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Speeding Up Dashboards - Laravel In Practice EP16

Every dashboard load hits your database—every chart, every metric, every time. In this episode, I show you how to cache your chart data smartly, with...

Charting with Chart.js - Laravel In Practice EP15

Your dashboard has all the data like revenue, orders, daily breakdowns. But staring at rows of numbers isn't exactly inspiring. In this episode, I sho...

Building a Dynamic Dashboard - Laravel In Practice EP14

Why struggle with JavaScript frameworks when Laravel Livewire lets you build fully interactive dashboards using only PHP? In this episode, learn how t...

Static Analysis Secrets - Laravel In Practice EP13

Type errors hiding in your Laravel code can slip past traditional tests and crash your app in production. Larastan, built on PHPStan, catches these is...

Modernizing Code with Rector - Laravel In Practice EP12

Tired of manually updating outdated code patterns across your Laravel project? Rector PHP automatically transforms your codebase to modern Laravel 12...

Cache Pre-warming Explained - Laravel In Practice EP11

Learn how to eliminate cold cache delays in Laravel by pre-warming your cache before users ever hit your app. This episode shows how to automate cache...

Laravel Fluent isEmpty and isNotEmpty Methods

Laravel's Fluent class now provides isEmpty and isNotEmpty methods for direct boolean checks on whether instances contain data, removing the need for...

Cache Smart Invalidation - Laravel In Practice EP10

Your cache is fast, but it's lying. Laravel's flexible cache creates three keys per entry - and if you only clear one, stale metadata lingers. In this...

Optimizing Queries with Memoization - Laravel In Practice EP9

Three identical cache calls is 24ms wasted. Cache::memo() stores results in memory during requests, turning repeated 8ms hits into instant lookups. El...

Boosting App Speed with Flexible Caching - Laravel In Practice EP8

Stop making users wait for cache rebuilds. Laravel 12's flexible caching serves instant responses with stale data while refreshing in the background....

Elevating SQL Efficiency - Laravel In Practice EP7

our PHP is doing database work. Loading 10,000 orders into memory to sum them up is like using Excel to count grains of rice. Move those calculations...

Laravel Strict Validation for Type Checking

Laravel's strict validation parameters for numeric, boolean, and integer rules enforce exact type matching rather than allowing PHP's type coercion, p...