Laravel collection manipulation, filtering and pagination

In this tutorial we’ll look into a couple of important functions to manipulate or filter out data from a Laravel collection along with their impact on pagination. First, we’ll setup a Laravel 9 app with relevant data, routes and view, then we’ll use collection’s map() and filter() functions to demonstrate their functionality and pagination behavior … Read more

Using faker in Laravel 9 to generate test / dummy data

It’s obviously cumbersome to enter all the data in the tables in your app for testing purposes. That’s where factories and faker come handy in generating tons of data on the fly. So, in this tutorial we’ll use factory and faker in Laravel 9 in order to generate fake / dummy data for testing purposes. … Read more

Top programming languages 2022-2025

This article will highlight what actually matters right now and how programming languages landscape is shaping up in shorter to medium term. The article will only cover the real programming languages, therefore just set aside HTML, CSS, SQL, Bash / shell script etc. for a while. So, without further ado, let’s go! Here are top … Read more

Data Analysis using Python – A Quick Exercise

Let’s start data analysis with Python right away. Open up the browser and enter following URL: https://www.anaconda.com/products/distribution Press on Download button. After download is complete, open the Downloads folder in your computer and find the file named Anaconda3… now start installation. Just click Next on each screen. Once installation in finished, press Start button of … Read more

Simple search in Laravel 9 app using Livewire

In previous article we employed Fetch API to make AJAX calls from within Alpine.js in order to dynamically update the data table from backend database. Now let’s make life easier by introducing Livewire. In this article, we’ll incorporate simple search capability utilizing Livewire component in Laravel 9 app. So, let’s buckle up! Laravel 9.x requires … Read more

AJAX search field in Laravel 9 app using Alpine.js

What we learned in previous article is simple search within the data which is already available to client; let’s up the ante and employ Fetch API to make AJAX calls from within Alpine.js in order to dynamically update the data table from backend database. Laravel 9.x requires a minimum PHP version of 8.0. This tutorial … Read more

Simple search in Laravel 9 app using Alpine.js

In this tutorial we’ll build simple search / filter capability using Alpine.js in a Laravel 9 app, so that when you start typing in the search input field, the data presented in the data table is filtered in accordance with the input. Laravel 9.x requires a minimum PHP version of 8.0. This tutorial assumes that … Read more

Spatie Permission in Laravel 9 app using Breeze

In this tutorial we’ll create a Laravel 9 app using Breeze and then we’ll incorporate Spatie Permission for managing roles and permissions. Laravel 9.x requires a minimum PHP version of 8.0. This tutorial assumes that you are using Linux, MacOS or WSL on Windows and Node.js, Composer and PHP 8 along with required modules i.e … Read more

Git and Github quick tutorial

If you’re new to source code management, kindly note that Git and Github are two different things: Git is the version control system to manage the source code; it’s like a command line utility which we install on our local system to manage different versions / changes of our source code. Whereas Github is an … Read more

Laravel – which front to choose?

There was time in webapp development when employing Bootstrap and jQuery at frontend were the most favored options. Then there were heavyweight JS frameworks like Angular, React, Vue to handle interactivity and making webapps’ UI reactive – this gave rise to SPA (Single Page Application). SPAs are actually webapps but behave more like desktop applications … Read more