Setting up Laravel with Doctrine and Passport
Our goal will be to scaffold out a basic app that uses doctrine on the backend... and then get passport installed to handle authentication. This is a cool setup because then you have all you need to …
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Important lessons to learn for publishing your own Laravel package
Over the last couple of years I've worked on several APIs, and during that time I've developed a set of tools that can be shared across multiple Laravel packages. One of these is a package which I lo…
1 Day Laravel App twitchusernames.com
So a few months ago, Twitch.tv made a big announcement that they were going to start allowing username changes. You can find the announcement here: twitch.tv username change blog post A big part of t…
Learning Vietnamese Part 1 - Overcoming Roadblocks
For the past 10 years I've been wanting to learn Vietnamese. It was mainly a fleeting interest that would pop up occasionally, but I would never pursue it fully. Everytime I started to try, there we…
Stateless Social Authentication with Socialite
A couple years ago I was working on a Laravel API that had social authentication features. I was using the laravel/socialite package to handle these authentication features, but ran into issues becau…