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Have you ever profiled how long does it take for your PHP or PHP-FPM docker image to build? Probably, you have noticed that the composer install step takes the...
This article is a small tutorial on how to start broadcasting Laravel notifications with Pusher and receiving them in React. I had some trouble finding all the...
When I work with APIs, I usually create a single PHP class which is responsible for sending the Guzzle HTTP request. It usually looks like this: <?php namesp...
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I was looking for a small application idea to finally test Laravel Zero.
I decided to create something to track cryptocurrency Twitter accounts and to detect tr...
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There are many benefits to moving from a single web server to having 2 or more of them. First off your app won’t die when dealing with a failure on that server,...
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Consider a Symfony application that contains a custom form field for a color picker that requires some JavaScript code to work. Although Symfony provides multip...
When creating a belongs to many, as of now, you can add the same pivot relationship multiple times. IE user_id order_id In order to work around that, you can fi...
Have you ever read something about programming that was outdated or misunderstood and cringed? Many PHP developers can probably relate when they hear misinforma...