2021 – year in review
The year 2022 has just started, so it's a good moment to reflect on the previous year. I look thankf...
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Great new PHP 8.1 features: enums, readonly & more (2021)
The latest big version of PHP was released less than a month ago. It brought some great features tha...
Laravel Livewire for Beginners – Full 2021 Guide
If you've been coding with Laravel for some time, you must have heard about the 'magical' Laravel Li...
How to test Laravel notification e-mail contents
In this tutorial I'll show you how to test the content of notifications in Laravel. This is particul...
Test how many times a Laravel Notification was sent
Until a few months ago I barely did any automated testing on the code I wrote. That changed after I....
How to keep Laravel Horizon active with a cron job (New package)
Laravel Horizon is a great tool for managing and monitoring your Redis queues in Laravel. It allows....
Laravel Eloquent relationships for beginners - Full 2023 Guide
Laravel Eloquent is one of the flagship features of the Laravel framework. In part that is also than...
How to manage DateTime with Carbon in Laravel & PHP
At some point, almost every Laravel application needs to work with dates and times. But managing dat...
Laravel Eloquent for Beginners | Full guide (2021)
Laravel Eloquent is one of Laravel's flagship features and one of the most notable things that disti...
Laravel Databases & Migrations for Beginners (2021)
Laravel provides a whole bunch of tools to interact with your application's database. The most impor...
How to solve Composer PHP memory exhausted issue in 30 seconds (2021)
Nothing is more irritating than software that should just work, whilst it doesn't. One of those hi...
How to use Browsersync with Laravel Valet (2021)
If you're a developer in the PHP world, it's likely that you've come across Laravel Valet. Laravel V...
How to validate Laravel user input for beginners (2021)
Laravel is by far the most popular PHP framework, due to its enormous flexibility, awesome community...
How to use Tailwind CSS v2.1 JIT compiler with WordPress theme (2021)
Tailwind CSS is an awesome way of writing CSS – it completely transformed the way I write CSS. In th...
How to rollback the latest Laravel database migration(s)
Building Laravel database migrations that are good right away is hard – especially for beginners. Th...
How to apply .gitignore to an existing Git repository
Git is an awesome tool to track the version history of your files and to collaborate on software dev...
How to uninstall Homebrew on macOS – Full Guide (2021)
Homebrew is a great tool to manage packages on macOS. However, there might come a moment that you wa...
How to install Homebrew on macOS – Full guide (2021)
Homebrew is a great way to manage packages on macOS. Arguably it is one of the best package managers...
How to switch between Node.js versions with Homebrew (2021)
Homebrew is an awesome tool for installing and managing packages installed on macOS. It is also the....
How to download your deployed Netlify builds
I'm just beginning to discover Netlify, but I really enjoy the platform. Did you know that Netlify a...
How to use GitHub Actions with webhooks & API endpoints
GitHub Actions is a great tool for every developer. It can be easily incorporated in your developmen...
How to check your Laravel database connection
Laravel is a great framework for rapid application building. It allows you to easily connect to a da...
How to use Tailwind CSS v2.1 JIT compiler with Laravel Mix
Last week Tailwind CSS released version 2.1.0. One of the best features of the release is the fact t...
How to use DBngin & TablePlus for local development
DBngin is very handy and lightweight application to get MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis databases on you...
How to allow only positive integers in HTML number input elements
I recently found myself in the situation where I was using an HTML number input element, but where...