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Using Variables in Your .env File

Laravel’s .env file is included to use, so it’s easy to have a different configuration based on the environment your app is running on. This gives you...

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How To Install OctoberCMS on Ubuntu

October is one of the leaders in Laravel CMS’s. It was originally released in 2012 and is popular with developers tired of WordPress. The attractions...

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Laravel Artisan “vendor:publish” Gets A Provider Prompt

Coming in Laravel 5.5 is a change to the vendor publish command that prompts you to select the provider or tag to publish. Making it easier than ever...

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Speed Up Your Laravel App With Config Caching

When deploying your Laravel Application, I’m sure you want to fine tune as much as possible to make it as performant as it can be. The community...

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Installing Laravel in a Subfolder? Hide your .env file.

If you are new to Laravel you might not be familiar with its directory structure and the reasons why it’s setup the way it is. If you look at th...

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Testing File Uploads With Laravel

Laravel now includes a new system for testing file uploads through two new fake methods, one on the UploadFile class and another on the Storage facade...

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A guide to a collaborative debugging workflow with Bugsnag

It’s essential to have good error monitoring in place in order to understand application stability, and be aware when bugs impact your users. But moni...

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Tips For Building Your First Laravel Package

Laravel is a powerful and modern framework. It has tons of different features, which make our work faster and easier. But you can’t push everyth...

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Laravel 5.5 Will Be The Next LTS Release

Version 5.1 was Laravel’s first LTS release and its two-year window of bug fixes are coming to an end this year. There have been a few people qu...

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Laravel Collections “when” Method

Starting at v5.4.12, Laravel Collections now includes a when method that allows you to perform conditional actions on the items without breaking the c...

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Testing Partial JSON Responses with Laravel

Laravel provides many useful helpers for testing your application and it has great support for testing HTTP testing through its fluent API. A feature...

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Laravel Collection “tap” Method

Laravel 5.4.10 introduces a new `tap` method on collections which allow you to “tap” into the collection at a specific point and do someth...

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Laravel Blade @prepend Directive

In version 5.4 Laravel added a new components and slots feature that simplifies building HTML elements into reusable areas. As an example of how this...

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Laravel Eloquent Relationships Through Macros

A new feature just merged into Laravel and included in the v5.4.8 update is the ability to define Macros for Eloquent Relationships. To better show ho...

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Laravel 5.4: Specified key was too long error

Laravel 5.4 made a change to the default database character set, and it's now utf8mb4 which includes support for storing emojis. This only affects new...

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Laravel Forge

Easily create and manage your servers and deploy your Laravel applications in seconds.

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SaaSykit: Laravel SaaS Starter Kit

SaaSykit is a Laravel SaaS Starter Kit that comes with all features required to run a modern SaaS. Payments, Beautiful Checkout, Admin Panel, User dashboard, Auth, Ready Components, Stats, Blog, Docs and more.

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No Compromises

Joel and Aaron, the two seasoned devs from the No Compromises podcast, are now available to hire for your Laravel project. ⬧ Flat rate of $7500/mo. ⬧ No lengthy sales process. ⬧ No contracts. ⬧ 100% money back guarantee.

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Kirschbaum

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