Adding documentation to your Laravel Nova installations

By Doug Niccum in laravel on

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.…

Customizing your Laravel Broadcasting payloads

By Doug Niccum in laravel on

One piece of the Laravel documentation that is somewhat glanced over in my opinion is the ability to customize the payload that is sent out to your Laravel Echo listeners upon new events or broadcast methods. This can be extremely important when results from the models passed to these events…

Posting Angular content to a PHP endpoint

By Doug Niccum in php on

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…

How to setup a fresh install of Laravel 5 with Bower

By Doug Niccum in php on

Laravel is currently my PHP framework of choice (in case you couldn't tell) that I look to when building applications. This will most likely change sometime in the future, but it is a fair bet at this moment in time. I know there are numerous articles out there on the…

Deploying Laravel 5 application to Heroku

By Doug Niccum in heroku on

This explains how to deploy a Laravel 5 application to Heroku with additional support for Gulp and Bower to use with Laravel 5's Elixer. This assumes that you already know how to use Gulp and Bower. What is Heroku Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that is…