Mike Rockétt

The elegant wrapper, Weasyprint for Laravel v5 is released with a bunch of new features and changes.

Browsers have caught up – developers should too.

Making resource classes just a bit easier to work with.

Using helpers and scopes in a trait, make the model responsible for determining its resource class.

Vue Routisan has a new life – a v3 alpha has been released for testing!

Seriously, it’s overkill, and much of what goes on can be replaced with observable objects.

A cleaner way to validate console input.

In the world of JavaScript modules, default exports are really a compatibility layer for CommonJS-of-old. Named exports solve problems may developers experience – this post explores them.

Some useful shell aliases for your development pleasure.

It’s not uncommon to follow the default approach and register global Vue components manually. But there’s a better way. Two of them, in fact. And we can do it for Vuex too, but that’s for another post.

Starting afresh in 2020, with a new blog, in a new decade.

Shorter code is great. Even shorter code is even better. In this post, you'll learn how to drastically shorten the length of your Vuex mutations, making for some really clean code.

Since November 2017, I’ve been working with a small web-dev firm that uses Laravel for all its clients’ API backends. Over time, we’ve been taking new approaches to solving problems, and simplifying our code to make life easier in the long run. Here are some quick and useful tips we’ve been following as part of this process.

From Laravel 5.5, JSON responses are a little different. In particular, you’ll find that validation exceptions have changed, and it’s easy to miss what the upgrade guide says about it.

If you’re on Windows, chances are you don’t have a handy package like Valet to make your development-workflow easier. If you’re using a standard Apache installation, this might go a long way in speeding things up.