The Laravel Podcast

In this episode we talk with Taylor Otwell about the first-party Laravel packages Socialite, Scout, and Sail. Socialite is a tool for authenticating users with other login providers, and makes it easy to add a login with GitHub authentication flow to your application. Scout provides a simple, driver based solution for adding full-text search to your Eloquent models. Finally, Sail is a light-weight...

In this episode we talk with Joseph Silber about the third-party Laravel package Bouncer, an authorization package which allows the user to quickly create and manage roles and abilities. As an additional note, the lovely outro music--like last time Joseph was on the podcast--was a recording he made himself! Joseph Silber's Website - https://josephsilber.com/ Joseph Silber's Twitter - https://twitt...

In this episode we talk with Dries Vints about the first-party Laravel package Cashier, which provides an easy, fluent interface to Stripe's subscription billing services. We discuss the two different versions of this package and how to determine which one is best for your needs. Dries Vints' Twitter - https://twitter.com/driesvints Dries Vints' Github - https://github.com/driesvints Dries Vints'...

In this episode, we talk with Taylor Otwell about the first-party Laravel auth packages Passport and Sanctum. We discuss the history of how they came to be, their differences, and which of the two might better serve your needs. Taylor Otwell's Twitter - https://twitter.com/taylorotwell Laravel, Twitter - https://twitter.com/laravelphp Laravel, Website - https://laravel.com/ Laravel Docs: Passport...

In this episode, we talk with Barry vd. Heuvel, creator of Laravel Debugbar. A package provides an overview that allows you to quickly & easily see what’s going on inside your application. We talk about how he got started & various features. Barry’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/barryvdh Fruitcake - https://fruitcake.nl/ GitHub - https://github.com/barryvdh Laravel Debugbar - https://githu...

In this episode, Arne Schoenmakers and Patrick Brouwers talk about Spartner’s popular package, Laravel excel. It is a supercharged, simple way to export and import powerful excel data. Spartner, website - https://spartner.software/ Spartner, Twitter- https://twitter.com/spartnerNL Arne Schoenmakers, Twitter - https://twitter.com/arneschoenmaker Patrick Brouwers, Twitter - https://twitter.com/patri...

In the first episode of season 5, Taylor Otwell joins us to talk about the packages Fortify, Breeze, Jetstream, and Spark. We discuss the differences between each one and which package is a great place to start. Taylor Otwell - https://twitter.com/taylorotwell     Laravel, Twitter - https://twitter.com/laravelphp Laravel, Website - https://laravel.com/ Laravel Docs: Fortify - https://laravel.com/d...

The Laravel Podcast brings you Laravel and PHP development news and discussion. Season 5 consists of Matt Stauffer interviewing the creators of the most popular packages in the Laravel ecosystem. ----- Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten .

We all use third party packages in our Laravel applications, and even Laravel itself is composed of packages. But how do they work? How do you pick the best packages? What can packages actually do? In this episode Laravel's most prolific package authors join us and answer these questions and many more. Freek Van der Herten, Twitter - https://twitter.com/freekmurze Freek’s blog - https://freek.dev/...

As much as we all wish our apps would just run forever, in reality, they need some tender love and care in order to keep running smoothly and safely. That means we need to know how to upgrade them! Laravel upgrade master Jason McCreary joins us to talk about the upgrading process and his product, Laravel Shift, which automates away much of the cost of upgrading. Jason McCreary, Twitter - https://t...

One of the most common questions that the Laravel docs just can't answer for you is "How and where do I deploy my Laravel app?" There are a ton of options, but a few recommended options, and Chris Fidao, creator of Servers for Hackers, knows all of them and takes this episode to walk us through the most common setups and important tips to remember and gotchas to avoid. Chris Fidao, Twitter: https:...

Some times events, jobs, and queues can feel a bit overwhelming, and sometimes they can feel so simple it feels like you're doing it wrong. Mohamed Said is not just the expert on how queues work, he's the expert on thinking how best to use them and how best not to use them. In this episode we talk about how to use queues, and how to think in a way that makes sense for queues, and we also take a qu...

It's every application developer's nightmare: your app gets hacked and everyone's private data is out in the open, and it's your fault. Thankfully, Laravel and the tools it brings have the best security practices baked in. But a framework can only save us from so much. In this episode, security advocate and UX Designer (the UX part matters! Listen to find out why) talks about what Laravel gives us...

Laravel's Collections were popularized by Adam Wathan's book "Refactoring to Collections", but if you haven't read the book you may be left wondering exactly what they are and how we work with them. And you've likely seem some of the common global helpers—app(), auth()—but there are dozens that even the most experienced Laravel programmers don't always know about! In this episode helper & coll...

Laravel has two primary notification systems: Mail and Notifications. What do each do? How do you use them? When should you use one or the other? Active community member and Wilbur group programmer WIlbur Powery joins us to talk about these two key systems Wilbur Powery’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/wilburpowery Wilbur’s Blog - https://wilburpowery.dev/ Wilbur’s GitHub - https://github.com/wilbu...

We all interact with APIs, even if we don't write them, right? The APIs that power our mobile apps, the APIs we use in our code. But Jess Archer wants you to know there's a whole wide world of what API even means, broader than we usually use it... but then we'll also get down to the real details about the best practices for writing web-based RESTish APIs in Laravel. Jess Archer Twitter - https://t...

Laravel offers two systems for accessing the filesystem: the File facade and the Storage facade. The Storage facade wraps a package called "Flysystem", and in this episode Flysystem creator Frank de Jonge talks about how Laravel's storage and file systems work and talks about some best practices for working with them. Frank de Jonge Twitter - https://twitter.com/frankdejonge Frank on GitHub - http...

Some of the most important pieces of Laravel are still those which don't fit neatly into broader categories. In this episode we cover those and somehow even manage to tie them together in a mega episode with four neat and clean introductions. Samantha Geitz Twitter Account - https://twitter.com/SamanthaGeitz Samantha Geitz website - https://samanthageitz.com/   The Laravel Podcast, Season 3: Inter...

You may not know it, but the service container — also known as the container, the IOC container, the DI container, or just "the application" — is that the core of every Laravel application. It's the glue that holds it all together! In this episode, author of Laravel Core Adventures Christoph Rumpel helps us dig deeply into what the container is and why it's good for you to know about it. Christoph...

While Laravel is a web framework, many of our interactions with our apps—whether when writing them or when using them—happens on the command line. In this episode, Laravel employee and creator of Laravel Zero Nuno Maduro joins us to talk about the CLI and the tools Laravel exposes for us to interact with it via the CLI. Nuno’s Twitter Account - https://twitter.com/enunomaduro Nuno’s Blog - https:/...

Learning how to test your applications can be overwhelming. In this episode, testing master Adam Wathan, author of TailwindCSS and host of Full Stack Radio, joins us in another role: The creator of Test-Driven Laravel. Learn about all the basics of automated testing, how to write and run tests in Laravel, and much more. Adam Wathan’s Twitter Account - https://twitter.com/adamwathan Adam’s Blog - h...

 Webpack seems to be the brunt of every joke around JavaScript tooling these days, but somehow it still sticks around--probably because it's the most powerful tool we've got! Learn how Laravel Mix helps us tame Webpack and, with very simple configuration and some helpful conventions, gets us up and running with pre-processed JavaScript and CSS in no time! Jordan Pittman Twitter - https://twitter.c...

One of the most powerful tools in creating Laravel apps quickly is how much you can get done in an app that just contains the skeleton scaffold Laravel comes with. The frontend presets, which in Laravel 8+ are now contained in a tool called Jetstream, allow you to scaffold your frontend build tooling and user registration, login, and management, all with a single command. Learn more in this episod...

If your app has users, it's likely you're going to want to know who they are and what they can--and can't--do. Take a listen to this introduction to the two "auth"'s, authentication and authorization, and how they work in Laravel. Joseph on twitter - https://twitter.com/joseph_silber Joseph's Blog - https://josephsilber.com/posts Joseph on the Laravel Meetup about collections - https://youtu.be/aj...

Eloquent and the Query Builder allow us to interact with our database, but how do we get those databases in the right shape? How do we define their schema, their sample data, or how to run tests against them? In this episode Factory King John Bonaccorsi talks all about these other tools we use every day to interact with our databases. John on Twitter ( https://twitter.com/imjohnbon) Laravel Docs o...