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?
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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.
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