Inertia.js: Building Single-Page Apps the Old Way
Update: We’ve written a newer, more detailed tutorial on Inertia using Laravel Jetstream. I’ve been building Laravel apps for years now. From large, data-heavy apps like Mergebot (RIP 😢) and… Read more
How Laravel Valet Works Exactly
Developers tend to love messing about with their local development environments to see what fits their project requirements and workflow best. Since its launch in 2016, Laravel Valet has quickly… Read more
Optimizing Laravel Part 4: Queues, Front-end & Opcache Considerations
This is article 4 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” In my last article we looked at what object caching is and how and when to use it to… Read more
Optimizing Laravel Part 3: Improving Performance with Object Caching
This is article 3 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” In my last article we looked at what a database index is and how we can use database indexing… Read more
Optimizing Laravel Part 2: Improving Query Performance with Database Indexing
This is article 2 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” In my last article we looked at some simple commands and some basic code tweaks we could use to… Read more
Optimizing Laravel Part 1: The Basics
This is article 1 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” Laravel is a very popular PHP framework these days and can be used for a range of web applications,… Read more
Mergebot Now 1,200% Faster: Tuning a Laravel App with Blackfire
We just hit a huge milestone in our Mergebot beta by lifting the 1,000 queries per deployment limit 🎉. We created Mergebot to make merging WordPress databases easy. When we… Read more
Scaling a Cron: Checking Hundreds of Sites Every Minute
In my last article I described how I built a cloud app using Laravel Spark. Web Uptime is a website uptime and monitoring app that checks your website’s status every… Read more
Building a SaaS app with Laravel Spark: Web Uptime
If you keep up with the Laravel community at all you’ll be aware that Taylor Otwell recently released his much anticipated SaaS scaffolding library called Spark. Spark is a library… Read more
Using React and Laravel Lumen to Build a Company Status Board
A few months ago I bought an Apple Cinema display to use with my Macbook Pro. My plan was to use both screens, my Cinema display as my primary screen… Read more