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Creating your own color system with Tailwind
In this post, Oh Dear’s front end developer Nick goes into more detail on why and how he implemented a tailwind-like color system that will be used in the upcoming redesign. Read more
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★ How to add a spotlight-like search field to your Laravel app
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As developers, we tend to like shortcuts to speed up our workflow. One of the tools I'm using to speed up doing stuff on my Mac is Raycast. It offers a lovely command palette that allows opening apps and URLs, working with clipboard history, and much more.
Wouldn't it be nice to also add such a command palette to a Laravel app? This way, power users of your app can get around quickly and perform small tasks without having to click around.
The good news is that there's already a package to add such a thing: Spotlight by Philo Hermans. In this blog post, I'd like to show how we use this fantastic package at Oh Dear.
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How to send e-mails in Laravel with Tailwind CSS
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to send e-mails from Laravel with Tailwind CSS. I’ll learn you how to set this up and how to inline all the Tailwind CSS-classes. Read more
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The Gambler's Ruin, Illustrated with PHP
Jeffrey Way of Laracasts demonstrates what the Gambler’s Ruin is using PHP. Read more
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Extensible Blade Components
In this post, Marcus explains the fundamentals of Blade components. A great introduction or review, this post walks you through the process of creating an extensible button component that contains the code common between button Read more…
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Laravels Command Bus
In Laravel 5.1 the Command Bus was replaced with Dispatchable Jobs, we can still use them but let us also look at how to add a Command Bus. Read more
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Bringing page transitions to the web
Here’s a cool feature the Chrome team is working on. It’s already available in Canary.
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Adapter Pattern in PHP
Of all of the design patterns you could use in your code, the adapter pattern is one of my all time favourites. It allows you to abstract the implementation to an adapter that implements an Read more…
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Testing API responses in pestPHP
I get asked about API response testing a lot, how should you do it, and where to start. I have a general rule when it comes to testing APIs, and that rule is: “test your Read more…
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Building Oh Dear’s new design: Implementing the design
Here’s a new blog post by our designer Nick on how he’s revamping the looks of Oh Dear. Read more