I spend a lot of time in the Larachat Slack channel, and one of the most common questions/topics is getting Laravel running locally in a proper dev environment on their machine. There are a few different moving parts that enable a local dev environment to... (more…)

In this article we address the problem of generating fake data for complex data model with a lot of relations and dependencies between… (more…)

Pipelines are very helpful to keep our code clean and readable. Let's find out one of the most useful but not so well known component of the Laravel framework. (more…)

The version 5.4 of Laravel PHP Framework was released this week and it's full of interesting new features and improvements.

Laravel is probably the closest thing that the PHP community has to Marmite, it seems you either love it or hate it. It’s proponents love how easy it makes developing software; whereas it’s detractors accuse the framework of promoting bad practices. The... (more…)