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Recently, something interesting happened at work. My product manager, a completely non-technical person, started using Replit. He loved the experience. He could describe what he wanted, make a change, and see it appear i…
When building a web application in Laravel, especially a dashboard, it’s common to display metrics like the count of users, orders, and products. If these statistics are fetched sequentially, first the user count, then t…
When you’re building something in Laravel, there are often times you want extra things to happen whenever a model changes. For example: Send an email when a user signs up Write something to the logs Update related data S…
In JavaScript, we sometimes need to access properties of an object that might not even exist. Without careful checks, this can cause errors in our code. Let’s say we have a post object that usually has title, description…
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#Laravel Tip 🚀 In Laravel 12, you can automatically cast Eloquent attributes to HTML strings using AsHtmlString::class.
#Laravel Tip 🚀 In Laravel 12, you can use the toResource() helper directly on your Eloquent models. Just fetch your data, and instantly convert it into a clean, structured API resource.
#Laravel Tip 🚀 In Laravel, the Arr::hasAll method allows you to check if all the specified keys are present in an array. It supports nested keys using dot notation and returns true only if every key exists.
#Laravel Tip 🚀 The Str::mask method hides part of a string by replacing it with a repeated character, making it useful for covering things like emails or phone numbers.
#Laravel Tip 🔥 You can use incrementEach() method to increment multiple columns with a single query.
#Laravel Tip 🔥 You can use the 'replicate' method to create the unsaved copy of the existing model instance.
#Laravel Tip 🚀 You can use the incrementEach() and decrementEach() methods to increment and decrement multiple columns with a single query.
#Laravel Tip 🚀 You can use the min_digits and max_digits built-in validation rules to require an integer to be between a minimum and maximum length.