Recent tricks

The optional helper now can have a callback to execute in case the first argument is null.

Sometimes you need to want tables columns as array while you editing the data, this will return a columns as array.

I originally published this trick on Medium: https://medium.com/@simondepelchin/how-to-use-font-awesome-5-svgs-with-laravel-blade-a5dc93743cd0

What if you want to use the @push blade directive but you don't want it to push twice the same content? For example, if you have a UI component that loads JS files and you want to reuse that component in the same view, so without this trick it will load twice your JS code from your different UI components.

We don't like to duplicate a form for the "create" and "edit" methods. But how can you then put a value using the old and at the same time using the model attribute value without raising an exception?

Had a need to copy files from Amazon S3 to my local system. This is the solution I ended up using. Working on Laravel 5.6

Sometimes you want to refer your custom middleware not by the full qualified namespace class, but only by an alias (E.g. like the ones that Laravel have created in the Middleware Kernel).

This function will allow you to use human readable strings in place of integers when defining a time in seconds for caching, delays in jobs etc.

Sometimes you have a blade view, and you would like to render a certain HTML code only if your controller action is the one you passed in the directive.