How to Setup Nginx as a Reverse Proxy for Laravel
Nginx is a powerful web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy for your application. You might wonder what exactly is a reverse proxy. Simply put, a…
How to Create Custom Helper Functions in Laravel
One of the key-feature of laravel is its inbuilt helper functions. These functions help speed up the development process. Helper functions such as env(), config(), and dd() have become the…
How To Build GraphQL APIs Using Laravel
Laravel provides a clean interface for building REST APIs. Rest APIs have been the defacto way of building flexible and scalable APIs. This though comes at a cost because as…
How to Add Google reCAPTCHA to Laravel Forms
Form submissions are an important part of many websites, but they can also be a target for spam and abuse. Captcha is a challenge that is used to distinguish between…
How to Integrate Mpesa Into your Laravel Application
Mpesa is a popular payment gateway in Kenya and Africa and is used by more than 52.4 million users on a day-to-day basis. Mpesa Provides various APIs which we can…
Laravel One to Many Relationship: A Beginner’s Guide
One-to-many relationships occur when one Entity in the database has an association with multiple records from another Entity. For example, if you have a Flight Model and a Ticket Model,…
How to Document a Laravel REST API
When building a REST API it is almost a given that you have to create documentation for the API. This allows other developers to consume your API with ease. Developers…
How to Build a Rest API with Laravel: A Beginners Guide
With the rise of mobile and javascript web frameworks such as React and Vue, Restful APIs have seen their popularity increase. This is because you can maintain one backend serving…
How To Install Cloud SQL Auth Proxy on Ubuntu
Google Cloud SQL is a fully managed relational database service for MySQL, Postgresql and SQL Server. It provides a helpful way of autoscaling and managing your SQL-based databases on the…
