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.
A collection of tutorials, thoughts and brain dumps.
One of jQuery's most powerful and popular features is the `slide` helpers and lots of people would like to replicate these in Alpine, so let's take a look at how we can do just that.
Published 2 days ago | Updated 2 days agoWhen registering grouped routes using `Route::group()`, it's normal to register those nested routes using the `Route` facade, but have you ever used the `$router` variable?
Published 4 weeks ago | Updated 2 weeks agoCode reusability is a big thing to consider when working on larger applications, but have you ever considered using synchronous jobs?
Published 1 month agoJoin 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 month agoAdding 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 month ago | Updated 1 month agoSharing data with your frontend doesn't need to be difficult, let's look at a couple of way of doing it.
Published 1 month ago | Updated 1 month agoLivewire provides a clean API for automatically polling and refreshing a component, but what if you want to manually refresh a component?
Published 2 months ago | Updated 2 months agoHow 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 2 months ago | Updated 2 months agoI find myself needing to loop over an array of dates quite often for forms at work. It's surprisingly easy thanks to Carbon.
Published 2 months agoAbstracting 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 2 months ago | Updated 2 months agoLots 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 2 months ago | Updated 2 months ago`x-cloak` can be used to hide elements until Alpine has initialised all components and has control of them.
Published 2 months ago | Updated 2 months agoWriting 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 2 months ago | Sponsors onlyIt'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 3 months ago | Updated 2 months agoI previously wrote about using functions as computed properties in Alpine, but what if there was a better way?
Published 3 months ago | Updated 2 months agoOne 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 3 months ago | Updated 2 months agoOne 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 3 months ago | Updated 2 months agoPHP has a function to pull the unique values out of an array, but why doesn't JavaScript?
Published 4 months ago | Updated 2 months agoRecently I've needed to disable particular methods and mutations on my Laravel models.
Published 4 months ago | Updated 2 months agoA brief look at the new Vue-inspired JavaScript framework, with no virtual DOM.
Published 4 months ago | Updated 2 months ago