Paul Redmond

Staff writer at Laravel News. Full stack web developer and author.

Add Comments to your Laravel Application with the Commenter Package image

Add Comments to your Laravel Application with the Commenter Package

The Commenter package for Laravel is a feature-rich modern package that addresses your commenting needs in a Laravel application.

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Take the Annual State of Laravel 2024 Survey

Take the State of Laravel 2024 survey to contribute your voice to the Laravel community. By sharing and participating, you can help us gain more insig...

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Upload Files Using Filepond in Livewire Components

If you're using Livewire, now you can easily use Filepond to upload files within Livewire components using Spatie's livewire-filepond package.

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Visual EXPLAIN for MySQL and Laravel

The MySQL Visual Explain by Tobias Petry helps users analyze slow queries in MySQL by providing an easy-to-understand visual representation of MySQL’s...

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API Versioning in Laravel 11

Learn how to version your API in a new Laravel 11 project using the updated application skeleton.

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A Resize Plugin for Alpine.js

Caleb Porzio, creator of Alpine.js, just released a resize plugin that allows you to react easily when an element changes. This is useful for custom s...

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Generics Added to Eloquent Builder in Laravel 11.15

The Laravel team released v11.15 this week, which includes improvements to the make:mail command, support for setting mime types on attachments with R...

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Manage Roles and Permissions in Filament with Hex Lite

Filament Hexa Lite is an effortless role and permission plugin for Filament. The plugin provides an admin-only UI to manage different user roles.

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Laravel Error Solutions on the Default Exception Page

The Laravel Error Solutions package by Spatie brings back solutions for the most common errors users face to the default Laravel error page.

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New String Helpers and ServeCommand Improvements in Laravel 11.14 image

New String Helpers and ServeCommand Improvements in Laravel 11.14

The Laravel team released v11.13 mid-week last week and v11.14 this week. These releases add new string methods like chopStart() and chopEnd(), Common...

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Build Tables Based on Eloquent Models with Inertia Table

Inertia Table is the ultimate table for Inertia.js that makes is super easy to build tables based on your Eloquent models. Pass a model and let Inerti...

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Artisan `make` Commands Automatically Chop `.php` Extension in Laravel 11.12 image

Artisan `make` Commands Automatically Chop `.php` Extension in Laravel 11.12

This week, the Laravel team released v11.12, which includes a multiply collection method, automatically chopping the .php extension in make:* commands...

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