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Build an AI-Powered Drawing Guessing Game with Laravel, Prism, and HTML Canvas

1 day ago · Nico Devs

AI is everywhere. It can create songs, build entire apps, and even drive our cars. But... can it play Pictionary? We're about to find out. Today, we're building an AI-powered drawing guessing game. In this little app, users...

Build Your Own Private, Self-Hosted AI Applications with Ollama & Laravel

Nov 25 · Nico Devs

Imagine your team wants to bring AI into their workflow to automate routine tasks, extract insights from data, assist with content creation, or improve customer support. Smart move! You can integrate AI into your system using APIs from OpenAI...

17 New(ish) Vanilla JavaScript Features You Might Have Missed

Nov 5 · Nico Devs

JavaScript: the language many love to hate. Yeah, we've all seen the memes about its quirks and limitations. Maybe that's why we slap a whole typing system on top of it. And add one, two, or... ten thousand npm packages into our apps....

SQL Generated Columns and Views: How to Use Them in Your Laravel App

Jul 25 · Nico Devs

Over the years of working with Laravel Eloquent models, I've come to appreciate how clean and elegant they can make a codebase. Along the way, I've learned which queries they run under the hood and which native SQL features can make those queries more...

10 Efficient (and Fun) Ways to Seed Your Database

Mar 10 · Nico Devs

Seeders allow us to quickly fill our database with records to test our application. Let's say that you need a couple of users to test your authentication system—you could create them manually using your app's register page or...

Five Practical Tips to Improve Search in Laravel Apps With Typesense

Feb 12 · Nico Devs

Typesense is making waves in the search landscape. Since its inclusion as an officially supported driver for Laravel Scout, Typesense has quickly become a...

Filament Crash-Course: Create a Customizable Admin Panel in Minutes

Jan 8 · Nico Devs

In most applications, administrators need a way to manage data. Whether it's a blog's articles and comments, a store's products and orders, or a theater's events and tickets, admins need a place to list, create, edit, and remove records. And...

From MySQL to Typesense: Blazing-Fast Full-Text Search in Laravel

Jul 31, 2024 · Nico Devs

Search is everywhere: Finding the nearest gas station, looking up a tutorial on YouTube, or searching for an old message in a chat ... in-app search is there to help us quickly find what we’re looking for. That’s why today,...

How to Automatically Generate Dynamic Open Graph Images for All Your Jigsaw Site’s Pages

Jul 26, 2024 · Nico Devs

You just published an amazing post on your blog and are ready to share it with the world when you remember you need to create an Open Graph (OG) image for it. You open Photoshop, thinking, "There has to be a better way." Well, there is! In...

Use HTMX to Create Laravel Single-Page Apps Without Writing JavaScript

May 13, 2024 · Nico Devs

Sometimes, the landscape of front-end development can seem overwhelming. Should I use React? Svelte? Livewire? Vue? And TypeScript? And a state manager, and maybe a meta-framework? Transpilers, bundlers, minifiers, and... hey, what is Bun?...

Form Validation with Type Inference Made Easy with Zod, the Best Sidekick for TypeScript

Mar 29, 2024 · Nico Devs

Server-side validation is a must, but client-side validation is also crucial: when a user attempts to submit a form, providing instant feedback and highlighting the fields with invalid data can be an invaluable guide to help them get...

Husky: How to automatically format, lint and test before you commit or push

Mar 14, 2024 · Nico Devs

When a team works on a project, keeping the codebase up to coding standards might be challenging. Perhaps a team member submits code that deviates from the established coding style, or you make a commit fixing a component but unintentionally breaking...

State management in Vue 3: Why you should try out Pinia

Feb 16, 2024 · Nico Devs

They say there are two difficult things in programming: naming things and cache invalidation. I would add one more to the list: state management in modern web applications! Today, we'll delve into state management strategies in Vue and...

Nuxt: Superpowers for your Vue 3 application

Dec 22, 2023 · Nico Devs

Are you searching for a way to enhance the speed of your Vue application development? Let me introduce you to Nuxt, a framework for constructing Vue applications. Initially envisioned as a counterpart to Next.js...

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