Live Refactoring, Charts, Spatie Library + more Tricks

One free lesson from course "How to Structure Laravel Project".

Introducing my new package, created for internal needs of QuickAdminPanel generator, but may be useful to the community, too, so decided to release it as open-source thing.

Spatie Laravel MediaLibrary is one of the most popular Laravel packages, with almost million downloads. But have you read all of its documentation, with all the features? Let’s dive in. In general, I notice that developers rarely read FULL documentation of the packages.

Laravel Auth system has a lot of features, but it doesn’t include suspending users for some time, like banning some angry forum user for 14 days to calm down. Luckily, it’s easy to implement, with Middleware. This article will show you how.

I know the title sounds unclear, so let me start with an example. What would be your Eloquent query if you have birth_date field in DB an want to show how many of your users are adult 18+ years, and how many are still children? Let’s take a look.

Laravel validation system is great, including auto-populating error messages. But what if you want to override the names of the :attribute parameter values? Here’s a simple example.

I'm excited to announce that my new course ”PHP Package Development” is now available! Learn all about @laravelphp and generic PHP package creation in over 30 lessons!

I recently purchased a course called “PHP Package Development” by @marcelpociot. The course was really good. If you are interested in package development for Laravel apps, I highly recommend it. After completing the course I decided to take a stab at developing a package.

Tutorial where we will work on an existing Laravel project.

In this article, I would like to show you how you can use Angular instead of Vue as your modern javascript library (yes, I know only Vue is a mere library, while Angular is our powerhouse framework).

I have a standard User model with a few hundred users in my database. Now I want to add another model (Experience) to my Laravel app. Every User object should have an Experience Object associated with it.

It is time for a change in the tools that I use. And I’ll tell you why! First of all, I want to make sure that you know about my intentions. I am not trying to rant about Laravel or why other frameworks might be better.

We left off building a real users endpoint and learned about a new way to fetch component data with Vue router in part 3. Now we’re ready to move our attention to creating CRUD functionality for our users—this tutorial will focus on editing existing users.

Are you switching from PHP Storm, Web Storm or Sublime? I personally love JetBrains’ IDEs and of course Sublime is amazing. I used both of them for many years now. But when ever I go online I look at people’s working on Visual Studio Code everywhere.

This article explains the basic concepts of the command bus. Why should you use it and how? Pointers are given to advanced use cases and good resources. A command is an object that signals an intent, like RegisterUser. The command is passed to the command bus.

Starting in Laravel 5.8, as long as policies and models are in the conventional locations, you will not need to register them in the AuthServiceProvider class: In Laravel 5.

An enumeration type, "enum" for short, is a data type to categorise named values. Enums can be used instead of hard coded strings to represent, for example, the status of a blog post in a structured and typed way. PHP doesn't have a native enum type.

What are your suggestions? The only one I have enjoyed and repeated so far is "Never write custom actions" by Adam Wathan. I'm sure there could be others, but the lack of summaries/ titles on the videos make it hard to find more gems.

Basically wondering what use cases there are for using Doctrine instead of things like Eloquent which follows the rails Active Record pattern? If I googled right, the key is that Doctrine is best for things that involve multiple transactions in your queries?

Laravel Tinker Server is a package by Marcel Pociot that enables you to tinker with your variables in real-time while working on your Laravel app. This package collects data via calls to a tinker() helper that ships with the package and allow you to then interact with those variables on the fly.

A significant part of what we do at Smartbnb is automating messaging between hosts and guests on Airbnb and HomeAway/VRBO. Messages that our system captures from the two platforms are stored in separate tables.

I have seen many noob developers (and uninformed clients) opt for shared hosting. And, the results have generally been similar: problems in app deployment and slow performance and page load speed for all users. Developers opt to deploy Laravel on shared hosting for one reason – cost saving.

The Repository Pattern in Laravel is a very useful pattern with a couple of great uses. The first use is the abstraction that it provides. Meaning, it adds another layer between your application logic and your database. Spread the word! Share with your fellow developers.

With this package you can translate your language files using a translator service. Currently the package ships only with Google Translate. Specify a source language and a target language and it will automatically translate your files.

This is a quick tip post about a nice way to format your validation errors when working with a Laravel API. While the above is a pretty sensible default format, it might be inconsistent with the rest of your API and thus cause confusion with your API consumers.

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).

Well, this took me close to a month, with a couple of sleepless nights and a few drops of tears on being asked about the status of the task, since I was very new to Laravel.

Developers tend to spectacularly underestimate the effort involved in such a rewrite (more on that below), and spectacularly overestimate the value generated (more on that below, as well).

We know everyone has their own tooling and workflow preferences, which is why we’re excited to unveil our latest release: user owned project boards.

A checklist for all projects that are going live. This checklist is used whenever a project is going live at https://spatie.be

Power of getting up very early, at 4-5am. This week 3yr old daughter was ill and stayed at home all week, meanwhile wife worked full-time. Without grandparents/aunties/nannies, I still managed to squeeze in 32 hours of work this week, according to my RescueTime (see image attached).

Whenever I read Laracasts forum, I'm fascinated how developers do things in certain way only they can understand, and then try looking for help on forums so someone would understand their messed up code. Many times code samples in questions just beg to be rewritten from zero.

"I'm almost done, there's just small piece to refactor and I will push the code soon" - famous last words by every developer ever.

Noticed I quite often click Cmd+S while browsing in Chrome. Weird developer habit.

I'm still amazed how many questions developers ask me (and generally online on forums) when they can find answer in the official documentations, just too "lazy" to read to that Page 9 or scroll down a few times.

With every project I work on, more and more I realize value of a project manager. Cause team of developers, especially remote, especially with non-tech clients, can do MAGIC, both in good and bad sense.