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Installing and setting up github cli
What is the github cli The Github CLI tool is the official Github terminal tool for interacting with your github account, as well as any open source projects hosted on Github. I’ve only just begun looking into it but am already trying to make it part of my personal development flow. Installation You can see…
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Adding Laravel Jetstream to a fresh Laravel project
I only have this post here as there was a couple of extra steps I made after regular installation, which I wanted to keep a note of. Here are the changes made to my Inventory Manager. Follow the Jetstream Installation guide Firstly I just follow the official installation guide. When it came to running the…
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How I organize my Neovim configuration
The entry point for my Neovim Configuration is the init.lua file. Init.lua My entrypoint file simply requires three other files: The user.plugins file is where I’m using Packer to require plugins for my configuration. I will be writing other posts around some of the plugins I use soon. The user.options file is where I set…
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Starting a new Laravel 9 project
Whenever I start a new Laravel project, whether that’s a little side-project idea or just having a play, I try to follow the same process. I recently read Steve’s post here on starting your first Laravel 9 Application, so thought I would write down my own setup. Whereas Steve’s guide walks you through the beginnings…
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Given, When, Then — how I approach Test-driven development in Laravel
Laravel is an incredible PHP framework and the best starting point for pretty much any web-based application (if writing it in PHP, that is). Along with it’s many amazing features, comes a beautiful framework from which to test what you are building. For the longest time I cowered at the idea of writing automated tests…