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Building a PHP CLI tool using DDD and Event Sourcing: setting up Laravel Zero

This post is part of the "Building a PHP CLI tool using DDD and Event Sourcing" series but can also be read as an independent guide to getting started with Laravel Zero, a micro-framework for console applications.

A complete guide to Laravel Sail

This post is about what to expect from Laravel Sail, how it works and how to make the most of it; it is also a plea to developers to break away from it, in favour of their own, tailored solution.

How to enable NFS on Laravel Homestead

I currently work on a Laravel project composed of multiple microservices that I run locally using Homestead (box v0.4.0 at the time of writing). As I started tinkering around I noticed that requesting the different APIs was super slow, up to 20s per request, which was really unexpected (and annoying to say the least).

Database management with Adminer (and how to install on Homestead)

For quite some time now I have been prefering accessing databases from the CLI, but sometimes it can feel overkill when wanting to quickly check or update something, say.

Laravel Homestead: debug an API with Xdebug and cURL in Sublime Text

There are a few tutorials out there about how to set up Sublime Text and Xdebug so they play nice together. The good news is that in our case, Homestead has covered the configuration of Xdebug for us: the tool is already available and reporting for duty.

Extending Homestead: how to customize Laravel's Virtual Machine (the example of Apache)

Homestead offers a nice pre-packaged environment. But as a project grows in complexity, there will be a time where extra packages will be necessary. How to install them properly, and not to lose everything any time we need to recreate the box? How does one extend Homestead?

How to start a new Laravel 5 project with Homestead - quick reference

I wrote this short get-started guide mainly for my own use, to have a reference handy to quickly set up a new Laravel project with a MySQL database. But as I felt the need to write it, one might find some interest in it as well.