June 6, 2024 — Povilas Korop recently shared an interesting (yet important) tip regarding sane use of Composer if you’re used to working with Composer on your server.

June 5, 2024 — When it comes to building a SaaS product, Laravel essentially covers many things for you out of the box—things such as authentication, user management, notifications, queues, etc. You can further use first-party or third-party packages to add more features to your application.

May 30, 2024 — The attention to detail in everything that Laravel’s core team does is truly inspiring. Be it the clean code, the well-thought-out architecture, the thoughtful design decisions, or even the symmetry in the 3-line code comments, everything seems to be in the state of zen.

May 29, 2024 — When it comes to sending emails, Laravel makes it a breeze of a task. Be it SMTP, Sendmail, Mailgun, or any other service, Laravel has got it all. You set the default mailer, the required API key/token in the .env file, and you are good to go.

May 28, 2024 — Generally, when you want to center content vertically, you may reach for Flexbox or Grid. So, for instance, if you have a div with a height of 100px and you want to center its content vertically, you can do it with Flexbox like so.

May 26, 2024 — Broken links, also known as dead links, are hyperlinks on a webpage that no longer lead to the intended destination. When a user clicks on a broken link, they typically encounter a 404 error message, indicating that the webpage cannot be found.

May 24, 2024 — Many times when sharing screenshots of websites, I would like to show the website loaded in the browser but at the same time, I don’t want to show all the clutter that comes with the browser like the toolbar, tabs, extensions, etc.

May 20, 2024 — PHP 8.4 is still under development and has a bunch of new features and improvements under its belt so far. New features keep on appearing and one of them recently surfaced is the addition of new array methods.

May 17, 2024 — Reusing database queries is a common practice to maintain clean, DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) code and ensure consistency across your application.

May 16, 2024 — Sometimes, when working with some common elements, for instance, <ul>, <a>, or <div>, you might add the class attribute to some of them and then use that class to style them.