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Make any string studly case using Str::headline() in Laravel 8.x

October 19, 2021 — Strings are tricky things to work with when it comes to programming. But thankfully, Laravel provides a lot of helper methods that can fulfill almost all the use-cases you might have when you’re working with strings.

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Track Git-style local changes in Chrome Dev Tools

October 18, 2021 — Chrome’s Dev Tools is a gold mine of little features. While some of them are pretty useful, some are just there. But the problem here is these features sit deep inside the settings panel and to really discover them, you have to dig them. Feature-by-feature!

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First-class callables in PHP 8.1

October 14, 2021 — The newest release of PHP, v8.1, is around the corner and it will introduce a whole lot of new features, from the read only properties to the native enums. It’s pretty exciting!

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Throwing response exceptions conditionally in Laravel 8.x

October 13, 2021 — When you’re using Laravel’s Http client to make Http requests and something went wrong from the server-side, the server would return one of the error reponses such as 500 Internal Server Error, 502 Gateway Timeout, and so on.

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Check if a PWA is opened as a standalone app or not

October 11, 2021 — When working with Progressive Web Apps (PWA), there might be a case when you only want to show certain things when the website is in standalone mode.

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Dry running Composer update without actually updating dependencies

October 5, 2021 — It would always be a good idea to cross-verify/confirm a destructive action before you actually perform it. For instance, while giving users the ability to delete something important, let’s say the user account, it’s a good idea to present them a confirmation popup before he/she deletes the account permanently.

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Simple blinking cursor animation using CSS

October 1, 2021 — The other day I was feeling a little nerdy (like all the cool kids) and so, I attempted to add this cool-looking blinking cursor at the end of my blog’s tagline like so.

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Always destructure your component props in React.js

September 28, 2021 — While working with React.js components, there are two ways using which you can retrieve/access the component props.

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Custom thumbnails for native video element in HTML

September 27, 2021 — The <video> is an HTML element that can be used to embed a media player on a page that can a variety of video formats. Here’s how a simple video embed with an external video source would look like.

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Retrieve request URL without specific query parameters in Laravel

September 24, 2021 — When you have a request in hand and if the URL is having a query string with different parameters, the easiest way to get the entire URL with the query string is using the fullUrl() method like so.

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