Laravel Daily #66: Open-Source Money, MVPs and DB Settings

New video on Laravel Business channel. My thoughts on how to earn money if you have a Laravel package or other open-source software. With examples of real projects and people doing that.

By default, Laravel migration mechanism stores all the operations in database table migrations. Did you know that you can change it? I will show you how and why would you need it.

We’ve been asked quite a lot about using QuickAdmin for already existing project. It’s not straightforward but possible: time to write a mini-tutorial about it. Let’s imagine you already have a Laravel project, with proper front-end and database. And you want to build an adminpanel for it.

Looking through adminpanel generator packages, they usually have some kind of a manual or documentation. Our QuickAdmin doesn’t. And that’s a deliberate decision – here are the reasons why. Seriously. If you see documentation of 20+ pages or sections, you probably won’t read it.

REST APIs are useful for all kinds of apps. They can be the back-end to a front-end web app, they can store data for a mobile app, or they can provide services to other apps or APIs. There are a lot of moving pieces to coding a RESTful API, but having the right tools can make it a lot easier.

Queues are one of those tools in Laravel that everyone knows is there, but very few people understand deeply. It's understandable--Laravel is often the first place folks have run into queues, and to be honest, they're not simple.

A simple localization library built for Laravel to take all of the resources defined for your project and make them accessible in JavaScript.

I’ve had a great time at AWS re:Invent this week, attending sessions and hanging out with some of the ShootProof team. My favorite part of the week was the “mini con” on containers. I spent Thursday immersed in sessions dedicated to deploying Docker containers on AWS.

BotMan is a framework agnostic PHP library that is designed to simplify the task of developing innovative bots for multiple messaging platforms, including Slack, Telegram, Microsoft Bot Framework and Facebook Messenger.

Every two weeks I send out a newsletter containing lots of interesting stuff for the modern PHP developer. You can expect quick tips, links to interesting tutorials, opinions and packages.

Backpack for Laravel is a collection of packages which allows you to create admin panels for any web app quickly. It provides a set of useful packages divided into three categories that will make the process of creating a highly customizable admin panel easier.

With the explosion of Pokemon Go recently I had a brainwave and got excited one night enough to do something I haven’t done in years — and all night coding session!

Ok, so the other day I found myself having to deal some data in my favorite format — JSON. They were to be the source for a web application i’m tasked to build. I had just entered the Laravel universe and boy, it felt like home. Taylor Otwell did an amazing job with the framework.

One challenge every developer or development team faces is environment consistency. At some point in your career you might have had to deal with a situations where code deployed to your production environment doesn’t quite work as it did in your development environment.

I recently launched a small product for Amazon Affiliates built with Laravel. At the heart of the application is a referral system. Users get bonus credits when they refer another user while getting recurring credit every time their referral uses the site.

Now $items will be a collection containing two items. The first is a collection of items that passed the callback, and the second for the ones that did not. This method is available starting at v5.3.27 and you can run composer update to get the latest.

I really like how much productivity a web developer gains by switching from compiled languages like Java or C# to an interpreted one like PHP.

We’re all concerned about maximizing what we can do in a day. Case in point: there are thousands, possibly millions,…