When building a website in Laravel (or any other PHP-based framework) where users will be uploading images, you will probably use a library to manipulate and process those images. With cell phone cameras capturing larger, higher-resolution images, raw images that are uploaded could quickly fill the available hard drive space and cause performance issues on …
Scheduled tasks in Laravel are helpful when you need to run a task on a given schedule. You might need to export to an Excel file every night, or you might need to send a reminder to a user at a certain time. You could create a Cron job or scheduled task for each of …
Selecting the right PWA development company is a critical part of your journey. Here are ten tips to help you make the proper selections:
Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) are seeing a rapid increase in global adoption. Contrary to native apps, which run specifically on a platform (iOS or Android), PWAs run on the internet using a browser engine. With the increase in global adoption, we see organizations asking if developing a PWA is worth the investments. How good are …
When is it helpful to utilize job batches in Laravel? We’ve touched on queues in a previous article. Queues are a useful tool in Laravel, allowing you to run complicated or time consuming tasks in the background. There will be times when you need to run dozens, or even hundreds of instances of a job …
Stubs are class templates that come with Laravel. They get used behind the scenes whenever you create new files within your project. Stubs are hidden from view by default, so I don’t think they are appreciated enough. Chances are, if you have worked with Laravel, you’ve used an artisan make command to make a new …
During development on a web project, you may need something to occur when a database table is modified. For example, you might want to send a confirmation notification to a user whenever a record is created. Or you might want to create a record in a log table whenever a record is updated or deleted. …
If you’re looking into sending email from Laravel, you will most likely find information about Laravel Mail, and rightly so, as it’s a powerful way to send emails. In our experience, though, there’s a simpler way to go about sending email, and it’s the method we’ll reach for first–Laravel Notifications. Not only are notifications simple, …
Let’s look at how investing in software during an economic downturn can strengthen your company and save you money in the long run.
I work for a custom software developer. As such, my biggest competitors are not other custom developers or even new technologies. My biggest competitor is apathy, where the customer does not make any decision, or they choose an off-the-shelf application (also known as commercial-off-the-shelf applications, or COTS). COTS applications are prebuilt for a specific niche …
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