API Authentication with Laravel Sanctum: Tokens, Abilities and SPA Auth
How Sanctum handles both SPA cookie authentication and mobile API tokens, and how to scope tokens with abilities instead of all-or-nothing access.
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Handling File Uploads and Image Processing in Laravel
A practical guide to validating uploads, storing them safely, and generating resized image variants in a Laravel application.
Laravel Events, Listeners and Observers: Taming Side Effects in Controllers
Using events, listeners and model observers to move side effects like notifications and cache clearing out of controllers and into named classes.
Cache Invalidation Patterns in Laravel: Tags, Stampede Protection and TTLs
Beyond basic Cache::remember calls: how to invalidate cached data correctly and avoid cache stampedes under load.
Zero-Downtime Database Migrations for Laravel Applications
How to change a production schema without locking tables or breaking the currently deployed code, using an expand-and-contract approach.
Testing Laravel Applications with Pest: A Practical Starting Point
An introduction to writing Laravel feature and unit tests with Pest, including datasets, expectations and what's actually worth testing.
Designing Versioned API Resources in Laravel That Don't Break Clients
A practical approach to API versioning in Laravel using resource classes, so you can evolve a response shape without breaking existing clients.
Eloquent Relationships and Query Scopes: Patterns for Cleaner Models
How to use relationships, local scopes and query builder macros to keep business logic out of controllers and in models where it belongs.
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