrations of powerful features, and maybe even have a bit of fun along the way.