May 7, 2020 — Lately, if you’ve been working on some functionality and you want to extract it as a Laravel package, you’d like to first test it locally. And if everything is well and good, you’d then publish it to the packagist.org.

May 6, 2020 — The usual way of using a React element is to first import it and then utilize it inside of an another React component like so.

May 4, 2020 — When PHP 7.0 released, it has added many nice things in PHP’s toolbelt of utilities. One of the things among this was Null coalescing assignment operator (??).

May 4, 2020 — If you look at PHP’s core helper functions, they aren’t very intuitive to use and are pretty inconsistent at times. For instance, the array_map function is used to apply the callback to the elements of the given arrays. Here’s how its definition looks like.

April 29, 2020 — Facades, in Laravel, is basically a way of using Laravel’s classes without injecting them into the constructor of the class in which you want to use them.

April 27, 2020 — Laravel Blade comes with many in-built directives such as @section, @yield, @parent, @json and several others, all of which have a certain purpose attached to them.

April 26, 2020 — In this article, I’ve written about how to use event subscribers or observer pattern in Laravel.

April 24, 2020 — The Observer design pattern is one of the twenty-three well-known “Gang of Four” design patterns that describe how to solve recurring design problems to design flexible and reusable object-oriented software, that is, objects that are easier to implement, change, test, and reuse.

April 23, 2020 — Sending emails in Laravel is a breeze. All you have to do is, configure your default mail service in config/mail.php and it’s related configuration in config/services.php file.

April 22, 2020 — The blog that you’re on right now is built using Jekyll. So, the other day, I was looking for a way to make images clickable. If you’ve worked with Jekyll previously, you might be knowing that the classic way to insert an image in Jekyll is to use the following Markdown markup like so.