October 3, 2023 — Laravel has this method called substr() (both in Illuminate\Support\Str classes and str() global helper) which is used to form substrings from a given string.

October 1, 2023 — In this article, I’m going to show you all the ways you can turn an array into an object in JavaScript with examples.

September 27, 2023 — Imagine you’re building a web application. And you want to add a date picker component to it. Now, you can either build it from scratch or you can use a third-party library like Flatpickr or Pikaday to do the job for you.

September 25, 2023 — Textareas areas are great when it comes to accepting a large amount of text from the user. But, the problem with textareas is that they have a fixed height. So, if the user enters more text than the height of the text, the text will overflow and the user will have to scroll to see the rest of the text.

September 21, 2023 — With the evolution of PHP to its modern version, the one operator that has been used thoroughly across various places is the ellipsis operator (...).

September 21, 2023 — A few days ago I discussed many ways to tail logs in Laravel. And it hasn’t been long since I wrote that article, a new package called Pail has popped up on my radar which is also a Laravel package for tailing logs.

September 20, 2023 — If you’re a journalist or a writer, you might be familiar with the AP Stylebook commonly known as “AP-style”. It’s a writing style guide for journalists and it’s widely used in the United States.

September 17, 2023 — When you’re debugging a web application, you might want to override the response of a fetch or XMLHttpRequest request to test your application’s behavior in certain scenarios.

September 15, 2023 — There are a lot of tools like ngrok that let you expose your local server to the internet. But did you know VS Code has just got this feature in the form of port forwarding so that you don’t need to install any third-party tool to do this anymore?

September 14, 2023 — Environment variables are tricky little things that we use in our Laravel applications to store sensitive information such as API keys, database credentials, and so on. And there are two ways to access them in your Laravel application.