Local Laravel development and SSL on Homestead

Posted in PHP on April 27, 2018

Just a quick write down of the steps we took to add a SSL certificate to our local Laravel projects that run using Homestead. Google changed their automatic redirects for the .dev extension in URLs shaking up the developer world. But using new browser APIs such as MediaDevices (for accessing device camera and microphone) also requires your website to run under the https protocol. Time to add a SSL certificate for your local projects and enable an automatic redirect.

Building an application with Laravel and Vue

Posted in Javascript on February 8, 2018

It’s now 5 years since we built our first web application and a lot has happened since then. We started with building applications from scratch without any framework. Then we realized it made no sense to write every piece of code ourselves and we started exploring the possibilities to build applications in WordPress. Although WordPress is a great tool, it didn't have the flexibility we need to build custom web apps. Nowadays we use a combination of Laravel and Vue. We are very happy with the combination of these frameworks and decide to write a blog series about building web applications using Laravel and Vue. This is the first blog of the series.

Deploying a vue-cli app to a subfolder

Posted in Quick tips on December 1, 2017

Deploying a vue-cli app is very simple. However, the other day I just needed to deploy it to a subfolder on my server. I found out that all it takes is a change in the webpack config to make this work!

Customizing emails in Laravel

Posted in PHP on November 27, 2017

How do you customize the default password reset email in Laravel? In this blog, we describe the process of creating mailables, apply them to your own emails and finally customizing the ‘password reset emails’ that are included in the authentication scaffolding of Laravel.

Laravel-mix and the spread operator

Posted in Quick tips on November 17, 2017

Out of the box, the excellent Laravel-mix package does not support the use of the ES6 object spread operator. Here is a quick tip which enables it in your project. Very usefull in combination with Vuex/ Redux implementations in which you often want to quickly clone an object.