Speeding Up Laravel Tests with tmpfs (MySQL in RAM)
If your Laravel test suite is painfully slow and does a lot of database work (multi-tenancy, migrations, seeding), the bottleneck is almost certainly disk I/O. Not CPU, not…
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Laravel’s $touches Property: Automatic Parent Timestamp Updates
Laravel's $touches property automatically updates parent model timestamps when child models are modified. Basic Usage class Comment extends Model { protected $touches = ['post']; public function post() {…
Read articleCreating PDFs with Chart.js charts in Laravel using wkhtmltopdf
Rendering Chart.js charts into PDFs with wkhtmltopdf can be surprisingly tricky. wkhtmltopdf uses QtWebKit (an older browser engine), while Chart.js draws on an HTML5 canvas and often assumes…
Read articleLaravel Factories
In Laravel, a Factory is a class dedicated to generating instances of your Eloquent models. They solve a fundamental problem: your application needs data to function, especially during…
Read articleFix Insane Disk I/O in Laravel Sail: Disable MySQL Binary Logs
Is your Docker-based development environment sluggish? Do your fans spin up for no reason? If you run docker stats, do you see your MySQL container writing gigabytes of…
Read articleDo Not Use Laravel Cache Tags (And What You Should Use Instead)
Laravel's cache tags feature only works with Redis and Memcached. Using it with other cache drivers (file, database, DynamoDB, array) will throw exceptions. This creates problems when switching…
Read articleRendering Bard Content to HTML in Statamic
When working with Statamic's Bard fieldtype programmatically, you'll often need to convert its structured data to HTML. The documentation doesn't make this obvious, but here's how to do…
Read articleTesting Statamic Addons
This guide shows you how to test Statamic addons effectively. Testing addons is different from testing regular PHP packages because they depend on Statamic's core functionality, which often…
Read articleBuilding Custom UIs with AJAX in Statamic Addons
Creating custom UI components in Statamic addons with AJAX functionality is poorly documented, making it frustrating to implement. This guide shows you exactly how to build Vue components,…
Read articleCreating Statamic Addons
This guide walks you through creating a Statamic addon from scratch. We'll build a real addon that adds functionality to your Statamic installation. What You're Building By the…
Read articleMaking Cursor IDE AI Agents Use Sail Instead of PHP or Composer Directly
When developing Laravel projects with Docker and Sail, it’s important that all commands use Sail to ensure the environment is consistent. However, the AI models and agents in…
Read articleAdding Laravel Sail to Existing Projects: Solving the Database Driver Chicken-and-Egg Problem
When trying to add Laravel Sail to an existing project, you often encounter a classic catch-22 situation. You need to run php artisan sail:install to set up your…
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