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Lloyd's Laravel Lessons 👨🏾‍🏫

Here I will post some articles that help devs with simple and complex topics in Laravel.

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Log Your Laravel API Routes With Middleware

Feb 21, 20212 min read

From time-to-time, you will happen upon a problem between your frontend and API that you can't quite see. A dd() in your controller or a console.log()...

Log Your Laravel API Routes With Middleware

Integrate Twilio Into Laravel Like a Senior Dev

Feb 22, 20213 min read

In many tutorials around the web, authors use and define services like Twilio in the controller, which flies in the face of the principles of MVC...

Integrate Twilio Into Laravel Like a Senior Dev

Forget REST. Here's How to Make a GraphQL API with Laravel

Feb 28, 20215 min read

GraphQL, in my opinion, has been one of the best technologies to be released in the last ten years. GraphQL is a specification that describes how we...

Forget REST. Here's How to Make a GraphQL API with Laravel

Write Your Laravel Validation Logic Like a Senior Dev, Part 1

Mar 9, 20215 min read

Separating validation from your controllers with Form Requests · Laravel senior devs are constantly looking for ways to ensure their functions,...

Write Your Laravel Validation Logic Like a Senior Dev, Part 1

Write Your Laravel Validation Logic Like a Senior Dev, Part 2

Mar 10, 20213 min read

Making custom rules when they get complicated · Sometimes the rules that come pre-built into Laravel are not enough. Luckily, Laravel provides a way for...

Write Your Laravel Validation Logic Like a Senior Dev, Part 2

Uploading a Laravel and React Project to Heroku

Apr 13, 20215 min read

I've been gone for a while, but I'm back! During my 'break' I gave Inertia with Laravel another chance and ended up liking it. I'm still not a fan of...

Uploading a Laravel and React Project to Heroku