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Inspired by automation and using Laravel Zero
I recently read a blog post about coders programming themselves out of a job. It listed another article on someone using Node, and mentions automating the boring stuff with Python. Both of these languages aren’t something I use day to day, so they don’t interest me. However, what did interest me was the fact I…
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Add Laravel Sail into your current Laravel project
Yesterday Taylor Otwell released a brand new package called Sail which will be available by default in every new Laravel project. However, if you already have your own Laravel project you might want to include it. What is Laravel Sail? Laravel Sail is a light-weight command-line interface for interacting with Laravel’s default Docker development environment.…
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Laravel From Zero to Hero 01: User Authentication
Prerequisite Before we begin setting up our project, we need to ensure a webdriver is installed on our dev environment. We will be using Laravel Dusk for web interaction tests which will use a headless version of the Chrome browser. If you are using Homestead, you can go ahead and set “webdriver” to true and…
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Running Laravel Dusk tests with Docker using DDEV
Part of my “From Zero to Hero” course covers testing with Laravel Dusk. Homestead makes using Dusk really easy since there’s a configuration option. However, I’m now using Docker for my local development and I’m using DDEV to help me with this. If you’re also running DDEV or you’re thinking about using it and need…
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Easy PHP (Laravel, Symfony) Development with Docker using DDEV
DDEV is an open source tool that makes it simple to get local PHP development environments up and running in minutes. Extend and share per-project environment configurations. Installing DDEV Windows using Chocolatey: choco install ddev Mac/Linux using Brew brew tap drud/ddev && brew install ddev Mac/Linux install script curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drud/ddev/master/scripts/install_ddev.sh | bash Using DDEV…
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Zero Downtime Laravel Deployments with “Laravel Deployer” and “Github Actions”
Github actions can automate your entire workflow. From building your assets to running your testing and deployment strategies. Github Actions is very similar to other services such as TravisCI, CircleCI, GitLab Pipelines etc, but if you already have your projects on GitHub, then it makes sense to get Actions working as well. This post is…
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Laravel From Zero to Hero 00: An Introduction to Laravel
What is Laravel? Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation — freeing you to create without sweating the small things. – laravel.com Laravel is a web framework built with PHP and gives you the tools you need to create a website. Why Choose Laravel? Laravel makes PHP…
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Installing VirtualBox, Vagrant and Laravel Homestead
Video Tutorial. Installing VirtualBox VirtualBox helps us create and manage virtual machines which allows us to create development environments for PHP. Head over to https://www.virtualbox.org/ and download the latest version that’s suitable for your machine. Once downloaded, you can go ahead and click next and finish the dialogue setup. Once installed, you will be asked…
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Laravel Development with Vessel (Docker)
Learn how to get started with Vessel
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Wodemocracy 💪 Crossfit 💪 Indie site
Wodemocracy is a website I have created that I hope can bring a bit more fun and community for all CrossFitters. You can submit a workout of your choice and others can vote on that workout. If yours is the most voted, then it will become the workout of the day, the very next day.…