Tips & Tidbits
You'll come across plenty of confusing things when programming, but life is easier if someone's solved the problem
before. I've shared some of these tips below, and I also post on Twitter.
Posts with social images are way more noticeable when shared on social media but are a pain to create manually. Learn how to automatically generate them without code!
Laravel recently added upserting to eloquent and it's awesome. Learn how to use it to drastically reduce queries when importing or syncing data.
You've set up the SMTP settings for you Laravel app, but how do you test it? A quick one liner to send a test email via tinker.
Impersonating users is a bit different with a stateless API, so follow along and set it up in your own SPA.
Solve issues with slow MySQL insert queries by deferring disk writes.
The release of Laravel 7 brings new, modernized mail templates. Check them out!
Vercel NOW (was ZEIT Now) is missing an gui to edit DNS records, but they can be edited using the now CLI. Here's how to update the DNS records.
Set up Netlify to notify google of Sitemap updates every time your site is deployed.
Fix IDE classname completion when using PurgeCSS in development by forcing a full tailwind build.