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It's a bit overdue, but I need to add chapter headings to each series here at Laracasts. Come along as I use TDD to drive out this small change to the …
It's a bit overdue, but I need to add chapter headings to each series here at Laracasts. Come along as I use TDD to drive out this small change to the …
Technique #7. Particularly when it comes to your public interface, be careful about requiring flags to toggle various functionality. Instead, ask yourself if …
Technique #6. A magic number is an important value in your system that isn't instantly clear. If you ever find yourself thinking, "Now what does this number …
Our next practical Vue component offers us an easy way to dynamically load and tweak inline SVGs on the fly. View the source code for this episode on GitHub.
Imagine that you need to iterate over a list of items and render the contents of an SVG icon for each. With PHP, this is a cinch. We only need to append the …
I thought you might like to come along, as I implement a tiny feature for the Laracasts video page. If a user edits their comment, we need to track this change …
Technique #5. Often, you'll find your controller conducting logic that might instead be better managed by the model. In this episode, we'll review a TeamMember…
Laravel's Policy classes are incredibly useful for managing authorization logic for your models. But what happens when we require authorization on the frontend …
Technique #4. If you're not careful, it's easy for a controller to quickly get out of hand. All of the sudden, you have countless endpoints and actions - each …
To save time, Laracasts originally used Disqus for its video comments section. However, it's time to migrate to a native solution that is better connected to …
Technique #3. Often, the little things that "don't make a difference" have a way of eventually defining the integrity of your entire codebase. So, yes, do …
If you ever find yourself desperately trying to juggle state between parent and child components, ask yourself if there should instead be a single source of …
Technique #2. Now that we've learned to back up our code with a series of tests, we can move on to the second technique. Clean code isn't a straight line. …
Technique #1. You can't improve your code if you're terrified to change it. That's where tests come into play. Think of them as refactoring insurance. Go …
Source diving isn't always the most enjoyable thing in the world, but, nonetheless, it's an excellent way to improve your understanding of an API. In this …
Next up on the agenda is flexible confirmation buttons and dialogs. Among other things, this will offer us a chance to review event dispatchers and promises. V…
Our next practical Vue component is, of course, the ubiquitous modal. In this episode, we'll migrate and enhance the code from the CSS-only modals lesson. Once …
A common need is to display a block of HTML only when another block is hidden from the viewport. In fact, this technique is used in a number of places around …
Now that you understand how pipelines work, let's dive into the Laravel source code to figure out what precisely happens when we call ReconcileAccount::dispatc…
I recently learned how to create CSS-only modals by leveraging the :target psuedo-class. In this episode, I'll show you how to combine this technique with …