Steve McDougall

Technical writer at Laravel News, Developer Advocate at Treblle. API specialist, veteran PHP/Laravel engineer. YouTube livestreamer.

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VS Code Extension for API Insights

Treblle releases a VS Code extension for API Insights, a free tool to assess your OpenAPI Specifications. The tool scrutinizes API performance, qualit...

Meet Aspen: Speedier & Smarter API Testing, Outshining Postman and Insomnia

Treblle launched Aspen, a lightweight Mac app that is an alternative to Postman or Insomnia.

How to structure Laravel apps

Steve McDougall, Brent Roose, and Bobby Bouwmann joined in to discuss structuring Laravel applications.

API Authentication in Laravel

When it comes to Authentication in Laravel, there are a lot of options. But what should we use when it comes to authenticating your API?

Diving into Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

Learn how to harness the power of Laravel CORS in this tutorial. Discover what it is and unlock its potential for seamless cross-origin resource shari...

Working with third party services in laravel

A little over two years ago, I wrote a tutorial on how you should work with third-party APIs. Things have changed in two years, so let's approach this...

Laravel Security Middleware

Middleware isn't something new we have been using it in our applications for a while now for various usages, from Authentication, to Authorization and...

Small but powerful CLI apps with Minicli

Building CLI applications can be a lot of fun. We don't have to worry about the UI, and we can write beautiful PHP code that doesn't need any build st...

Using attributes to add value

PHP Attributes were added in version 8.0 of the language, and it has been a misnomer for many developers. What are their benefits, and how can I use t...

Going past Actions in Laravel

Over the last year or so, the Action based approach has been gaining popularity in the Laravel world. I was a big fan of this and adopted it relativel...

Let's talk about Form Requests

Form Requests are best known for validation logic that will pre-validate for you. They are fantastic, and I lean on them heavily all the time.

Pest Architecture Plugin

With the release of PestPHP v2, we can now test the architecture of our applications. In this tutorial, we will walk through how to use this plugin.