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Jul 19, 2025

How to Add Reactions to Laravel Using reactify

I added a reaction system to my blog posts, and it doesn't have to be complicated. With Reactify, you can easily make any Eloquent model capable of receiving reactions. 


In this guide, I'll walk you through the step-by-step process of setting up Reactify. Let's get started!

Jul 19, 2025

How to Securely Connect AWS Lambda to a Private API in a VPC

When building cloud-native applications, it's common to have a Lambda function that needs to interact with services hosted in a private subnet, such as an internal API running on EC2 or ECS. In this post, we’ll walk through the best-practice architecture to securely connect AWS Lambda to a private API—and answer common questions.

Jun 23, 2025

Introducing Slash: A Minimal, Elegant Utility Library for PHP

PHP has grown to be a versatile and powerful language for web development. But sometimes, working with arrays and collections can get repetitive, verbose, or just plain tedious. That’s where Slash comes in — a lightweight, expressive utility library that makes array and data manipulation effortless and elegant.

Whether you're building a Laravel app or writing raw PHP, Slash helps you get more done with less code.

Jun 23, 2025

Add Firebase Push Notifications to SaaS laravel Web App

If you’re building a restaurant SaaS platform with Laravel and want to notify staff in real-time when a customer places a new order or taps "Call Waiter", then this guide is for you!

We'll show you how to integrate Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) with a multi-tenant Laravel system and trigger push notifications to multiple devices — including Chrome on desktop, Android tablet, and Android mobile

Jun 22, 2025

Introducing laravel-model-export: Effortless Model Exporting for Laravel

Working with Laravel often means interacting with rich Eloquent models — but what happens when you need to export that data? Whether it's for auditing, backup, data sharing, or reporting, creating export logic from scratch can become repetitive and messy.

That's why we built laravel-model-export — a lightweight, elegant package that lets you export Eloquent models directly to JSON or PDF using a fluent and extensible API