Ionic 5 + VueJS + Laravel + JWT
Recently I've been dabbling in building an iOS application for JobStruct, a business management tool for concrete contractors. Since I'm familiar with Vue we decided to use Ionic framework which allows an app to be written in javascript and then run as an application on ios and Android using web views. The two-part article series from Naveen Bommidi regarding authorization with JWT has been a good starting point.
For When Things Get Gnarly in Eloquent
Jonathan Reinink has written some excellent content around Eloquent and this article is one that I reference frequently. Jonathan walks us through handling sticky situations when we need to get a single record back from a relationship without causing N+1 issues.
Eager Loading Polymorphic Relations
Derek MacDonald wrote a nice post about eager loading polymorphic relationships. This has been a difficult item to solve so it's nice to see a documented approach that works for many scenarios. Thanks Derek!
Using WhereHas in Laravel Polymorphic Relations
Techniques like these are important to document because we bump into them frequently, but not frequently enough to have it memorized!
It seems like once every project I find myself googling "Laravel Polymorphic WhereHas", combing through one result after another, frustratedly repeating "How do I do this???".
While there isn't a first-party supported solution, I wanted to document what has been working for me, so I don't have to continue searching StackOverflow!
Sorting Parent Eloquent Models by a Child Relationship
Recently I had a situation in a Laravel app where I needed to sort a collection of parent models by a particular value in aBelongsTo()relationship field.
It’s fairly simple to sort the opposite direction, meaning, to sort all the related models that belong to a parent model.
Replace Conditional with Polymorphism
Polymorphism is an extremely helpful technique to master. Take a look at this article to see it implemented in a Laravel application:
If you've ever done any research into refactoring, or programming in general, you've most likely heard the term "polymorphism". When I first came across it, I have to admit, I was intimidated.
Now that I've become more familiar with the concept, I can assure you, the word itself is more complicated than the underlying principle!