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01

Laravel Database Per Tenant: On the Fly Connections for a Multi Tenant App

Giving every tenant their own database is one of those things that sounds hard until you see how Laravel actually wires up a connection. Once...
02

Deploy Laravel on a DigitalOcean Droplet with Caddy: A 2026 Guide

This is the guide I wish I had the first time I put a Laravel app on a real server. It walks you from an empty DigitalOcean droplet to a Larav...
03

Database Transactions in Laravel, and the afterCommit Trap

A database transaction groups several queries into one all or nothing unit. Either every query succeeds and the changes stick, or one of them...
Laravel Laravel View all Laravel posts →
Database Transactions in Laravel, and the afterCommit Trap
Laravel · Jan 2026

Database Transactions in Laravel, and the afterCommit Trap

A database transaction groups several queries into one all or nothing unit. Either every query succeeds and th...
How Laravel Horizon Works
Laravel · Nov 2025

How Laravel Horizon Works

Laravel Horizon is a queue manager for Redis queues. It gives you a single config file to describe how your jo...
Introduction to Exception Handling in Laravel
Laravel · Oct 2025

Introduction to Exception Handling in Laravel

Every Laravel application sits inside a big try and catch that you never wrote. When a request comes in and yo...
Introduction to Redis with Laravel
Laravel · Feb 2026

Introduction to Redis with Laravel

Redis is a storage server that keeps your data in memory, which makes reading and writing extremely fast. It c...
Laravel Queue Workers: How They Work
Laravel · Oct 2025

Laravel Queue Workers: How They Work

A queue worker sounds mysterious until you see what it actually is: a plain PHP process running in the backgro...
Multi-Tenancy in Laravel: The Decisions and Gotchas Before You Build
Laravel · Nov 2025

Multi-Tenancy in Laravel: The Decisions and Gotchas Before You Build

A multi tenant application serves many separate customers from one codebase, while keeping each customer's dat...
Vue.js Vue.js View all Vue.js posts →
Computed Properties in Vue 3
Vue.js · Apr 2026

Computed Properties in Vue 3

A computed property is not stored data, it is a cached getter. You read it like a property, but behind it is a...
Watchers in Vue 3: watch and watchEffect
Vue.js · Sep 2025

Watchers in Vue 3: watch and watchEffect

Watchers run a side effect when reactive data changes: fetch on a query change, validate on input, sync to sto...
Vue Router: Routing a Vue SPA
Vue.js · Oct 2025

Vue Router: Routing a Vue SPA

A single-page app swaps views without full page reloads, but it still needs URLs, so pages can be bookmarked,...
Vue 3 Reactivity: ref, reactive, and the Whole API
Vue.js · Jun 2025

Vue 3 Reactivity: ref, reactive, and the Whole API

Reactivity is what makes Vue feel magical: change a value, the DOM updates. But the magic only works if you ma...
State Management with Pinia
Vue.js · Mar 2026

State Management with Pinia

When state needs to be shared across many components, provide/inject starts to creak and you want a real store...
Props and Emits in Vue 3
Vue.js · Oct 2025

Props and Emits in Vue 3

Components talk to each other in two directions: data flows down through props, and events flow up through emi...
React React View all React posts →
Memoisation in React: useMemo, useCallback and React.memo
React · Mar 2026

Memoisation in React: useMemo, useCallback and React.memo

React re-renders often, and that is fine, because a render is usually cheap. Memoisation is how you skip the r...
Custom Hooks: Extracting and Reusing Logic in React
React · Dec 2025

Custom Hooks: Extracting and Reusing Logic in React

The moment two components need the same stateful logic, fetching data, tracking the window size, a toggle with...
State Management in React: Context, Redux Toolkit and Zustand
React · Sep 2025

State Management in React: Context, Redux Toolkit and Zustand

State management in React gets talked about as if you need a big library on day one. You usually do not. Most...
useContext: Sharing State Without Prop Drilling
React · Mar 2026

useContext: Sharing State Without Prop Drilling

Prop drilling is the slow pain of passing a value down through layers of components that do not care about it,...
useEffect: Effects, Cleanup and the Dependency Array
React · Sep 2025

useEffect: Effects, Cleanup and the Dependency Array

useEffect is the hook people reach for too often and understand too little. Its job is narrow: synchronise you...
useState and How React Re-renders
React · Sep 2025

useState and How React Re-renders

useState is the first hook everyone learns, and on the surface it is simple: a value and a function to change...
Symfony Symfony View all Symfony posts →
Symfony Forms
Symfony · Mar 2026

Symfony Forms

Forms are where a lot of an app's work happens: collecting input, mapping it onto your data, validating it, an...
Services and Dependency Injection in Symfony
Symfony · Feb 2026

Services and Dependency Injection in Symfony

Everything in a Symfony app is built around services and dependency injection. If those two words feel abstrac...
Authentication in Symfony
Symfony · Oct 2025

Authentication in Symfony

Authentication answers one question: who is this user? Symfony's security system handles it, and while it has...
Controllers and the Request-Response Lifecycle in Symfony
Symfony · Aug 2025

Controllers and the Request-Response Lifecycle in Symfony

At its heart Symfony does one thing: it takes an HTTP Request and produces an HTTP Response. Everything else,...
Doctrine Entities and the EntityManager in Symfony
Symfony · Oct 2025

Doctrine Entities and the EntityManager in Symfony

Doctrine is the ORM that ships with Symfony, and it lets you work with database rows as plain PHP objects. You...
Routing in Symfony with Attributes
Symfony · Jan 2026

Routing in Symfony with Attributes

Routing is the layer that decides which controller runs for a given URL. Symfony used to keep routes in YAML f...
JavaScript JavaScript View all JavaScript posts →
Closures and the Factory Pattern in JavaScript
JavaScript · Apr 2026

Closures and the Factory Pattern in JavaScript

Closures sound academic until you realise you use them constantly: every callback that remembers a variable, e...
JavaScript Scope, Hoisting and References
JavaScript · Jun 2025

JavaScript Scope, Hoisting and References

A lot of confusing JavaScript bugs trace back to three fundamentals: how variables are scoped, when they come...
JavaScript Promises and async/await
JavaScript · May 2026

JavaScript Promises and async/await

JavaScript runs one line at a time, but network calls, timers, and file reads take time. Promises are how the...
Essential JavaScript Array Methods
JavaScript · Dec 2025

Essential JavaScript Array Methods

Most day-to-day JavaScript is moving data through arrays: transforming it, filtering it, summing it, reshaping...
ES6 Modules: import and export
JavaScript · Dec 2025

ES6 Modules: import and export

Before ES modules, splitting JavaScript across files meant leaky globals or awkward IIFE tricks. ES modules ga...
Arrow Functions and this in JavaScript
JavaScript · Dec 2025

Arrow Functions and this in JavaScript

this is the part of JavaScript that quietly breaks more code than any other, and arrow functions are the tool...
Flutter Flutter View all Flutter posts →
The Flutter Widget Tree and BuildContext Explained
Flutter · Feb 2026

The Flutter Widget Tree and BuildContext Explained

You hear "everything is a widget" on day one of Flutter, but it takes a while to feel what that mean...
Navigation and Routing in Flutter with go_router
Flutter · Jul 2025

Navigation and Routing in Flutter with go_router

Sooner or later your app has more than one screen, and you need a way to move between them. Flutter ships with...
Flutter Layout: Row, Column and the Constraints Model
Flutter · Dec 2025

Flutter Layout: Row, Column and the Constraints Model

Layout is where Flutter feels strange if you are coming from CSS. There is no display: flex to reach for and n...
Async in Flutter: Future, async/await and FutureBuilder
Flutter · Mar 2026

Async in Flutter: Future, async/await and FutureBuilder

Almost every app loads something: a profile, a list, a search result. That data takes time to arrive, and if y...
State Management in Flutter: setState, Provider and Riverpod
Flutter · Feb 2026

State Management in Flutter: setState, Provider and Riverpod

Every app has to manage state, and Flutter does not force one way to do it. That freedom is good, but it also...
Stateless vs Stateful Widgets in Flutter
Flutter · Dec 2025

Stateless vs Stateful Widgets in Flutter

In Flutter everything on screen is a widget, and every widget you write is one of two kinds: stateless or stat...
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