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Laravel Testing with Pest, Part 3: Browser Testing
Laravel Testing with Pest — Part 1 · Part 2 · Part 3 · Part 4 · Part 5 A feature test proves that a controller redirects and that a record reaches the data...
Laravel Testing with Pest, Part 2: HTTP and Feature Tests
Laravel Testing with Pest — Part 1 · Part 2 · Part 3 · Part 4 · Part 5 Unit tests answer whether a small class behaves correctly. Feature tests answer the...
Laravel File Updates: Understanding POST vs PUT and the _method Field
When you update a record with a file upload in Laravel and Inertia.js, you send POST with _method: "PUT" instead of a real PUT. Here is why, and...
Eager Loading vs Lazy Loading in Laravel
1. The N+1 Problem with Lazy Loading By default, Eloquent uses lazy loading. It means related data is loaded only when accessed. This often leads to the in...
Social Login in Laravel with Socialite
Socialite performs OAuth redirects and returns provider identity; your application owns account linking, session security and recovery. Configure environme...
Building a Production-Ready GitLab CI/CD Pipeline for Laravel: From Testing to Deployment
A GitLab CI/CD pipeline for a Laravel app: tests and static analysis in parallel, one build job that produces a release tarball, and SSH deployment to a de...
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