PHP 7.3, Laracasts, AWS Deployment and Unit Tests

Free video from my course "Excel Export/Import in Laravel".

Let's take a break from PHP, and switch over to our recommended front-end workflow within a Laravel app. We'll do a crash-course on webpack, Laravel Mix, compiling CSS, and debugging your Vue components.

Because the web is stateless, we can use sessions as a mechanism for recording important user information from page to page. In this lesson, we'll review the basic sessions API and flash messaging. Finally, for extra credit, we'll review how to make Composer autoload a helpers.

Another new tool from Marcel Pociot, the man is on fire! Laravel Dusk Dashboard is a Laravel package that gives you a beautiful Dashboard for your Dusk test suites. It completely visualizes the individual steps that are involved when your Dusk tests are running, as well as DOM snapshots for each individual step.

I want to implement UUID on my Laravel 5.7 project. By default Laravel has provided great features in it, we can have authentication by just running simple command php artisan make:auth, then Laravel will provide these all for us.

This is an excerpt of the upcoming ebook Laravel Testing 101.

What is Wink? Wink is a free, open-source publishing platform built to run on any new or existing Laravel project. It comes with a clean and efficient admin panel and a familiar feeling WYSIWYG editor for creating content, but then how that content is displayed is entirely up to you.

Yesterday the PHP team released PHP 7.3.0 for general availability (GA) and marked the third feature update to PHP 7. You can download the latest version from the official PHP downloads page. You can also get all the nitty-gritty details about PHP 7.

PHP 7.2 added a warning when counting uncountable objects. The is_countable function can help prevent this warning. These two functions basically do what the name says.

A lot of small tips from Reddit users.

In this article, we will deploy a Laravel web application on Amazon Web Services and we will scale it across several instances. These instances will share a single MySQL database that will be deployed on the Amazon Relational Database Service(RDS).

Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service — BaaS — that started as a YC11 startup and grew up into a next-generation app-development platform on Google Cloud Platform.

Full length multi-part video courses on a topic that matters.

In this tutorial we’re going to expand the API we built in the previous tutorial to include authentication. By default Laravel includes authentication for session based authentication. Check it out by looking at the Laravel docs on authentication:

The lack of modification of mapping for existing fields is one of the drawbacks of the ElasticSearch. Once the mapping is created for a field, it is not possible to change it unless it has been reindexed.

I just finished the Laravel From Scratch series, and I'm curious about a few things they didn't cover.

Twilio Sync is a powerful API which allows us at Momentum, an online travel agency, to keep our dashboards up to date with its WebSockets entities. Pairing it with Laravel’s Broadcasting feature, however, gave us the ability to efficiently dispatch, queue, serialize and log our Twilio Sync calls from Laravel. In this post, I will walk you through how you can extend Laravel’s framework to make use of Twilio Sync natively.

Have you ever heard youself saying something like this in one of your projects? I know that it happened to me a lot of times! When I was given a task at my job, I would usually go and search for an available open-source package on packagist.

We will use the Cashier package to integrate Stripe Payment Gateway in Laravel. The demand for Saas based platform is increasing day by day and nowadays building a subscription-based system is universal.

Congratulations! You’ve finally written so many lines of code that you can afford a beach house. You hire Peter Keating, an architect world-famous for his skyscrapers, who assures you that he has brilliant plans for your beachfront property. Months later, you arrive at the grand unveiling.