I’ve spent a number of years writing on Medium, and I’ve really enjoyed the experience. However, after waiting forever for Medium to provide some better tools for writing these sorts of technical articles, I’ve realised that it’s probably not going to happen. Therefore, I’ve decided to move some of my…

Webpack is great… but there might be better. — But first… some shameless self promotion Vite is a fantastic piece of software and if you’re keen to see how I got it working with Laravel and Inertia, then read on. However, if you just want it to work, then I’ve written a simple Laravel package that will “boiletplate” this all out for you. It’s called…

It isn’t. PHP is not dead. It isn’t dying and it isn’t reaching “end-of-life”. That’s it. No matter how much some people want it to go away, it isn’t going away. At least, not for a long time. — I’ve been writing this for a while now. Tweaking here and there, but just couldn’t decide when to publish. With the recent release of PHP 8, “now” felt like the right time. Every month I read an article, or a comment or tweet stating that PHP is dying and we…

Tired of those XMLHttpRequest CORS policy errors? Me too. — Here’s a quick one on using Browsersync with Inertia. If you’ve ever tried and you got hung up on those pesky CORS errors that prevent redirects, then maybe I have a workaround for you. The bit about Browsersync Browsersync is one of those tools that just sticks. It has fantastic staying power. When I…

Permissions can be complex. Here’s an easy solution. — tl;dr: If you’re not interested in setting this up yourself and would rather just install a package, I wrote one called Deadbolt. Check it out on GitHub. I’ve built a number of Laravel applications over the years and most of them had some sort of authorisation requirement. Some users should…

My first attempt at zero downtime deployments was exactly what I needed a few years ago. But now, I have something better. — A few years ago, I wrote an article on how to use Envoy to run zero-downtime deployments. That article has been a somewhat popular one. It still gets around 100 reads a week, which I don’t think is all that bad considering I’m definitely NOT a professional writer. That approach…

2019/03/03: I recently updated this post, and there’s quite a number of changes I’ve made. The old post was fairly outdated and needed some attention. I work on a lot of apps that load up an “organisation” or “client” profile based on a sub-domain slug. It’s quite common in multi-tenant…

Update 2019–12–17: I’ve written a second version of this deployment process. This article is still entirely relevant, but if you want a slightly updated process, take a look here. Envoy is one of the most useful tools in the Laravel ecosystem and I use it almost every day. …

NOTE: 18 October 2017 So with the release of Laravel 5.5, this isn’t really needed anymore. Laravel 5.5 now has a package discovery feature so there is no need to add supported packages to your app.php config anymore. Simply install the package and you’re good to go. Here’s a little…