Caching Strategies In Laravel: An overview of the best ways to add caching to...
I think of caching as one of those double-edged swords in PHP application development. On one hand, caching strategies can offer considerable gains in performance. On the other hand, those gains may...
View ArticleNuxt: Superpowers for your Vue 3 application
Are you searching for a way to enhance the speed of your Vue application development? Let me introduce you to Nuxt, a framework for constructing Vue applications. Initially envisioned as a counterpart...
View ArticleState management in Vue 3: Why you should try out Pinia
They say there are two difficult things in programming: naming things and cache invalidation. I would add one more to the list: state management in modern web applications! Today, we'll delve into...
View ArticleHusky: How to automatically format, lint and test before you commit or push
When a team works on a project, keeping the codebase up to coding standards might be challenging. Perhaps a team member submits code that deviates from the established coding style, or you make a...
View ArticleForm Validation with Type Inference Made Easy with Zod, the Best Sidekick for...
Server-side validation is a must, but client-side validation is also crucial: when a user attempts to submit a form, providing instant feedback and highlighting the fields with invalid data can be an...
View ArticleUse HTMX to Create Laravel Single-Page Apps Without Writing JavaScript
Sometimes, the landscape of front-end development can seem overwhelming. Should I use React? Svelte? Livewire? Vue? And TypeScript? And a state manager, and maybe a meta-framework? Transpilers,...
View ArticleOptimistic UI Tricks for Livewire and Alpine
There's been a lot of debate in the last few weeks on the merits of building web apps with HTML-over-the-wire vs. using popular JavaScript libraries like Vue and React, and how that choice affects the...
View ArticleHiring Taylor Otwell to build HelpSpot and Laravel at the same time | Ian...
In our very first episode, Matt had the pleasure of speaking with Ian Landsman, affectionately known as the 'Godfather of Laravel,' where they discussed his long history with Laravel and his business...
View ArticleFrom Terrible Employee to Open Source Entrepreneur: Caleb Porzio's Playbook |...
In this week's episode of the Business of Laravel podcast, host Matt Stauffer talks with Caleb Porzio, a prominent figure in the Laravel community and the creator of Livewire and Alpine.js. Caleb...
View ArticleCtrl+Alt+Del — How I Force Quit My Old Career and Started Coding
We’ve all heard it: at some point, life will hand you lemons, and your task is to turn them into lemonade. But people don't tell you that sometimes you just end up with heartburn, wondering why you...
View ArticleHow Aaron Francis Turned a Layoff Into a Thriving Educational Empire | Aaron...
In this episode of the Business of Laravel podcast, host Matt Stauffer interviews Aaron Francis, co-founder of Try Hard Studios, beloved Internet personality, Laravel developer, and all-around...
View ArticleGrowing Into a Leadership Role, and Pairing With Strangers | Ben Holmen, CTO...
In this episode of the Business of Laravel podcast, host Matt Stauffer sits down with Ben Holmen, CTO of the Boutique Hub, a community of boutique owners and brands dedicated to strengthening small...
View ArticleHow to Automatically Generate Dynamic Open Graph Images for All Your Jigsaw...
You just published an amazing post on your blog and are ready to share it with the world when you remember you need to create an Open Graph (OG) image for it. You open Photoshop, thinking, "There has...
View ArticleFrom MySQL to Typesense: Blazing-Fast Full-Text Search in Laravel
Search is everywhere: Finding the nearest gas station, looking up a tutorial on YouTube, or searching for an old message in a chat ... in-app search is there to help us quickly find what we’re looking...
View ArticleFrom Passion Project to Profitable Business as a Married Couple | Michele and...
In this episode of the Business of Laravel podcast, host Matt Stauffer interviews Michele and Mathias Hansen, the founders of Geocodio, a SaaS that provides hassle-free geocoding, built with Laravel....
View ArticleContinuous Deployment and Continuous People Growth | Greg Skerman, DoT at...
In this episode of the Business of Laravel podcast, Matt Stauffer interviews Greg Skerman, Director of Technology at iseekplant, Australia’s leading online construction marketplace. They discuss...
View ArticleGetting Started with Twill, an Open Source Laravel-Based CMS
How do companies like OpenAI, The New York Times, Pentagram, and the Art Institute of Chicago manage their brand identity when publishing content online? They all use the same powerful and flexible...
View ArticleThe Power Behind the UK’s No. 1 Platform for Parents | Matthew Davis, CTO at...
In this episode of the Business of Laravel Podcast, Matt Stauffer sits down with Matthew Davis, the CTO of Mumsnet, a leading social platform for parents in the UK. They discuss Mumsnet's full-scale...
View ArticleStrategic Leadership: The Importance of Saying No | Chris Morrell, CEO of...
In this episode of the Business of Laravel Podcast, Matt Stauffer sits down with Chris Morrell, the CEO and CTO of InterNACHI, the largest trade organization for residential and commercial property...
View ArticleBoring Tech, Bold Results | Jon Behr, VP of Engineering at FM
In this episode of the Business of Laravel Podcast, Matt Stauffer sits down with Jon Behr, VP of Engineering at FM, to discuss his journey into the company and FM's use of Laravel. FM operates three...
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