Lloyd Miller
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Lloyd's Laravel Lessons 👨🏾‍🏫

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

Articles in this series

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() in your frontend just doesn't seem to cut it and the problem seems out of reach. Luckily, Laravel p...

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 frameworks like Laravel. It also doesn't heed DRY principles as defined in the book, The Pragmatic Progr...

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 can use just one query to get data from an API instead of hitting multiple endpoints with different H...

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

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

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 how Laravel devs still have to go to multiple places for docs, but it's what we have so far until th...

Uploading a Laravel and React Project to Heroku