Pusher alternatives for local development with Laravel Broadcasting
Recently, I built a proof of concept for a feature using Laravel’s Broadcasting feature. While I was familiar with its existence, it was my
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Setting up infrastructure using HashiCorp Terraform, Laravel Forge and Cloudflare
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Typescript, Vue 3, and strongly typed props
After working with React (and TypeScript) for a long time, I’ve recently been contributing to a Vue application. While I felt right at home
Adding GitHub annotations with PHP-CS-Fixer
Have you ever seen an error message like the one above before? If you’ve used tools such as PHPStan alongside GitHub Actions then it
Using an SSH tunnel to connect to your dev MySQL with Docker
About a year ago, I wrote about managing your ports with Traefik in your local development environment. That blog post described how to set up
On Technical debt - What is it, how is it created, what types of technical debt are there, how to avoid tech debt, and how to fix it?
What is technical debt? How can you fix technical debt and what is the best approach to avoid technical debt?
Fixing cookiebot bug by not fixing cookiebot
I want to start with a small disclaimer that I don’t fully understand what exactly went wrong and why the things we did fixed
Google Workspace SSO and automated user provisioning
One of the client projects I work on has larger, enterprise customers. Because of this, I needed to create a way for their users to
Modern front-end monorepos — Part 2: running scripts
In the previous article, we set up a monorepo project with 2 applications and a package. We also enabled Yarn workspaces to manage the dependencies
Modern front-end monorepos — Part 1: managing dependencies and sharing code
I’ve really learned to love a good monorepo setup, a repository that contains multiple packages and/or applications. Being able to make changes across
The easiest production-ready image to run your Laravel application
It’s no secret that we are big fans of Docker during our daily development work. It’s still one of the easiest ways to
Running PHPUnit with PHPStorm
When writing tests, I often find myself switching between the IDE and terminal windows to actually run the tests. On projects with very large test
Improving performance and reliability of client's core business component using a simple running total
A client project I work on required some processing, scheduled nightly at 2am. I’m a curious creature, by nature, so I was eager to
Performance tips for Laravel
Recently, we were looking into some Laravel PHP8 performance issues we were experiencing on one screen of a web application. This screen would show an
Merging 4 codebases with help of Rector
The set up When developing software, you sometimes come up with ideas that in the end don’t really work out. Depending on the idea