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Livewire has quickly become one of the most popular package for building Laravel applications. It allows you to create dynamic components within PHP, which often results in allowing you to skip the JavaScript layer entirely. In this series, we’ll go over the basics of Livewire and why/when you might reach for it. We’ll then build and test several practical Livewire components.

One of the best ways to improve your CSS is by rebuilding existing UIs. You’ll notice common patterns that occur and the best way to handle them. In this first entry, we'll focus on the GitHub UI.View the source code for this episode on GitHub.

As part of the Laravel 7 release, we gained access to supercharged Blade components. What's exciting about this is the fact that it can fundamentally change how you go about constructing the view layer of your applications. In this series, one component per episode, I'll show you a wide range of practical examples that you can freely use in your own projects.

In this series, we'll build a command line application to track the availability of in-demand products across any number of retailers. Perhaps you want to be notified the moment a Nintendo Switch becomes available for purchase? Let's do it!

Ever wonder how a front-end framework works under the hood? In this series, I (the creator of AlpineJS) will walk you through what it takes to actually build one from scratch. By the end of the series, you will learn what’s involved in creating a modern, reactive, front-end framework by actually building one yourself. It’s easier than you might think!

Laravel advances to version 7 on March 3rd, 2020 with updates to Blade components, custom casting, fluent string operations, a friendly HTTP client, and much more. In this series, one episode at a time, we'll review everything you need to know.