A collection of 5 posts
Laravel 7 was recently released on 3rd March 2020. It is an exciting release with a few noted new features aimed at improving the performance of the Laravel framework as well as the Developer Experience. One of these features that…
Defining Model Factories and Model Factory States Laravel 5.1 came with Model Factories which allow you to generate models with "fake" data using the Faker library. This quickly became a powerful and essential feature which greatly assists…
In this tutorial, we are going to look at how to easily install React in Laravel 5.5 Using the new frontend presets feature which has come to Laravel 5.5 Installing Laravel Prerequisites: Composer PHP 7.0 or greater…
I was recently tinkering with chat bots in PHP and stumbled across the BotMan library and thought it was so awesome that I'd share it with you all. What is BotMan? BotMan.io is an awesome PHP chatbot framework invented…
Why Travis? I recently gave a talk at a local PHP Meetup in Cape Town discussing the basics of using Travis CI and how to implement it in a laravel project. I use Travis CI personally for my hobby projects…