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Unpacking inside arrays using spread operator in PHP

May 12, 2020 — If you’ve ever worked with JavaScript, you might be well aware of this feature. So basically, from PHP 7.4, you would be able to unpack arrays into another array using spread operator [...].

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Detecting device color scheme automatically in JavaScript

May 11, 2020 — Implementing a Dark mode in applications is all the rage these days. And you can provide a toggle to switch between Dark/Light mode to users like the one I’ve implemented on my Notepad app.

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Using ::class static class keyword in PHP

May 8, 2020 — If you’ve worked with modern frameworks such as Laravel, you might have seen this keyword ::class be used extensively throughout the application.

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How to pull a composer package in a Laravel project locally

May 7, 2020 — Lately, if you’ve been working on some functionality and you want to extract it as a Laravel package, you’d like to first test it locally. And if everything is well and good, you’d then publish it to the packagist.org.

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Select React element type using general expressions

May 6, 2020 — The usual way of using a React element is to first import it and then utilize it inside of an another React component like so.

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Null coalescing assignment operator in PHP

May 4, 2020 — When PHP 7.0 released, it has added many nice things in PHP’s toolbelt of utilities. One of the things among this was Null coalescing assignment operator (??).

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How to implement wrapper classes in PHP

May 4, 2020 — If you look at PHP’s core helper functions, they aren’t very intuitive to use and are pretty inconsistent at times. For instance, the array_map function is used to apply the callback to the elements of the given arrays. Here’s how its definition looks like.

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Using custom class as a Facade in Laravel

April 29, 2020 — Facades, in Laravel, is basically a way of using Laravel’s classes without injecting them into the constructor of the class in which you want to use them.

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Create your own custom Blade directive in Laravel

April 27, 2020 — Laravel Blade comes with many in-built directives such as @section, @yield, @parent, @json and several others, all of which have a certain purpose attached to them.

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Auto discovery of events in Laravel

April 26, 2020 — In this article, I’ve written about how to use event subscribers or observer pattern in Laravel.

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