Creativity, curiosity, and code
So I wanted to have a play with Laravel Breeze and Jetstream. In doing so I noticed that the instructions for Breeze (and for Laravel in general) suggest a Docker-based Laravel Sail install by default. I had not looked into Docker despite a lot of hype around it recently in my tech world. So I […]
I’ve been updating some old Laravel apps and I just came across this issue with updating from 5.6 to 5.7. It’s noted in the upgrade docs (see “Template Theme”) but easy to miss. I know I’ll come across this again, so it’s worth noting here for the future. If you have published your mail templates […]
A WHAT NOW?!!! Note: If this has been done before, just tell me and point me in the right direction please? Thanks! TL;DR I made a Laravel package and Statamic v3 addon that automatically download JS and CSS package files from CDN’s and cache and serve them locally. Go straight to the README’s if you’re […]
Note to self: this is why you should, and how you can customise form validation error messages in Laravel - even when using form requests
I’m SURE I must have done this before. Like…so many times. But this felt new today and is definitely worth remembering. When you’re using forms in Laravel, you sometimes want a “cancel” or “back” button or link that takes you to where you were before. And Laravel provides a handy url() helper that gets a […]
How to specify a specific policy/class when authorizing using the controller helper function in Laravel.
While the confusion over the launch of WordPress’s new “Gutenberg” editor continues, I’ve been considering some other options. As someone who also works in the Laravel world, Statamic is making a pretty big blip on my radar. It’s a content management system that ‘runs on a “flat file” engine based on Markdown and YAML files’. […]
I'm using Test Driven Development (TDD) for the first (and second) time on a couple of side projects. Here are some further reflections on the process and issues I've come across.
I'm going on the journey of building a simple, private, self-hosted, cookie-free analytics tool that I'm calling Kownter. I may fail. But it will be fun and interesting! Come along!
Laravel uses token auth by default, here's how to switch it out for simple cookie-based auth for quick and easy API tinkering for logged-in users.