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July 31, 2025

Livewire 4: The Future of PHP Components

Written by Tony Lea - 9 minute read

This week at Laracon Caleb Porzio announced Livewire 4, which comes with unified components, performance improvements, and many more awesome goodies 🤤 Unifying Livewire Caleb takes the stage to address one of the most pressing issues in the Livewire'...

July 30, 2025

Laracon 2025 Keynote

Written by Tony Lea - 9 minute read

This year's Laracon keynote was absolutely insane! There were seven segments packed with open source goodies, AI-powered development tools, and infrastructure that'll make you rethink what modern web development can be. Here's everything that went do...

April 2, 2025

Laravel Wayfinder

Written by Tony Lea - 8 minute read

Laravel has announced a new package called Wayfinder. This package will allow you to easily generate fully-typed, importable TypeScript functions for your controllers and named routes, providing devs with a seamless integration between a Laravel back...

March 22, 2025

Best way to create a React app 2025

Written by Tony Lea - 2 minute read

React is one of the most popular front-end frameworks, even in 2025. So, what's the best way to install a React application? Installing React with Vite The simplest way today is to use Vite. You'll need to have NodeJS installed on your machine, and t...

January 23, 2025

Why PNPM? WTF?

Written by Tony Lea - 2 minute read

If you are not regularly engaged with the JavaScript ecosystem, you may get overwhelmed by all the options available 🄵 In fact, even if you're trenched in the JS ecosystem, you can still feel overwhelmed. Whenever I see something like the following i...

May 31, 2024

Livewire VS Inertia

Written by Tony Lea - 2 minute read

When you start learning Laravel, you will also need to choose a stack that suits your needs and preferences. Livewire or Inertia? Both offer unique benefits and can change how you build your apps. If you find it tough to decide, worry not! I'm here t...

July 25, 2023

Laravel Volt

Written by Tony Lea - 4 minute read

Laravel Volt is a new package that was announced during Laracon 2023. Volt brings the power of single file Livewire components to Laravel and it works seamlessly with Folio. Similar to how React and Vue developers can write single-file components, La...

July 19, 2023

Laravel Folio

Written by Tony Lea - 3 minute read

Laravel Folio is a page-based routing system introduced to Laravel at LaraconUS 2023. With Folio you can map a route to a specific file or folder, similar to the file-based routing systems found in frameworks like NextJS or NuxtJS. How it works Afte...

June 6, 2022

Column/Masonry layouts in TailwindCSS

Written by Tony Lea - 1 minute read

Column layouts or masonry layouts allows you to align images and content in a grid view without additional whitespace. This layout used to be painful to implement in previous versions of CSS; however, thanks to grid columns this is now a breeze to ac...

May 5, 2022

Developer Tips on Becoming Your Own Boss

Written by Tony Lea - 5 minute read

I can pinpoint the moment I got excited about the possibility of becoming my own boss. I stumbled upon a magazine article (yep, magazine... which means it was a while ago). The article featured an interview with the guy who created the popularĀ i can ...

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