I had a long, very long, standing personal project (who doesn’t, hey?) that was in desperate need of attention. It was running on a old version of Laravel, it was using a very old-fashioned look-an...

In this post I will be talking about Atomic Commits and how they can result in writing better code and improved quality and efficacy of the PR review process. This is based on a proposal I wrote wh...

I have been using Laravel Dusk for my e2e tests for some time, but the problem I have with it is that it is really slow. A couple of years ago I started playing with Cypress and I found it, honestl...

In this article I will show how to build a Livewire component to ask for consent to store cookies. While helping a friend rebuild their website, one of the requirement was to allow users to “like”...

As part of my job I had to very often check which branch was deployed, and when, to a specific environment, usually a UAT client’s site. We use GitLab for deployments, and each of our deployment h...

Lately I have been working on a lot on a project of mine that has been lagging behind for quite some time. One of the first thing I wanted to get right was CI. I use both CircleCI and Travis-CI. W...

While working on a project, I was tasked to integrate Rollbar into it. The problem was that this was a Lumen project, and I didn’t find a package maintained for Lumen 5.7. So I decided to look at ...

Working on a legacy database I came across an issue where different type of models were stored in the same table, and therefore use the same Eloquent model in my Laravel app. For example, let’s say...

I was recently tasked with building a few APIs to provide content to our frontend and a few modules on our website, and perhaps a third party application in the future. I then started researching t...

I love working with Laravel, but when I had to write an app which integrates with two legacy databases and a new one, I was stuck on writing tests because the DatabaseMigration and DatabaseTransact...