1. Whitespace This program uses whitespace characters as syntax. This implies that only linefeeds, spaces as well as tabs have meanings. Unlike other programming languages, it ignores the n...

What is Composer? Composer is a package manager for PHP. As with npm for Node.js and bundler for Ruby, it fills a similar role. It uses a JSON file to capture metadata about the project and...

What is NPM NPM stands for Node Package Manager and is the default JavaScript package manager powered by Node.js. The npm manager has two parts: CLI (Command Line Interface) — a tool for p...

Google has announced that some accounts will no longer be able to use Less Secure Apps feature, starting May 30th, 2022. Your application will contain an error similar to this: Uncaught Exc...

You can use Prettier to make your code more readable and consistent with your style guide. There are several ways to start Prettier automatically, these are the most popular when using Git:...

Since about 2010, I have been looking for a translation framework for PHP that can generate very complex phrases and at the same time combine options such as singular/plural and work with ge...

As we navigate through websites and apps, we might sometimes wait for some progress or for something to load. A loader or spinner can be used in such cases to indicate to users that somethin...

A magic number is a configuration parameter typed as a number in the middle of some code. And that magic number is a bad thing. Using this library, you will fix the following code: <?php...

You have surely solved it many times, but the solution was not very attractive. This tutorial is about generating JavaScript code in PHP using the BigPipe library, which is inspired by the F...

First of all, add PHP CS Fixer to your project: composer require --dev friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer A configuration file called .php-cs-fixer.dist.php needs to be in the root directory of your...

Plain text emails are still very important these days. For many of them, however, it is pointless to write a plain text version as long as it can be automatically generated from HTML format....

If you use workflow to run tests along with installing dependencies via composer, you may find it useful to disable sending install statistics to Packagist. Just add this line of code to the...

When working on Laravel projects, I always try to keep working on hooks and automation. There is no exception in this case when using the package barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper that generates h...