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Testing

Intermediate Difficulty

Browser Testing With Laravel Dusk

Laravel Dusk provides an expressive testing API and browser automation for your apps. In terms of testing, it provides the closest thing to an actual user interacting with your application in a browser. These tests are typically referred to as end to end tests or browser tests. In this series, we’ll prepare a series of Dusk tests for a standard blog application.

4 Lessons

48m

Tooling

Intermediate Difficulty

Billing With Laravel Cashier

Laravel Cashier provides an expressive, fluent interface to Stripe's (and Paddle's) subscription billing services. In this series, we’ll take a look at the features of Cashier that will allow you to create the billing portion of a subscription-based SAAS app, including subscribing users to plans, authorizing with middleware, single charges, and invoices.

7 Lessons

1h 29m

Intermediate Difficulty

Spam Prevention Techniques

If you are lucky enough to build a popular community, then your reward is a never-ending onslaught of spam. It's a simple reality; there's no getting around it. In this series, I'll show you a variety of useful techniques for preventing spam at every turn. We'll review everything from basic keyword matching, to honeypots, to reCAPTCHA.

6 Lessons

49m

Intermediate Difficulty

Playing With PHP

This series is all about the little projects you build once you're off the clock. One topic per section, we'll toy with the fringes of PHP to, for example, blink our lights when a PHPUnit test fails. Why bother? Because it's fun! Come along and join me.

3 Lessons

37m

Tooling

Intermediate Difficulty

Learn Laravel Scout

Laravel Scout is a powerful, full-text search package for your Eloquent models. Follow the basic setup instructions, and within minutes you'll be triggering lightning-fast search queries with Algolia. In this short series, come a long as I demonstrate everything you need to know.

3 Lessons

25m

Languages

Intermediate Difficulty

PHP 8 Crash Course

It's hard to believe, but PHP 8 is right around the corner. As part of this new release, not only will you benefit from performance improvements - thanks to the new JIT compiler - but you'll also enjoy useful new operators and types, attributes, match expressions, and so much more. If you're intrigued, hop in and we'll review everything you need to know.

9 Lessons

39m

Tooling

Intermediate Difficulty

Learn Laravel Horizon

Laravel Horizon provides a beautiful dashboard and code-driven configuration for Redis queues in Laravel. In this short series, I'll get you up and running in no time.

3 Lessons

38m

Intermediate Difficulty

Learn Telescope

Laravel Telescope is an elegant debug assistant for Laravel. It provides insight on things like requests, exceptions, database queries, and so much more. In this short mini-series, I'll tell you everything you need to know.

2 Lessons

25m

Intermediate Difficulty

Long-form Refactoring Workshops

This series is exclusively focused on the art of refactoring code. Make a small change, run the tests, and then make another small change. Each episode provides a variety of long-form examples and pitfalls using real life code. Please note that this series is not chronological. Each episode is unique and may be viewed in any order.

2 Lessons

1h 34m

Intermediate Difficulty

Multitenancy in Practice

In this series, I'll show you how to build a single-database, multi-tenant application in Laravel. Together, we'll construct our application in such a way as to ensure that data from one tenant never leaks into the results for another tenant.

10 Lessons

2h 25m

Intermediate Difficulty

Learn Socialite

Socialite provides you with a simple and convenient way to authenticate with OAuth providers like Facebook, Twitter, and GitHub. In this mini-series, I'll show you exactly how to use it in your own projects.

2 Lessons

24m

Advanced Difficulty

Open-Closed Workshop

In this workshop, we'll focus exclusively on the open-closed principle (the O in SOLID). Using real-life code, line by line, we'll refactor a confusing class into something far more manageable and extendable. Once finished, we'll have gained the luxury of introducing new functionality, not by modifying existing code, but by instead writing a new class.

5 Lessons

48m

Intermediate Difficulty

Livewire Basics

Livewire has quickly become one of the most popular package for building Laravel applications. It allows you to create dynamic components within PHP, which often results in allowing you to skip the JavaScript layer entirely. In this series, we’ll go over the basics of Livewire and why/when you might reach for it. We’ll then build and test several practical Livewire components.

14 Lessons

3h 2m

Beginner Difficulty

What's New in Laravel 8

Laravel 8 is here! This release includes brand new application scaffolding, class-based model factories, migration squashing, time traveling, and so much more. Join me as, one topic per episode, we review everything you need to know!

12 Lessons

59m

Intermediate Difficulty

Rebuild GitHub with Tailwind

One of the best ways to improve your CSS is by rebuilding existing UIs. You’ll notice common patterns that occur and the best way to handle them. In this first entry, we'll focus on the GitHub UI.View the source code for this episode on GitHub.

5 Lessons

1h 26m