In this tutorial we're going to learn how you can unit test your Laravel artisan commands so that you can make sure they're doing exactly what you expect them to do. When unit testing it's important t...
Like any profession a developers tools are important, they help us be more productive. When speaking to any developer you always have the tools and setup debate, what computer you use, what IDE do you...
In this tutorial we're going to learn how you can create different configuration files to be used on your VueJS/Laravel application depending on which environment you're working in. If you're working...
When it comes to validation in Laravel there are several ways you can go about this. In this tutorial we're going to investigate the different ways you can achieve this in Laravel and I'll go through...
When using Homestead with your Laravel projects there are two approaches you can take with it. You can either install Homestead globally and use all your sites on a single Homestead virtual machine or...
Homestead is a package you can use in your Laravel development to create a local development environment for your application with all the services installed you can use to improve the workflow of you...
In this tutorial we're going to learn how we can create a VueJS component for a contact form and create a Laravel API Endpoint that will send the message from the contact form. VueJS Contact Component...
This is one of my favourite features of Laravel routing and one of the features I see most underused, it's the model binding on the router. Let's think about the standard route you will create for say...
The Laravel debug package is always the first package I install when starting a new Laravel project. This makes it so easy to debug any performance problems you have in your application. It provides a...
Command line scripts can be a big benefit to your application, they're a great way to automate certain tasks or make it easy to get your application up and running quickly. Maybe you have a create tes...
In this tutorial we're going to learn how we can install code sniffer and a fixer to help us keep to a coding standard. Coding standards are a set of rules that your code must follow, having consisten...
In this tutorial we're going to use a VueJS component to easily add a tags input box to a form. You may use this input type in situations like creating tags for a blog post. It will allow you to add m...
Building email list is very important. It is the very essence of ‘grass-root’ marketing that will pay off over a long period of time. However, one thing is sure, effective lead building is frustrating...
Over the past year I've been doing a lot of work on creating RESTful APIs, from the experience of creating APIs I've learnt a few things that you should try to include on API's you create. In this tut...
In this tutorial we're going to learn how to use Font-awesome in our Laravel projects while using webpack and mix to compile our assets to use on the front-end. Install Font-Awesome First you need to...