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Lloyd's Laravel Lessons 👨🏾‍🏫

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

Log Your Laravel API Routes With Middleware
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() in your frontend just doesn't seem to cut it and the problem seems out of reach. Luckily, Laravel p...
Feb 21, 20212 min read1.1K
Integrate Twilio Into Laravel Like a Senior Dev
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 frameworks like Laravel. It also doesn't heed DRY principles as defined in the book, The Pragmatic Progr...
Feb 22, 20213 min read668
Forget REST. Here's How to Make a GraphQL API with Laravel
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 can use just one query to get data from an API instead of hitting multiple endpoints with different H...
Feb 28, 20215 min read1.9K
Write Your Laravel Validation Logic Like a Senior Dev, Part 1
Separating validation from your controllers with Form Requests
Mar 9, 20215 min read2.3K
Write Your Laravel Validation Logic Like a Senior Dev, Part 2
Making custom rules when they get complicated
Mar 10, 20213 min read558
Uploading a Laravel and React Project to Heroku
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 how Laravel devs still have to go to multiple places for docs, but it's what we have so far until th...
Apr 13, 20215 min read1.4K

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