John Braun // Blog

Mutation testing is a great tool to analyze and increase the reliability of your test suite. This post highlights the concepts of Mutation Testing, how to get started using Infection PHP, and how to use mutation tests in your CI workflow.

Contributing to packages instead of applications can look challenging. In this blog post I want to show a workflow to work on PHP packages and be able to test them out locally.

When writing an end-to-end test (or so called browser test), it might be tricky to force the application to use a certain (fake) date. In this post, I share my approach using a custom middleware to be able to write Cypress tests while your application is in a specific...

This article highlights replacing WebSockets with Livewire polling, providing a convenient alternative to event-driven broadcasting via WebSockets.

Logging in to separate Laravel applications using a single account. This post discusses OAuth2, Laravel Passport and Laravel Socialite to set up such a system.

Using Laravel Mailbox to allow users to search (multiple) databases and receive the results as a reply to their e-mail.

Sometimes in your web application you will need to perform some (really) slow tasks. It can be helpful to inform your users that there is some kind of progress while they are waiting. In this post, I want to discuss a possible solution toward creating a progress indicator.

Handle incoming e-mails in your Laravel application using Laravel Mailbox (by Marcel Pociot) and Mailgun.

The Laravel WebSockets package provides an alternative to Pusher for broadcasting over WebSocket technology. This article covers both implementations using a demo application.

Refactoring a Dragonball Z character selection Vue component into a more reusable, generic image-selector using renderless components vs provide/inject.