Paul Redmond

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

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The June 2024 Laravel Worldwide Meetup is Today

The next Laravel Worldwide Meetup is today, featuring Katerina Trajchevska and Felipe Flor. The meetup begins live on YouTube at 16:00 UTC.

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A Lightweight Cart Package for Laravel

The binafy/laravel-cart package adds the ability to add shopping cart functionality to Laravel applications. It simplifies storing and managing cart i...

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SQLite Studio is a SQLite Database Explorer

SQLite Studio is a single-file binary, single-command SQLite database explorer.

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Running a Single Test, Skipping Tests, and Other Tips and Tricks

Inspired by Pest creator Nuno Maduro's post about the ->only() method in PestPHP, I've collected tips and tricks for PHP developers to efficiently iso...

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View Third-party Relations in model:show - Now Available in Laravel 11.11

This week, the Laravel team released v11.11, with support for third-party relations in the model:show command, new Collection methods, Cache events, a...

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Asserting a JSON Response Structure in Laravel

Learn how you can test the JSON structure of responses in Laravel using powerful JSON assertion methods available in Laravel's TestResponse class.

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Create a DateTime from a Timestamp With this New Method Coming to PHP 8.4

Creating a DateTime from a Unix timestamp will be more convenient in PHP 8.4 with the new createFromTimestamp() method.

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Neovim Plugin to for Navigating Laravel and Livewire Components

LALI Components is a Neovim plugin for autocompletion of Laravel and Livewire components by community member Ricardo Ramirez.

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Share Error Package for Laravel's New Exception Page

When Laravel moved to the new minimal default Exception Page in Laravel 11.9, Spatie released a Laravel Share Error package that brings back the abili...

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Manage Events, Feature Flags, and More with PostHog for Laravel

Laravel PostHog is a package integrating PostHog—a platform to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features—with Laravel. Learn how to use this pac...

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Randomize Command Execution Time with the Chaotic Schedule Package for Laravel

The Chaotic Schedule package for Laravel allows you to randomize scheduled command execution time and date intervals via Pseudorandom number generator...

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Use a Closure with updateOrInsert() in Laravel 11.10

This week, the Laravel team released v11.10, with the ability to pass a callback to Builder::updateOrInsert(), support for soft-deleted models with ex...

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