Laravel Programming Tutorials, Guides & Best Practices

Generate a secure authentication system with Laravel’s breeze or sanctum:

   php artisan breeze:install

   public function index(Request $request)
   {
       $limit = $request->get('limit', 10);
       $cursor = $request->get('cursor');

       $query = Post::query();

       if ($cursor) {
           $query->where('id', '>', $cursor); // Fetch items after the cursor
       }

       $posts = $query->orderBy('id')->take($limit + 1)->get();

       $nextCursor = $posts->count() > $limit ? $posts->last()->id : null;

       return response()->json([
           'data' => $posts->take($limit), // Return only the requested number of items
           'meta' => [
               'limit' => $limit,
               'next_cursor' => $nextCursor,
           ],
       ]);
   }

   {
       "data": [
           { "id": 11, "title": "Post 11" },
           { "id": 12, "title": "Post 12" }
       ],
       "meta": {
           "limit": 10,
           "next_cursor": 20
       }
   }

• Share app-wide settings (e.g., theme or API limits) with all views.
• Make user-specific preferences (e.g., notification settings) accessible to controllers and views.
• Dynamically load data blocks like navigation menus or notifications.

We’ll cover the most effective approaches to achieve this without redundancy.

Add initial settings for testing purposes.

   php artisan make:seeder SiteSettingsSeeder

Move the file to app/Http/Controllers and make it extend Laravel’s default Controller.

Add shared functionality to the Base Controller. For example: