Passing uploaded files between Laravel Livewire components

I recently discovered a need to be able pass temporary (without being saved to your filesystem) uploaded files using Laravel Livewire for an API that I am building for my 9-5 job. Essentially (thinking with my VueJS cap) I wanted to build a uniform file-upload input that I could use…

Adding documentation to your Laravel Nova installations

Documentation (especially good documentation) for an application can make a good application and experience for a client, a great application. Once we as developers complete an application that we have worked and potentially even lost sleep over, will live on well after we stop working on it.…

Adding Babel support to an AEM instance

This exposé will outline the steps to be able to add Babel support to an existing AEM instance. What is Babel Babel is a compiler/processor of "futuristic" javascript and relative libraries like JSX and Flow. Babel provides you with the tools, whether it be a pre-processor (like…

Posting Angular content to a PHP endpoint

As Angular developers, using HTTP POST/GET requests are part of a utilitarian toolset that we use almost on a daily basis. This is one of the things that makes Angular so great when interacting with API's and other server-side code. We can easily build JSON objects/arrays and quickly…

Automatically switch to a fallback image using Angular

When we as developers are scaffolding a website that utilizes a content management system, one of the largest and most complex UX issues that we encounter is the requirement of field inputs. Essentially, to require or not to require; that is the question. We have to account for the possible…