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Improving Ignition's security

A few days ago, you might have received a Dependabot security warning on Ignition concerning a remote code execution vulnarablity. This post on the Flare blog explains why most people shouldn't be effected by this.
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Laravel WorldWide Meetup #7: signing in with Laravel and how the Laracon Online website was built

Here's a recording of the Laravel Worldwide Meetup #7.Miguel Piedrafita talked about the various options of signing in with Laravel. After that, Caneco shared some of the secrets behind the Laracon Online website.
Fibers in PHP: A new opportunity for async PHP?

It looks like PHP will get fibers soon with PHP 8.1! That's awesome! Or is it?
Why and how you should remove inactive users and teams

There are many SaaS applications that allow potential new customers to try out the service using a trial period. You should probably clean up these users to avoid keeping their personal data indefinitely.
How to Unit Test a Laravel API with the Pest Framework

In this tutorial, we'll be looking at how to get started using Pest in a Laravel project. Using the test-driven approach, we'll be building a simple to-do application that allows you to create, edit, update and delete tasks.
Improving Google Maps Performance on Large Datasets

Here are some hot tips for mapping large datasets on Google Maps, without sacrificing performance.
Vite with Laravel

Vite is a frontend build tool like webpack. Instead of bundling development assets, Vite serves native ES modules transpiled with esbuild from the dev server. This means there's a lot less bundling to do, and results in a very fast developer experience.
Nodes and the Visitor pattern

Learn why, when and how to structure your data as a cluster of nodes and how to execute various operations on that cluster via external visitors.
Maximizing response caching in Laravel

Response caching is like a progressive enhancement. It will make your app faster in some ways, and some cases, but your app must work perfectly well without it.
Composer Security Hardening

Security precautions Composer already has, and what you can do to improve them further.
Using a HasOne over a HasMany relationship in Laravel

When you are working with a one-to-many relationship, it is sometimes the case that a particular instance on the "many" side of the relationship is flagged as unique and important to your system in some way. It can be really handy to be able to access that unique instance in a first class way from your models.
Using Tailwind's JIT compiler with Laravel Mix

As a predominantly Laravel developer that is accustomed to Laravel Mix, I wanted to see how to get Tailwind's JIT compiler working with Laravel Mix, and was pleasantly surprised that it was quite simple and just works.

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Community Links

Did you write or stumbled across a blog post, tutorial or video that might be good to appear in this section? Submit it here.

content-visibility: auto and the scrollbar problem (submitted by Adithya)
Manual auth in Laravel: registering (submitted by Jeroen van Rensen)
Deleting Laravel Redis Queue Jobs (submitted by Sir Src)
Getting previous and next record in Laravel (submitted by Sir Src)
How email validation works in Laravel using `egulias/email-validation` package (submitted by Zubair Mohsin)
💬 Proposing a new approach for 'Gutenberg and Decoupled Applications' (submitted by Leonardo Losoviz)
How markdown emails work in Laravel using `league/commonmark` package (submitted by Zubair Mohsin)
Manual auth in Laravel: signing in and out (submitted by Jeroen van Rensen)
How Laravel uses `league/flysystem` package to create robust Filesystem (submitted by Zubair Mohsin)
80 Laravel Interview Questions (submitted by Ali)
How to Schedule Artisan Commands from Your Laravel Package (submitted by Ryan Chandler)
Orbit - flat-file Eloquent driver (submitted by Ryan Chandler)
Degoogling Your Analytics With Umami and Forge (submitted by Peter)
Releasing Blade Icons v1.0 (submitted by Dries Vints)
Nested comments in Laravel (submitted by Jeroen van Rensen)
Laravel HTTP Client Retry Without Throwing an Exception (submitted by Leonel Elimpe)
Selling digital products to unauthenticated users with Paddle and Cashier (submitted by Felix Schmid)
How Logging works in Laravel using `monolog/monolog` package (submitted by Zubair Mohsin)
Proof of Concept: Load any route into a modal with Inertia.js using Laravel and Vue.js (submitted by Pascal Baljet)
Eloquent relationships explained (with examples) (submitted by Jeroen van Rensen)
Storing Laravel Users on Disk in Flat-Files (submitted by Ryan Chandler)
Hosting all your PHP packages together in a monorepo (submitted by Leonardo Losoviz)
💁🏻‍♀️ Why the GraphQL API needs a Monorepo, and How it's optimized (submitted by Leonardo Losoviz)
How date and time work in Laravel using `nesbot/carbon` package (submitted by Zubair Mohsin)
Franklin: an international address input (submitted by Chris)
Manual auth in Laravel: password confirmation (submitted by Jeroen van Rensen)
Introducing Inertia.js Tables: a DataTables-like package for Laravel Query Builder (submitted by Pascal Baljet)
How closures are serialized in Laravel using `opis/closure` package (submitted by Zubair Mohsin)
Elasticsearch timezone issue with Laravel (submitted by Adithya)

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