mattstauffer.com is the personal blog of Matt Stauffer, a web developer, author, and educator specializing in Laravel, PHP, and full-stack web development. Matt shares tutorials, insights, and resources on modern web development, covering topics like backend development, JavaScript, and Laravel best practices. He is also the author of Laravel: Up & Running and a host of the Laravel Podcast. Through his blog, Matt provides practical advice for developers, project management tips, and insights into maintaining a productive development workflow. His content is designed to help developers of all levels improve their skills and stay updated with the latest trends in the web development industry.
176 Articles from this blog
A guide for Mac users on creating multiple, separate Slack windows using single-site browsers or app cloning to manage multiple workspaces.
A guide on how to automatically generate a sitemap for a static website built with the Jigsaw framework using event listeners.
A developer shares their process of refactoring a Vue.js application, focusing on improving component structure and using modern ES6 features.
A beginner's guide to personal finance for young adults, offering a simple plan to manage money, debt, and start investing.
A tutorial for developers on how to control LIFX smart lights from web applications, using Laravel or other frameworks.
Explains Laravel 5.4's real-time facades feature, which allows creating facades on-the-fly without separate classes.
Explains Laravel 5.4's new higher order messaging and 'when' method for collections, showing cleaner syntax for filtering and actions.
Explains Laravel's tap() helper function, its 'higher order' version, and how to use it with collections for cleaner code.
Laravel Horizon is a new open-source package providing a dashboard and tools for managing and monitoring Laravel queues.
A recap of new features announced for Laravel 5.5 at the Laracon US 2017 conference, including frontend presets and routing improvements.
Learn how to use Lambo config files and after scripts to customize Laravel app creation with automated settings and post-installation tasks.
A developer shares the most recommended Laravel packages from the community, categorized by popularity, for enhancing development workflows.
An introduction to Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), explaining their purpose, value, and history.
Explores the future of Laravel if its creator Taylor Otwell were to leave, detailing the existing succession plan and community safeguards.
A guide to setting up zero-downtime deployments for Laravel applications using tools like Envoyer and Capistrano.
A guide on how to remove Vue.js and other optional dependencies from a new Laravel project's frontend setup.
A guide on reading, inserting, updating, and deleting data in Google Spreadsheets using PHP and the Google Drive API.
Laravel Mix is the new asset compilation tool replacing Laravel Elixir in Laravel 5.4, using Webpack instead of Gulp.
A developer's journey creating Tech Forward, a social change project, using Gomix, Express.js, and Google Spreadsheets as the tech stack.
Introducing Laravel Dusk, a new browser testing tool for Laravel 5.4 that enables testing JavaScript-heavy applications.
