PinnedMade a Laravel app in 1 minute, in my phoneNo installs, no downloads, its pure magic, and you can do it too — One of the things that start to take its toll when creating simple prototypes or small projects is the setting up the kitchen sink: creating the migrations, syncing up the models, each model attributes and properties, setting up the factories and seeders, shoving traits here and there… I think you…Laravel4 min readLaravel4 min read
PinnedHosting Laravel for freeHeroku 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…Laravel8 min readLaravel8 min read
Oct 12Laravel: Reusing a HTTP/2 connectionNo 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. …PHP4 min readPHP4 min read
Oct 10Laravel: Scoping queries in the URLThe 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.comPHP4 min readPHP4 min read
Oct 10Laravel: Are Observers really evil?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…PHP5 min readPHP5 min read
Oct 4SurrealDB wants to be the future of SQLOut 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. …Programming6 min readProgramming6 min read
Oct 3Laravel: When to use Pipelines? How to test them?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…PHP7 min readPHP7 min read
Sep 26Laravel: 10 tips for your new databaseFrom 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…Software Development7 min readSoftware Development7 min read
Sep 24Laravel: Testing without booting the appIn 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…PHP4 min readPHP4 min read
Sep 19Laravel: Fixing “Route not found”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”…Laravel4 min readLaravel4 min read
