Notes on PHP, Drupal, Laravel, React, and Next.js development.
Jun 2026
Building a real Laravel REST API: versioned routes, API Resources for response shaping, Form Request validation, consistent error handling, Sanctum token authentication vs Passport, rate limiting, avoiding N+1 queries, testing, and documentation.
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Laravel queues in practice: creating and dispatching jobs, choosing a driver (database vs Redis vs SQS), running workers safely in production, job batching with progress tracking, job middleware for rate limiting, and handling failures and retries correctly.
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The difference between composer install and composer create-project, running it on a fresh vs existing Laravel 11 project, production flags (--no-dev, --optimize-autoloader), private package auth, and CI/CD habits worth adopting.
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A complete walkthrough of installing Laravel: requirements, choosing between Composer and the Laravel installer, picking a database, environment configuration, migrations, and the common setup errors people actually hit.
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Every real path to Laravel authentication compared — Breeze, Jetstream, and building it manually with the Auth facade — plus how login, registration, password reset, and email verification actually work under the hood.
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