Laravel Cookbook

Let's begin by learning how to visualize data as a chart. This might be useful for an admin dashboard or for a single user's data upon logging in. We'll take a look at how we can render charts using the popular Chart.js library. Then we'll formulate a query to fetch the necessary data from our backend. Finally, we'll pass that data to our front-end to display it on a chart.

It would be nice if we could update our chart based on certain parameters that the user selects. We could do this with JavaScript and an AJAX request, but we'll instead do it using Livewire and Alpine. We'll wrap our Chart.js code in an Alpine Component, refactor our backend code to use Livewire and have them communicate with one another to update the chart.

You'll often see admin dashboards presenting stats and important information as cards. Let's take a look at how we can implement this ourselves, and also how to make it more dynamic with Livewire.

Sometimes, you'll want to make certain parts of your site editable so anyone with the correct permissions can update content through a UI. Let's take a look at how we can accomplish this, and also provide the user with text formatting options with a WYSIWYG editor.

Let's take a look at how we can upload an image with just Laravel and the native file input to start. We'll also look at how to process and resize the image on the server using the Intervention Image PHP package.

Let's enhance the experience of our image uploads by leveraging the popular FilePond JavaScript library. We'll add features such as image previews, automatic file validation, automatic uploads, and resizing images directly on the client.

The Laravel Task Scheduler allows us to easily schedule tasks with its fluent syntax and convenient methods. Let's add a task that cleans up old files in a temporary folder on a schedule.

You'll often find that your forms for creating and updating certain models have a lot of duplicate code. Let's take a look at one way of DRYing up our code so future updates are more maintainable.

Whenever you want to provide other applications access to your data, you'll need to create API-specific routes. Sanctum allows you to issue API tokens that can be used to authenticate API requests. In this video, we take a look at an example of how to create tokens, and use them in API routes that need to be protected.

You'll often reach for a Drag and Drop UI whenever you need to put your data in some sort of order. In this video, we'll take a look at how we can accomplish this using a Livewire plugin, all while persisting the order in the database as well.

Laravel provides many useful methods and tools for localizing your application. However, there are a lot of things to consider, such as where your strings come from and how we can set the locale across all requests. In this video, we'll review an example of how we might approach this problem.

If you need to make requests to external APIs, you can leverage the HTTP client that's built right into Laravel. It offers an expressive and fluent syntax that supports everything you need to do when making requests. We'll utilize a few external APIs to see how we can use the HTTP client as well as some of its features.