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March 24th, 2025

How to Create Custom Blade Directives in Laravel

Blade provides a whole host of directives to make templating easier. However, sometimes you need to create your own custom directive to save repeating yourself and clear up your Blade templates.

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Laravel
March 21st, 2025

Textarea User Mentions in Laravel — A Full Guide

This guide covers the process of implementing mentionable things in Laravel (usually users) from start to finish.

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Laravel
Alpine.js
March 20th, 2025

Creating Custom Filesystem Adapters in Laravel

Laravel provides a bunch of filesystem drivers, but what if you need to create your own to support another service, or even overide the way storage works?

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Laravel
March 19th, 2025

Per User File Storage in Laravel

Need to store files per user in Laravel? Let's discuss storing uploads for users in a separate directory to avoid collisions and keep our filesystem organised.

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Laravel
March 4th, 2025

How to Install Jetstream on Laravel 12

Although it won't receive any more feature updates, Laravel Jetstream is still compatible with Laravel 12. Here's how to install it.

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Laravel
March 3rd, 2025

Find the Page Number of a Model in Laravel's Pagination

In this article, I'll show you how to calculate which page a specific model record sits within in Laravel, even if you're dealing with nested relationships.

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Laravel
February 25th, 2025

How to Update the Laravel Installer

The Laravel installer is the easiest way to create a fresh Laravel application, but it'll need updating occasionally. Here's how!

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Laravel
February 25th, 2025

How to Install Laravel Breeze on Laravel 12

With Laravel 12, the Laravel installer no longer gives us the option to install Breeze. Here's how to install Breeze in a fresh Laravel 12 application.

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Laravel
February 12th, 2025

Add These to Every New Laravel Project

Out of the box, Laravel is configured for you to be productive immediately without thinking about much. Let's take it a step further and add some opinionated configuration to improve developer experience.

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Laravel
February 6th, 2025

Textarea Mentions with Alpine.js and Tribute

Adding mention triggers to textareas is easy with Tribute. In this article, we'll set up the ability to type a trigger (like @) and display/search a list of users for insertion.

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Alpine.js
Laravel
JavaScript

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