You probably know that Laravel.elixir was replaced with Laravel.mix in Laravel 5.4. If Laravel.elixir was based on Gulp, then Laravel.mix is built on top of Webpack. Therefore, Gulp plugins are not suitable anymore and we have to replace them with Webpack plugins. Luckily, there is a webpack plugin for those who prefer LiveReload to BrowserSync.

Webpack LiveReload plugin will automatically monitor your files for changes and refresh the page when the changes are detected. In this short post I will show you how to make it work.

Some time ago, I had the pleasure of developing a realtime app for my client. The app was based on Laravel, Node.js, Redis and Laravel Echo. During the process of development, I found a few things that can be not so obvious to developers who just started to tackle the problem of creating a realtime app with Laravel. In this post I’ll share my insights.

We usually apply laravel-localization middlewares to the entire web route group. It means that laravel-localization package redirects broadcasting/auth route to en/broadcasting/auth, which crashes Event Broadcasting.

The problem is related to the fact that Laravel Echo Server does not support redirects (HTTP statuses other than 200) of the Laravel authorization service broadcasting/auth.

It is probably possible to improve Laravel Echo Server in order to support redirects, but from my point of view it is easier to solve the problem from the Laravel side.

Drupal Console brings a whole new developer experience (DX) to Drupal 8. This console tool is similar to Drush but has some mind-blowing features, which I cannot wait to show you in action. Although, Drupal Console is in RC stage at the moment, it performs its functions well enough.

In this tutorial, we will generate boilerplate code for Drupal 8 via command line. In some frameworks this approach can be also called scaffolding. With about five lines of custom code and a few console commands we will create a fully-functional Drupal 8 module with a field formatter that will display QR codes in fields of Link type. The module will be using a third-party service to generate QR codes of entered URLs.

Some developers don't even know what MySQL storage engine is, and they don't need to know that today because the decision on what to use is made for them by framework developers. For example, Drupal uses InnoDB for its tables. It was not always that way though. I remember the time when we had to convert Drupal 5 tables into InnoDB on a site with intense load. It was so long ago, maybe in my previous life.

Until today, I thought (or I wanted to think) that all modern PHP frameworks use at least InnoDB by default (there are newer storage engines). It turned out that I was wrong. Today I noticed that tables of the Laravel 5.2 application I worked on were in MyISAM. You can’t even imagine my confusion.

You may have heard of or used such JavaScript frameworks as React, Angular and Ember. They are quite popular and have their pros and cons. I personally worked with Angular 1 and learned basic principles of others. You know there is no ideal framework, but there is one framework that I like more than others. It’s Vue.js

Vue.js (pronounced /vjuː/, like view) is a library for building interactive web interfaces. The goal of Vue.js is to provide the benefits of reactive data binding and composable view components with an API that is as simple as possible. (from docs).

Vue.js is used by many companies and people across the globe. The thing that attracts me more is that a few open source products believed in Vue and included it in their code base. The products are Laravel, PageKit and some others.

In this quick tutorial we’ll create a simple Vue.js component that will calculate the length of a word and display it on the fly. Let’s get started...

We can't open index.html file of some front-end projects in a browser because it requires a web server with a virtual host configured. On the other hand, configuring a separate virtual host for every front-end experiment is a waste of time. Of course, you can automate it but today you don't have to.

I'll show you how to run a simple web server using PHP, Python or Node.js with one command. Here we go.

You have just switched your site from HTTP to HTTPS but your browser is displaying mixed content warnings. I’ll tell you how to handle this situation.

Some of you may know me as a local Drupal community coordinator and organizer of community events in Saint Petersburg. Even though I am not much involved in the Drupal community today, I still advise other conference organizers on their small-to-medium events.

In this post I am going to share mistakes, which organizers often make despite the fact that most of them are warned about potential pitfalls.

When I was younger, I was fond of experimenting with different kinds of operating systems and applications. The internet connection was, politely speaking, not so good. So my parents regularly bought me a Russian magazine, called Hacker, which contained a DVD disk with a number of shareware and freeware utilities for everyday use. Oh, I remember how eagerly I waited every new release of the magazine and then spent days carefully learning the content.