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Written by Tony Lea - 2 minute read
AdonisJS is a Node framework that feels a lot like Laravel. In fact, many of the features feel and act very similar to Laravel. In this quick tutorial, I'll show you how to get set up with a simple Adonis application and create a few routes. Let's be...
Written by Tony Lea - 5 minute read
Laravel Gates allows you to authorize users from accessing certain areas of your application. You can easily define gates in your application and then use them to allow or deny access. Let's start things off with a simple example of granting access w...
Written by Tony Lea - 2 minute read
I recently learned about the Laravel Eloquent Make command, which allows you to create an Eloquent object without adding it to the database. To fully understand this, I'll start by creating a new Laravel app with a posts table. Create a new Laravel A...
Written by Tony Lea - 2 minute read
Laravel Livewire 2.0 was released a couple of months ago with some really cool features 🙌. One of which is the ability to share variable data between Livewire and Alpine! This is a really cool feature because it's as if your PHP variables can now be ...
Written by Tony Lea - 2 minute read
Laravel Livewire simplifies so many aspects of building out your Laravel application. Livewire makes it easy to send data from the client to the server and from the server back to the client. It's kind of like Ajax and Laravel hooked up 💖 to create L...
Written by Tony Lea - 4 minute read
You are probably familiar with the ls command, but do you know how to use all the different options? In this interactive tutorial, you will learn the different ways to use the following command: $ ls [options] [file|dir] Interactive Guide There is a...
Written by Tony Lea - 3 minute read
As of Tailwind 1.7, you can create gradients without a single line of CSS 🎨. In this tutorial, I'll show you how easy it is to add gradients to your designs using Tailwind. Each gradient will typically have a few colors. It will have a start color an...
Written by Tony Lea - 2 minute read
Digital Ocean will soon be releasing a cool new Application Platform that will allow you to build, deploy, manage, and scale apps easier than ever before! If you already thought deploying apps with Digital Ocean was easy, you're in for a treat. A cou...
Written by Tony Lea - 3 minute read
Creating a slider with Tailwind and a little bit of javascript is actually very simple and that's what we'll be cover in this tutorial. First, we'll create the HTML and CSS for our slider, and then we will add the slider functionality with a little b...
Written by Tony Lea - 2 minute read
Tailwind transitions classes gives you the ability to animate elements with very little effort. The only problem is that you can't implement animations using the transition classes alone. In this tutorial, you will learn how we can solve this with so...