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Queue Job Batching in Laravel: How It Works
Aug 2025 · Laravel

Queue Job Batching in Laravel: How It Works

Job batching lets you dispatch a group of jobs to run in parallel across your workers, then run code when the...
Running the Same Queued Job Multiple Times
Aug 2025 · Laravel

Running the Same Queued Job Multiple Times

Sometimes one job needs to run several times, spaced out, until a condition is met. The trick is a job that re...
Get All Dates Between Two Dates in Laravel
Aug 2025 · Laravel

Get All Dates Between Two Dates in Laravel

Sometimes you need every individual date between two dates, for example to build a timesheet or a payroll shee...
Finding the Nearest Records by GPS Coordinates in Laravel
Aug 2025 · Laravel

Finding the Nearest Records by GPS Coordinates in Laravel

I built this for a food delivery app. A user opens the app and wants restaurants within, say, one kilometre of...
The setup() Function in Vue 3
Aug 2025 · Vue.js

The setup() Function in Vue 3

setup() is the entry point to the Composition API. It is where you create reactive state, computed values, and...
How Laravel's Notification System Works
Aug 2025 · Laravel

How Laravel's Notification System Works

Laravel's notification system makes it easy to send the same message to your users across many channels: email...
Opening URLs in Flutter with url_launcher
Jul 2025 · Flutter

Opening URLs in Flutter with url_launcher

Apps regularly need to hand off to another app: open a website, dial a number, start an email, drop a pin in m...
Single File Components and script setup
Jul 2025 · Vue.js

Single File Components and script setup

A Single File Component, the .vue file, packs a component's markup, logic, and styles into one place. It is ho...
Introduction to Redis Hashes
Jul 2025 · Laravel

Introduction to Redis Hashes

When you find yourself making lots of keys that share a prefix, like shop:42:product:1:sales, shop:42:product:...
Navigation and Routing in Flutter with go_router
Jul 2025 · Flutter

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...
Reading NFC Tags in Flutter with nfc_manager
Jul 2025 · Flutter

Reading NFC Tags in Flutter with nfc_manager

NFC is the tap-to-read tech behind contactless payments, transit cards, and the little stickers that open a UR...
Vue 3 Composables: Patterns and Best Practices
Jul 2025 · Vue.js

Vue 3 Composables: Patterns and Best Practices

A composable is not a framework feature. It is just a function whose name starts with use, that leans on Vue's...
Portals in React with createPortal
Jul 2025 · React

Portals in React with createPortal

Modals, tooltips, and dropdown menus all share a problem: they need to break out of wherever they are declared...
Console Commands in Symfony
Jul 2025 · Symfony

Console Commands in Symfony

Not everything an app does happens in response to a web request. Cron jobs, data imports, nightly cleanups, on...
Connecting Laravel to a PostgreSQL Database
Jul 2025 · MySQL

Connecting Laravel to a PostgreSQL Database

PostgreSQL is a strong choice for a Laravel app, and Laravel supports it as a first class driver. Connecting t...
Using Multiple Database Connections in Laravel
Jul 2025 · Laravel

Using Multiple Database Connections in Laravel

A reader once described a common setup to me: a master database and a replica that copies from it. The default...
Immutable State Updates in React
Jul 2025 · React

Immutable State Updates in React

One rule causes more "but I changed the state, why didn't the UI update" bugs than any other in Reac...
CSRF Protection in Laravel
Jul 2025 · Laravel

CSRF Protection in Laravel

CSRF stands for cross site request forgery. It is an attack where another site tricks a logged in user's brows...
Working with Polymorphic Relationships in Laravel
Jul 2025 · Laravel

Working with Polymorphic Relationships in Laravel

Imagine you need documents on several different things in your system: employees, customers, companies. The ob...
Conditional and List Rendering in React, and Why Keys Matter
Jul 2025 · React

Conditional and List Rendering in React, and Why Keys Matter

Two things show up in almost every component: deciding whether to show something, and rendering a list of thin...