October 13, 2020 — Recently, I happened to install the Laravel Envoy library in my Linux-powered machine. Now, if you don’t know, Envoy is a task runner that can be used to define and run common tasks on your remote (and local) servers. You can set up tasks for your application deployment such as Git commands, artisan commands, and a lot of other CLI-based things.

October 12, 2020 — You know if you want to pass data to the views, you can do it while defining routes or from controllers like so.

October 5, 2020 — In one of my articles, I’ve explained how you can extend class behavior using macros in Laravel.

October 3, 2020 — One of the standard ways to resolve dependencies in Laravel is by using service container. Essentially, if you want to inject something which can be swappable anytime, you can do this by “biding” that into the service container.

September 28, 2020 — PHP 8 is around the corner and it is coming packed with a lot of new features. But there’s something exciting cooking in PHP 8.1 already.

September 24, 2020 — Laravel, as a framework, has grown slowly but strongly since its inception and so is its ecosystem. The ecosystem here is all the packages/products that are built by the Laravel team which revolves around the original Laravel framework. This includes open-source packages and premium/paid products.

September 23, 2020 — One of the handiest features of Laravel is the ability to dispatch Closures to queues. This is because you don’t always need to create a job class for simple tasks such as sending emails.

September 22, 2020 — The standard way of including files in modern PHP development is using namespaces and autoloading of classes using Composer.

September 19, 2020 — Sometimes there comes a scenario when you might want to pull the composer package’s GitHub repository as the composer package itself. This can be useful in situations where you want to upgrade something but because one of the dependencies is still not compatible with the current version of the software.

September 18, 2020 — Laravel 8’s class-based model factories are great and I’ve written an entire article about what they are and how they are more feature-rich and useful than the traditional factories that we used to write prior to Laravel 8.