Seeders are a great way of creating fixture data, as well as dummy data, for your development environment. Let me show you how we can make them even better.

Let me show how to quickly delete all rows for a Laravel model.

Have you ever used a service provider to set a default value for a third-party library? Have you ever done this based on the current request or URL? Have you ever considered doing this inside of middleware instead?

Laravel makes use of the internal Pipeline class and it's more common in userland too, but have you ever considered tidying up these pipeline processes with custom pipeline classes?

When 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?

Code reusability is a big thing to consider when working on larger applications, but have you ever considered using synchronous jobs?

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.

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.

Sharing data with your frontend doesn't need to be difficult, let's look at a couple of way of doing it.

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".

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.