Luke's Larabits

So, you want to jump into the world of testing? Or perhaps you're a seasoned PHPUnit dev...

Find yourself reusing the same custom helpers across all your Pest projects? Want to add something to...

It's been a little while since Laravel switched to Vite as it's default asset bundler. You might...

Laravel recently introduced a handy new Sleep class that serves as a drop-in replacement for PHP's sleep...

Livewire 3 is now in public beta, and the features on offer have me excited to start...

Livewire 3 ships with a shiny new plugin called Volt, allowing us to create single file components...

Pest 2.9 brings along with it a handful of spicy new features, from snapshots to type coverage...

First Class Callables were first introduced in PHP 8.1, but they're still quite rare to see in...

Responsive web design has been around for years now, but it was always limited by the fact...

Ever wondered what Laravel is all about? If you have 10 minutes, let's put together a simple...

Have you ever wondered what declare(strict_types=1) actually does when you include it at the top of a...

Everybody knows the CLI is ugly, right? Not anymore! Laravel prompts is a framework agnostic package for...

Laravel recently released Pulse, a lightweight monitoring tool designed to give you quick and useful insights into...

I recently purchased a new MacBook. Impressed as I was, I was equally amazed by how easy...

No, we're not talking about astronauts here! The spaceship operator in PHP allows you to drastically simplify...

The Vue team recently released version 3.4 of the framework. It contains two key features that will...

Alongside Laravel 11, the team released Reverb: a websocket server written in PHP. This makes it a...

As a self-taught developer, I avoided binary and bitwise operations for the longest time. In hindsight, I...

Sick and tired of forgetting to run npm run dev every time you open your project? Me...

Have you ever wanted to use inRandomOrder and paginate together in one Eloquent query? They seem to...

Every application eventually needs pruning - the act of cleaning up outdated database records. You may have...

You likely know that Laravel's Str::markdown() method allows you to effortlessly convert markdown to HTML, but did...

In a recent series of mine, we tackled a complex contribution to Open Source. However, more often...

Headlines and titles appear in almost every app you build. If you want to enforce a certain...

In Jeffrey's recent Larabit, he discussed the intermediate trap and how you can use actions to keep...

When you use Laravel's Cache class or facade, you also define a ttl, or time-to-live, that determines...

I'm back from speaking at Laracon US 2024! There was a real buildup of excitement for this...

At Laracon US, Nuno announced the release of the latest version of Pest PHP - version 3!...

The tools we use are often a black box - we know they work, but how or...

Have you ever wanted to measure the performance impact of changes to your application? Or maybe you...

As all developers do, I'm upgrading my blog. It's going great, but… well, I'm struggling with the...