Paul Redmond

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

Bartender Is an Opinionated Way to Authenticate Users Using Laravel Socialite image

Bartender Is an Opinionated Way to Authenticate Users Using Laravel Socialite

The Bartender package for Laravel is an opinionated way to authenticate users using Laravel Socialite.

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Easily Optimize PDFs in Laravel with the Optimizer Package image

Easily Optimize PDFs in Laravel with the Optimizer Package

This PDF Optimizer package for PHP and Laravel applications for effortless optimization and compression of PDF files.

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Create Preview Deployments on Forge with Laravel Harbor image

Create Preview Deployments on Forge with Laravel Harbor

Laravel Harbor is a CLI tool that allows you to quickly create on-demand preview environments for your app on Laravel Forge. Learn how to automaticall...

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Use the New Fluent Helper to Work With Multi-dimensional Arrays in Laravel 11.2 image

Use the New Fluent Helper to Work With Multi-dimensional Arrays in Laravel 11.2

This week, the Laravel team released v11.2, which includes a fluent() support helper, a context() helper, improved handling of a missing database duri...

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A Package to Generate Custom Stubs in Laravel image

A Package to Generate Custom Stubs in Laravel

Laravel Stub is a package that aims to enhance your development workflow in Laravel by providing a set of customizable stubs.

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Creating Your Own PHP Helpers in a Laravel Project image

Creating Your Own PHP Helpers in a Laravel Project

Laravel provides many excellent helper functions that are convenient for doing things like working with arrays, file paths, strings, and routes, among...

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Fast Server-Side Code Highlighting with Tempest image

Fast Server-Side Code Highlighting with Tempest

The Tempest Highlight package by Brent Roose released v1.0 yesterday, offering a fast, extensible, server-side code highlighting for HTML and terminal...

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Generate Code Coverage in Laravel With PCOV image

Generate Code Coverage in Laravel With PCOV

Learn how to configure PHPUnit and Pest to generate HTML code coverage reports in Laravel.

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Non-backed Enums in Database Queries and a withSchedule() bootstrap method in Laravel 11.1 image

Non-backed Enums in Database Queries and a withSchedule() bootstrap method in Laravel 11.1

This week, the Laravel team released v11.1 with a withSchedule() bootstrap method, non-backed Enums in query builder, SES list management options, and...

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Laravel Pint --bail Flag image

Laravel Pint --bail Flag

Laravel Pint released a new --bail flag that stops execution on the first failure, which you can use to test for code-style errors.

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Cache Routes with Cloudflare in Laravel image

Cache Routes with Cloudflare in Laravel

The Cloudflare Cache package for Laravel provides cacheable routes for Cloudflare, allowing you to serve millions of requests efficiently.

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"Can I PHP?" Raycast Extension image

"Can I PHP?" Raycast Extension

The "Can I PHP?" Raycast extension lets you check if a certain function or method is available in different versions of PHP.

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