September 22, 2021
Never use model calls inside of migrations in Laravel
One of the strong features of Laravel is its database migrations system, if you don’t know what migrations are, you can read more about it here, but basically, it’s a way to define your database...
ReadAugust 19, 2020
Create a generator "make" command in Laravel
In this post, I wanna show you how to create a class generator command in a very clean, Laravel-y way, if that didn't ring a bell, it's like the artisan make:* commands, let's dive in....
August 16, 2020
Setup Logrotate with Laravel for worry-less logs
It's 2 in the morning, you're deep asleep enjoying dreams of squishy marshmallows, your phone chimes, you recognize the sound, it's Sentry, production is down. Shit. You quickly read the email...
ReadMarch 27, 2020
Implementing multi-guard authentication in Laravel
I wanna touch on something that I've been wanting to for a long time, and that is multi-guard authentication in Laravel. In the past when I'd write an app that has both normal users and admin users,...
ReadOctober 20, 2019
Implement hot swapping service-drivers in your Laravel app.
We've all wondered at some point or another how does Laravel implement swapping of services like the database driver just by editing a config value? I've touched a little bit on this topic in this...
ReadSeptember 15, 2019
A flexible way to generate permissions for resources.
For every app that requires managing roles and permissions, there's this problem of how do I generate and seed all the needed roles and permissions on every deployment, I'm gonna show you a neat way...
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