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Loris Leiva

Recreational programming

Laravel deployment using GitLab's pipelines

In this tutorial, we will set up a complex GitLab pipeline that builds our application, tests it and deploys it using Laravel Deployer.

Making CRON expressions human-readable

I’ve released a new PHP library that translates any valid CRON expression into some text that can be read and understood by humans.

Redesigning my blog using Vuepress and TailwindCSS

Moving away from a traditional database blog, I explain why and how I moved to this new stack.

Introducing Javel

Wrap your plain JavaScript objects into customizable Laravel-like models.

Domain Modeling

Conciliating Laravel and DDD

This article focuses on finding common grounds for using Domain-Driven Design in the Laravel framework in a way that leverages a maximum of Laravel features.

Renderless resizable textarea

Following the eye-opening course on Advance Vue Component Design from Adam Wathan, here is a renderless component that resize a textarea based on its content.

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Laravel pagination with TailwindCSS

A better way of designing your Laravel pagination links with TailwindCSS.

Google Calendar part 3: Webhook synchronizations

In this article we'll go one step further and ask the Google API to notify us of any changes that we should be aware of.

Google Calendar part 2: Periodic synchronizations

Learn how to periodically synchronize your users' calendars and events from the Google API.

Google Calendar part 1: Integration

You are about to learn how to allow our users to integrate all of their Google calendars and events within our application. In a series of articles we are going to...

Using GitLab's pipeline with Laravel

GitLab's pipelines can be scary at first (because you know... Docker) but they're really easy to setup and very helpful. Here's how I set up the pipelines of my Laravel applications on Gitlab.

Renderless editable textarea

In this article, we take renderless components one step further by treating them as Facades.

Zero-downtime Laravel deployment in 5 minutes

Deploying your Laravel application without any downtime just got easier. This video helps you get started in 5 minutes only.

Setting up a Laravel server

It's set up time! Let's see how to create and configure a server that can host your Laravel application.

So I wrote my dotfiles...

After a whole weekend dedicated to writing my dotfiles, here’s my reflection on this experience.

Zero-downtime deployment

I released a Laravel package that gives Artisan the power of zero downtime deployment. Get started in three simple steps.

Drag&Drop reordering made easy

When you need a quick drag&drop that reorders your data in VueJS as well as elements in the DOM.

Wrap where clauses

Laravel relationship methods are great to abstract database relationships but they also work really well to abstract complex relationships that span through multiple tables.

Conciliating Laravel and DDD (part 2)

Following a Laravel and DDD friendly architecture, we tackle the challenges of allowing the Eloquent beast to enter our domain layer.

For those time where you don't want the user to delete elements by mistake but don't want to bother him/her with a modal neither.

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