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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 popular i can ...
Written by Tony Lea - 4 minute read
The awesome world of Web3 is fascinating; however, there are so many acronyms that it may have you scratch'n the ol'noggin a few times. In this post, I want to help you out by decoding 10 Popular Web3 Acronyms to help you along your journey 🕺 1. Web3...
Written by Tony Lea - 2 minute read
If you're a developer, you should be excited about virtual currency. It's like living in a real-life Mario Bros game, collecting coins that have real value. {% giphy https://giphy.com/embed/R6E4NbCNDk5FjnsW7N %} Unfortunately, there is so much to lea...