Heroku as died, long live the free alternatives — Heroku these past days was in hot waters for one simple reason: a place to go for hosting small projects for free was moving to paid plans exclusively. Most developers had to look for an alternative home for their small projects. I was just planning to mount Larawiz, my online…

No need to let the connection go from your server — Most of you who use the HTTP Client included in Laravel tend to be wary of doing multiple requests to a server. The most common problem is paying the connection overhead over and over again, so normally you will want to make request only when necessary and cache the response…

The session won’t help you make things easier — One of the projects I worked on had small but important problematic: users should be able to manage multiple subscriptions through my on-premises Subscriptions library. GitHub - Laragear/Subscriptions: Subscriptions on-premises, without any payment system! Manage subscriptions on-premises, without any payment systems! Become a Sponsor and get instant access to this package…github.com

Is the developer out of touch? No, is the framework who is wrong… — There are two ways to hook into an Eloquent Model Event: using your Model boot and registering a callback for a given event name, or registering an Observer. For small tasks, going for a simple callback is enough. You can even do it in your Eloquent Model traits and call…

Out with the old geezer SQL. In the new way to use a database. — The big news some weeks ago was SurrealDB reaching a relative stable version 1.0 and beta public release. At time of writing this is still on beta, and there are some features and documentation missing, but given what the guys behind SurrealDB promised (and delivered), seems like the age of…

Clean and testable code, and even order-free! — Most of you have been confronted with a series of steps or “actions” that must run in order to accomplish one single task. This is usually normal in the world of computing, and it’s no shame to have a method somewhere calling other methods in succession. The thing about this…

From the obvious, to the guilty misconceptions — To me, the first and most important part to create an application is to know what to save, and how to save it. SQL Databases are the most used, battle-tested, and mature of all solutions around the web, and even embedded devices. For that reason alone, I wanted to share…

In other words, making your faster and predictable — Testing a Laravel application is not something that is slow. Indeed, the recommendation is always to test your app with the application fully booted if your object request something from it. The problem is that, even if you’re using a single helper function or Facade as part of your logic…

There is more to just a Route::get() call — For some folks in Laravel, registering a route during the application execution is not necessary, let alone useless. The recommended way to register all the application routes is by declaring them inside the routes/web.php or routes/api.php files, as the documentation says. Sometimes, you may need to create one “on demand”…