Paul Redmond

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

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Solo Dumps for Laravel

The Solo Dumps package for Laravel is a console command that intercepts dump() calls from your Laravel application and displays them in a dedicated te...

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Configuring Middleware in Laravel

If you are maintaining Laravel 10 applications or earlier, learn how using middleware has changed from earlier versions to Laravel 12, the latest vers...

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Create Self-Contained PHP Executables with PHPacker

PHPacker enables you to package any PHP script or PHAR into a standalone, cross-platform executable. It handles all the complexity of bundling PHP wit...

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Simple Cookie Consent Package for Laravel

The Laravel Cookie Guard package provides a simple cookie consent window through which users can specify the cookies they want to allow.

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JSON Unicode Cast Type Added in Laravel 12.3

The Laravel team released v12.3.0, which includes a new JSON Unicode cast type, check linked storage status in the "artisan about" command, native JSO...

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Laravel Socialite Plus

Socialite Plus is a Laravel 12 React and Vue starter kit package that streamlines social login for Google, Facebook, GitHub, and LinkedIn.

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Laravel 12.2 Introduces Custom Starter Kits

The Laravel team released v12.2.0 this week, along with an update to the Laravel installer that supports community starter kits.

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Access Management in Filament With the Shield Plugin

The Filament Shield package adds access management to your Filament panels, resources, pages, and widgets.

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Control Hardware Components in Laravel with Pinout

Pinout is a Laravel package that bridges the gap between web applications and hardware, enabling developers to control hardware components directly fr...

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Seamless Document Conversion in Laravel With Docswap

Doxswap is a Laravel package for seamless document conversion using LibreOffice. It effortlessly converts DOCX, PDF, ODT, and more with a simple, eleg...

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Flux 2.0 Livewire UI Kit

Flux 2.0 brings advanced components like date pickers, calendars, charts, and more. These components are built lean and dependency-free by the creator...

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Temporary Context Scope in Laravel 12.1

The Laravel team tagged Laravel v12.1.0, which includes a context scope method, an Arr::partition() method, a getRawSql() method on query exception in...

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