If you want to make your application testable you should really use Repositories in order to perform unit tests without touching the database.
In my case I was programming a Fantasy Football game and I will stick with the Team model.
This series explores a strategy for using Eloquent to easily achieve a DataMapper-like design that improves overall maintainability and readability of medium-to-large applications.
If you’ve used Laravel’s form validation for any length of time, then you know it’s a powerful…
While admiring the Laravel flexibility on many architectural patterns and discussing with a friend of mine we ended up on the conclusion that Laravel tries to embrace you into some very Laravel specific patterns, and one of them is Database migrations.
Marcel Pociot released a new package that will automatically generate API documentation from your existing routes.
I finally had a chance to install this Material theme for PhpStorm and it’s really nice. Great colors, neat…
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