My basic attempt at javascript data transformation, resources.js — We‘ve gone serverless at work and we’re using my favorite, nodejs! That means a lot of javascript. I’ve been using callbacks to transform my results but I’ve become accustomed to Fractal and now Laravels own Eloquent Resources. …

Similar to Laravels Eloquent feature. — UPDATE: I’ve made this plugin a package. npm install --save bookshelf-simplepaginate Use the simplePaginate plugin to call a fetchAll and return single pages with meta data. Intended for use with large datasets as pagination with counts can be slow. Example: bookshelf.plugin(require('./simplepaginate.plugin')); Model.where({ id: 1 }).simplePaginate({ page: 1 }).then(results => { // results.data // results.meta });

If you google around you’ll find plenty of examples on how-to create a custom authorizer for serverless lambda events. I used this example when I was building mine: // Return an IAM policy document for the current endpoint const effect = isAllowed ? 'Allow' : 'Deny'…

Step 1: Get a Server!

We all use Laravels Validation feature to ensure we have the required input and it matches some sort of rule. The available rules cover plenty of situations but they fail to cover one of the most important rules, input Sanitization. TL;DR A typical validator Laravels Auth system comes with a simple User model…

Laravels Soft Deleting allows you to retain deleted records in your database so they can be used or restored at a later point. …

UPDATE: There is a new version of this article. — Step 1: Get a Server!

TL;DR: Check out the package. I’ve been building an api for the past couple months and we’ve come to the point where the frontend needs to do some status checks. Status checks currently ping the crap out of the current api and are pretty darn slow. The solution for us…

TL;DR: Check out the package. I’ve been building an api for the past couple months and we’ve come to the point where the frontend needs to do some status checks. Status checks currently ping the crap out of the current api and are pretty darn slow. The solution for us…