Diaa Fares

Laravel Artisan, Web Developer, Tech Geek

Laravel Decomposer – List your dependencies and environment for tech support

When working with Laravel apps, sometimes you encounter problems related to your application environment; a required PHP extension is missing, the sto...

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Review: Refactoring to Collections

“Never write another loop again.” A strong promo sentence used by Adam Wathan to market his Refactoring to Collections book, but does it hold the prom...

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Laravel Uptime Monitor

Laravel Uptime Monitor, which aims to provide an easy and powerful way to monitor your website uptime and SSL certificate expiration date; it will not...

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Laravel Dusk Is Coming to Laravel 5.4

When you write end-to-end tests, Laravel provides a set of useful helper methods which make it easy to click a link, fill an input field, or submit a...

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Build Custom Admin Panels With Backpack for Laravel

Backpack for Laravel is a collection of packages which allows you to create admin panels for any web app quickly. It provides a set of useful packages...

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Store your translations in the database with Laravel translation loader package

Laravel has built-in support for localization using arrays stored in language files and in 5.4 they are adding the ability for JSON based language fil...

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Introduction to Rollup.js

Rollup is a next-generation JavaScript module bundler. Using it you can build your app or library using ES2015 modules, then efficiently bundle them u...

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Laravel Missing Page Redirector Package

If you moved your site to a new domain, chances are you want the users and search engines to be directed to the correct pages on the new domain. One w...

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Installing Bourbon and Neat with Laravel Elixir

Laravel Elixir is a wrapper that simplifies working with Gulp, it makes compiling, concating, minifying and versioning your JavaScript and CSS files v...

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View your routes through the browser with the Pretty Routes package

One nice Laravel feature is its routing, by visiting your routing file, you can get an eagle eye view of your application and a map that shows which U...

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Edit your environment files through the browser with Brotzka .env-Editor

When you’re working with Laravel, every installation includes a .env example file in your application’s root folder. This allows you to keep sensitive...

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Improved model generation with Laracademy Generators

Laravel provides the Artisan command line tool that allows you to save time by including several generators. Some examples include make:controller, ma...

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