Laravel

These posts are all related to the PHP programming language.

Avoiding void responses in Laravel controllers

If there's one thing you can depend on Laravel for, it's ensuring that your controllers return a response back to the client. Whether you're explicitly returning responses using the...

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Introducing an unofficial Hashnode API library for PHP

When I heard about the Hashnode Christmas Hackathon, I immediately began brainstorming ideas to develop something that members of the community might find useful, but would also be a great learning...

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Documentation in Laravel 8 with Enlighten

The importance of software documentation, even in an agile world, is undisputed. Keeping documentation, especially for APIs, up-to-date however can be an additional burden on a development team, and...

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PHP and Composer on the Windows Subsystem for Linux

In this guide, I'll be showing you step-by-step what you need to do to install the Windows Subsystem for Linux, and then both PHP and the Composer package manager. As a prerequisite, this requires...

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Why I continue to develop with PHP

I have no doubt that if you work in any realm of software engineering, or have at the very least spent enough time on Twitter, you'll have encountered the seemingly endless cycles of arguments about...

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