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March 10, 2021

Cheatsheet - Register a private github repository in a Laravel app

How to register a package in Laravel from a private github repository, without registering it with packagist. Update the composer file of your project. Add the following to your require...

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March 10, 2021

Cheatsheet - Register a local laravel package during development

How to register a package in Laravel from a local folder, during package development. I am a big fan of Spatie's package skeleton repo. Its a really good starting point for package development. Use...

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August 27, 2020

Debugging uploads in Laravel

Recently while debugging a file upload issues, i came accross a few helper methods that can save a lot of time. Uploaded file returns a instant of Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile, which...

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August 23, 2020

Laravel file uploads limits

Over the years, Laravel file uploads have gotten so simple that most of the time they just work. Livewire has also added file uploads to its api. However there are some issues that can pop up when...

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May 30, 2020

Livewire component that updates the cart counter

Let's say we have a button that adds a product to the cart dynamically. Maybe it does this through VueJS component, Javascript, or in our case a Livewire component. We want to update the counter...

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May 24, 2020

Handling Laravel's 'ModelNotFoundException' globally

Update: See bottom of article to see how to handle while declairing the route. Laravel offers a pretty elegant way of handling exceptions. Let's say you wanted to retrieve a record from a database,...

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May 18, 2020

How to filter a list using Laravel query builder and checkboxes

We have a list of products that we need to filter. For example, we have a storefront that sells sporting apparel. Each product has a brand (Nike, Adidas etc.) and a category (t-shirts, shoes etc.)....

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May 15, 2020

Ubuntu LAMP setup for Laravel

If you need a local server for testing, or want to set up a production server, below are the step-by-step instructions on how to install a Ubuntu server. The focus will be on setting up a LAMP stack...

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