Unconventional Laravel: Synchronous jobs for reusability
Code reusability is a big thing to consider when working on larger applications, but have you ever considered using synchronous jobs?
Published 1 week agoHello! I'm Ryan.
I'm a web developer, wannabe writer and space geek based in Essex, United Kingdom.
I currently work at Surewise where I build and maintain insurance systems.
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Unconventional Laravel: Auto-validating models
Join me as I go through some strange and unconventional things that you can do in your Laravel applications, starting with auto-validating Laravel models.
Published 1 week agoAdd Classes to Active Link in Laravel
Adding a class to make the current page "active" in your application's navigation is a simple UI improvement. Let me show you how I typically do this in my apps.
Published 1 week ago | Updated 1 week agoShare Data With Your Frontend in Laravel
Sharing data with your frontend doesn't need to be difficult, let's look at a couple of way of doing it.
Published 2 weeks ago | Updated 2 weeks agoManually Refreshing a Livewire Component
Livewire provides a clean API for automatically polling and refreshing a component, but what if you want to manually refresh a component?
Published 1 month ago | Updated 1 month agoClearer Time Values with Carbon
How often do you see something like `2 * 24 * 60 * 60` and wonder what that value actually represents and what those magical numbers mean? Don't worry, Carbon's constants are here to help you out.
Published 1 month ago | Updated 1 month agoGenerate an Array of Dates Using Carbon
I find myself needing to loop over an array of dates quite often for forms at work. It's surprisingly easy thanks to Carbon.
Published 1 month agoSimple Repositories in Laravel
Abstracting common queries in your Laravel applications can be done in many ways. Let's take a look at the simplest way using the "Repository pattern".
Published 1 month ago | Updated 1 month agoDirective precedence in Alpine
Lots of people get caught out by the fact that Alpine evaluates each directive in a particular order. Let's look at the order it uses,
Published 1 month ago | Updated 1 month agoHiding elements until Alpine loads with `x-cloak`
`x-cloak` can be used to hide elements until Alpine has initialised all components and has control of them.
Published 1 month ago | Updated 1 month agoMaintainable Alpine Components
Writing maintainable code is an important part of any software project. Let's take a look at some ways you can make your Alpine components more maintainable.
Published 1 month ago | Sponsors onlyTrack Your Users Last Activity in Laravel
It's quite common to keep tabs on when an authenticated user last used your web application. The information can be really useful when calculating software adoption, usage frequency and return rate.
Published 2 months ago | Updated 2 months agoAn Alternative Approach to Computed Properties in Alpine.js
I previously wrote about using functions as computed properties in Alpine, but what if there was a better way?
Published 2 months ago | Updated 2 months agoAnonymous Alpine Components
One of Alpine's main selling points is that it provides most of the reactive goodies that Vue and React do at a much lower cost. What if you don't need reactivity for your site? Well, Alpine can definitely still fit into your stack!
Published 2 months ago | Updated 2 months agoPseudo Computed Properties in Alpine
One feature that I love in Vue is computed properties. You access them in the same way as normal data properties, but you can dynamically generate the value. Let's take a look at how we can do this in Alpine.
Published 2 months ago | Updated 2 months agoGet an Array of Unique Values in JavaScript
PHP has a function to pull the unique values out of an array, but why doesn't JavaScript?
Published 3 months ago | Updated 2 months agoPrevent Updating or Saving of Laravel Models
Recently I've needed to disable particular methods and mutations on my Laravel models.
Published 3 months ago | Updated 1 month agoWhat is Alpine.js?
A brief look at the new Vue-inspired JavaScript framework, with no virtual DOM.
Published 3 months ago | Updated 2 months ago