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Why Your Livewire Dashboard Jumps (And How to Fix It) - Laravel In Practice EP18

Your real-time dashboard updates, but every new order makes the whole page jump. In this episode, I show you how to combine Livewire's skipRender with...

Fuse for Laravel: A Circuit Breaker Package for Queue Jobs

Prevent queue workers from grinding to a halt when external services fail. Fuse for Laravel implements the circuit breaker pattern, letting jobs fail...

Automate Laravel Herd Worktrees with This Claude Code Skill

A new Claude Code skill that automates git worktree setup for Laravel Herd projects, perfect for handling environment configuration, depen...

Going Real-Time with Reverb - Laravel In Practice EP17

Your dashboard is fast, but users still hit refresh to see new data. In this episode, I show you how to add real-time updates with Laravel Reverb and...

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Tired of manually updating outdated code patterns across your Laravel project?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...