Tagged "laravel"

9 articles tagged laravel.

Redirecting Test Emails Safely in Laravel

A small Laravel feature that prevents a big headache: how Mail::alwaysTo() keeps staging and demo environments from accidentally emailing real users.

Idempotency - what is it, and how can it help our Laravel APIs?

Idempotency is a critical concept to be aware of when building robust APIs, and is baked into the SDKs of companies like Stripe, Paypal, Shopify, and Amazon. But what exactly is idempotency? And how can we easily add support for it to our Laravel APIs?

Calculating rolling averages with Laravel Collections

Rolling averages are perfect for smoothing out time-series data, helping you to gain insight from noisy graphs and tables. This new package adds first-class support to Laravel Collections for rolling average calculation.

Mailcatcher, Vagrant & Laravel: Email testing made easy

When doing any sort of non-trivial development, sooner or later you’ll likely end up having to send emails from your application. Email is a key part of many application for things like event notifications or user account verification. Testing that the right mails get sent at the right times can often be more hassle than it really should be. Fortunately, a tool called Mailcatcher exists to make this process much easier.

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