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.
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.
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.
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 (??).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Listen to multiple events in a single class in Laravel
April 24, 2020 — The Observer design pattern is one of the twenty-three well-known “Gang of Four” design patterns that describe how to solve recurring design problems to design flexible and reusable object-oriented software, that is, objects that are easier to implement, change, test, and reuse.
Using different mail drivers dynamically in Laravel 7.x
April 23, 2020 — Sending emails in Laravel is a breeze. All you have to do is, configure your default mail service in config/mail.php and it’s related configuration in config/services.php file.
