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Laravel & PHP 21 posts

03 Jun 2026 Laravel & PHP Multi-Tenant Laravel Pitfalls: Queues, Cache, and Data Leaks The implementation layer nobody blogs about after the architecture choice is made: tenant context lost in queued jobs, cache key collisions, global scopes silently missing on raw queries, an... → 31 May 2026 Laravel & PHP Filament v5 in Production: Admin Panels in Days, Not Weeks What v5's unified schema, native multi-tenancy, and slimmer JS bundle change in practice, with real hour counts from client admin builds. Includes the boundary line: the customizations where... → 28 May 2026 Laravel & PHP A Pragmatic Pest Testing Strategy for Laravel Client Projects What to test when the budget is fixed: feature-tests-first ratios, which units earn dedicated tests, and how Pest's architecture presets and mutation testing fit a solo-freelancer CI. A cand... → 25 May 2026 Laravel & PHP Laravel Sanctum vs Passport: Picking API Auth in 2026 The 90/10 rule — Sanctum for SPAs, mobile, and first-party tokens; Passport only when you are genuinely an OAuth2 authorization server for third parties. Includes token-ability patterns, tes... → 22 May 2026 Laravel & PHP Laravel API Versioning and Resource Design That Ages Well URL-based versioning with per-version controllers and API Resources, and when Laravel 13's first-party JSON:API support is worth adopting over hand-rolled resources. Framed around the freela... → 19 May 2026 Laravel & PHP Laravel Queues at Scale: Horizon Tuning and Idempotent Jobs The failure modes that only show up past ~100k jobs/day: retry_after vs timeout mismatch causing duplicate processing, queue starvation, and non-idempotent retries. Concrete Horizon supervis... → 16 May 2026 Laravel & PHP End-to-End Type Safety with Laravel, Inertia, and React A practical wiring guide: laravel-data + TypeScript Transformer to push typed DTOs from PHP 8.4 to React props, catching contract drift at build time instead of in production. Shows the exac... → 13 May 2026 Laravel & PHP Livewire vs Inertia in 2026: How I Choose for Client Projects A decision framework based on product shape (content site vs tool), team JS skill, and future API needs — not framework hype. Grounded in Livewire 4 / Inertia 3 realities and the freelance a... → 10 May 2026 Laravel & PHP PHP 8.4 Property Hooks in Laravel: Wins, Traps, and Refactors Where hooks and asymmetric visibility genuinely shrink code (DTOs, value objects, form objects) versus where they collide with Eloquent's magic accessors and hydration side effects. Includes... → 07 May 2026 Laravel & PHP Upgrading to Laravel 13: Field Notes from Real Client Codebases Tests the 'zero breaking changes, ten-minute upgrade' promise against real client apps: the PHP 8.3 floor, which new features (native attributes on models, Queue::route(), Cache::touch()) to... → 26 Mar 2026 Laravel & PHP Geofencing without destroying the battery Continuous GPS polling is how location apps earn one-star reviews and uninstalls. The OS-native, server-assisted geofencing setup I use instead — and the numbers behind it. → 15 Mar 2026 Laravel & PHP Sync conflict resolution beyond last-write-wins Last-write-wins is silent data loss with a friendly name. How I resolve sync conflicts deterministically when devices come back after days offline. →