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May 8, 2021
Auto generating argument typehints for PhpStorm in Laravel projects
In a Laravel project you can generate PHPDocs and PhpStorm Meta using the barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper package. We can add additional typehints for custom functions by writing a command to generate a...
ReadJanuary 30, 2021
Single component events in Laravel Livewire
When rendering multiple instances of the same Livewire component on a page you may want to emit an event to a specific child component, not all components of the same type. Take for example this...
ReadJanuary 23, 2021
Eager loading complex functions with Laravel custom collections
In Laravel, we can eager load relationships to prevent n+1 queries being performed when fetching multiple records from the database. An example taken from the Laravel docs. This works great for a...
ReadNovember 9, 2020
Testing Laravel routes have middleware
In some applications you might require every route to be protected by authentication. We can use tests to make sure that all of your routes are using the correct middleware and are not accessible...
ReadOctober 8, 2020
Protecting LiveWire components when using multiple auth drivers
Laravel Livewire provides a dead easy way to add dynamic components to your site without the need to write any JavaScript. Although Livewire does support authentication out of the box, if you have...
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