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I came across a small edge-case when using Laravel's Global Scopes after following the example in the documentation. I created an "Active" scope, which can be applied to multiple models. <?php namespace App; use Illuminate\Database\Elo…
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I've just come across a rather annoying problem that is down to a relatively specific set of circumstances. I use the static anaylsis tool PHPStan to check my PHP code. I use the Laravel specific wrapper, developed by nunomaduro, called Larastan whic…
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I have recently been building a new application using Laravel and Nova. For the front-end of the application, I would only like to restrict models to those that are "active". To achieve this, I used the global scope behaviour which makes su…
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Over the first six months of 2021 I have watched 192 movies, none of which I have seen before. Below is a summary of some of my favourites. January It took me far too long to watch the classic movie The Blues Brothers, even more shockingly consideri…
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So, I’ve finally updated my website. It’s been a long time since the last major change, but it wasn’t without trying. It’s not a radical change, the core content is still the same but the underlying technology has been updated to help me continue to…
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I use Laravel to manage my projects and I wanted to integrate the drag and drop code I wrote using Alpine.js, so I built a new component. This Laravel component supports passing in variables which builds up the two sides of the drag and drop listing;…
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Alpine.js is a new lightweight JavaScript framework which uses the approach of adding behaviour directly within your HTML markup. According to the documentation; Alpine.js offers you the reactive and declarative nature of big frameworks like Vue or…
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If you use a component library you might find some disconnect between them and how they're used on a project website. I have a primer about using the component library Fractal and your website. This describes syncing your CSS, JS and assets from the…
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I have recently been using Fractal to build out component libraries for a couple of new projects and I was curious how it would integrate with a project website. I needed a way to using the Fractal component library to integrate with a project websit…
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I have been experimenting with Tailwind CSS and trying to find an approach which fits my development workflow and approach to writing HTML and CSS. Tailwind is a “utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs”. It provides a config…
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