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cpx — The npx counterpart of the PHP ecosystem

October 3, 2024 — If you’re coming from the JavaScript world or even if you’ve worked with modern JavaScript briefly, you might know the importance of npm and its package ecosystem.

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Disable console logs in production in Next.js

September 26, 2024 — Believe it or not, console logging things is still the most used debugging technique by developers. No matter how many advanced tools are available for debugging, logging in to the console still has a sweet spot among developers.

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The magic behind Laravel's new defer() helper

September 15, 2024 — Laravel has recently been shipped with a new helper called defer() which can be used to defer the execution of a callback until after a successful response has been sent.

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Temporary and Signed URLs for Local Filesystem in Laravel

September 14, 2024 — If you’re a long-time Laravel user, you might know about the feature that allows you to create temporary and signed URLs for files. This is a great feature that will enable you to share files with other users for a specified time.

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Make "git diff" look beautiful in the terminal

September 13, 2024 — If you’re working with Git often in the terminal, you might have noticed that the git diff command is not very pretty when displaying unstaged changes.

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Container Attributes in Laravel

September 8, 2024 — When you’re working with service classes in Laravel that you would inject into your controllers or anywhere else, you might need to pass some configuration values to them.

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Inlay hints make it easy to read code in VS Code

September 5, 2024 — You read more code than you write. And it’s true. When working on a large codebase, you might need to read a lot of code (written by others) to understand it better.

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A package to easily backup database tables in Laravel

September 3, 2024 — Sometimes what happens is that for some reason, you might need to back up your database tables.

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Enabling Richer PWA Install UI on Desktop

August 27, 2024 — When I wrote this article about adding support for showing app screenshots in the install UI, there wasn’t a way to do the same on the desktop.

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Using Human-friendly dates in Git

August 17, 2024 — Git is a de-facto standard for version control these days. And there’s no doubt that it’s a powerful tool that can help you manage your code and collaborate with others.

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