For about eight months or so, I decided to commit myself and focus on Node.js as my main backend techstack of choice. PHP/Laravel have treated me well and I’ve been loving Go, but I...
If you have a small if/else statement, it could possibly be turned into a ternary operator. What is a ternary operator The ternary operator is a comparison operator and can be looked at as...
I’ve been taking a stab at ES6/ES2015 and Webpack for the past couple of days. So far I love it! I haven’t been the hugest fan of Javascript, however, I took the dive and...
I recently found out about a feature in Laravel 5.3 as I was working with email. That was when I discovered Laravel Mailables. This is a great, clean way to send email; especially if...
If you’re not sure what composer is, it’s a dependency manager for PHP. It’s very similar to NPM. Composer is a nice way to install PHP packages, manage dependencies, use it as an autoloader,...
I’ve been exploring the topic of caching in web applications lately. To be more specific, I’ve been interested on how data gets cached for better performance; especially when you’re performing really expensive queries. Maybe...
In the last blog post, I talked about collections in Laravel. I decided to make a video this time, taking about the map() method and what it does. The video explains the map() method...
Laravel provides a lot of amazing tools out-of-the-box and collections are one of them. The collection class within Illuminate\Support is basically a wrapper that allows you to work with and manipulate arrays of data....
This is Codepen I created that was inspired by this Dribbble shot. Didn’t have time to code up the whole design since I’m trying to pump these out daily for practice. However, this is...
Introduction Hello there! I’ve been wanting to do a daily thing where I code up some UI components just for practice. Maybe I’ll search around Dribbble and see if I build a design using...