Lots of people ask me frequently, "Which are the laravel packages that you use in almost all projects?" when we meet in Meetup or any other events regardless of its online or physical events.

Let me describe today some of the packages that we almost use in all of the projects.

We are working in Laravel for almost 7+ years and in these years we have used lots of packages, some from the community and some of our own.

I am categorizing these into 2 categories.

1. Must used packages
2. Common Need/Functionality specific packages

Must used packages

These are the packages which are must be included in all of our projects. No Excuses.

barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper

Laravel exposes a lot of magic methods and properties. IDE Helper is a very good package when it comes to auto-complete those properties and methods. Even it does an amazing job while refactoring properties or methods of the model.

barryvdh/laravel-debugbar

The second one is from the same author, debugbar helps to debug the request in terms of the number of queries fired, time taken by each query, number models retrieved from db, time taken by each request, and much more.

imanghafoori/laravel-microscope

Laravel Microscope improves the readability of your code. Early returns, unnecessary else statements, and many more. so your code looks clean and efficient in terms of execution as well.

beyondcode/laravel-query-detector

One of the problems that we face is, missing eager loading. In ongoing development, sometimes we add relationships objects in the loops, and then laravel fires tons of queries to the database. Laravel Query Detector detects that and gives warning while development environment.

InfyOmLabs/laravel-generator

No application can be ever built without few CRUDs. CRUDs are essential in almost all web applications. Also, APIs of that CRUDs are essentials while building a backend for Mobile or Frontend apps. Laravel Generator is our own developed package that we use in all of the applications to make the CRUD building process faster. It can be used with two themes right now, AdminLTE and CoreUI. But it's also frontend framework agnostic.

Common Need/Functionality specific packages

These are the packages that are used when we particularly need that kind of functionality in the application.

• Single Page application without JS - Livewire
• Role Permissions - spatie/laravel-permission
• Media Management - spatie/laravel-medialibrary
• Full Text Search - Laravel Scout
• Payment - Laravel Cashier
• Frontend Scaffolding - Laravel UI AdminLTE & Laravel UI CoreUI
• APIs token management - Laravel Sanctum
• Realtime Apps - Laravel Echo with Pusher & Laravel Echo Server
• One Signal - Shailesh OneSignal

Will keep this list updating.

Step 1: Selection of your Subject

select any selection tool for selection but select the Quick selection tool.
select your subject and press select and mask

Step 2: Edit your Subject

1. open property and select onion skin and transparency 50%
2. refine edge brush tool and then refine edge
3. Set contrasts 9%
4. output setting on
5. tick decontaminate colors amount 100%
6. output to a new layer with layer mask then press OK

Step 3: Crop Upper part of the subject

select layer mask and press ctrl + click for selection and new cut out the upper part to polygonal lasso tool. select perfectly then select layer and ctrl+j for duplicate layer

Step 4: create an effect for Background

create Ctrl+G for group layer select the last layer and create color lookup effect.
then 3D lut file and select moonlight.3dl. and then Create a new effect black & white
Opacity set 50%

Step 5: Create Effect for Main Subject

select the group layer and convert this layer to a Smart Object.
then create this layer duplicate. then create a color style to the top layer in linear Dodge(Add).
then go to the

1.filter - blur - Gaussian blur Create radius - 5 for soft edges
2.Create a duplicate layer and double click on the smart filter and Create a radius of 100

3.again Create a duplicate layer and double click on the smart filter and Create a radius of 250
4. again Create duplicate layer and double click on the smart filter and **Create a radius of 500

then add hue/saturation adjustment layer
and click on create clipping mask then click on colorize and increase the saturation to your perfect and choose a color

Step 6: Create All effect in the subject

select main layer mask image and create effect curves.
and click on create effect curves and click on create clipping mask and curves per requirement select layer mask and select the brush tool. and set property
opacity 100%
flow 30%

create duplicate hue/saturation effect layer and set this layer is bottom of the main object and select this layer and open property and click ok create a clipping mask.
and select the mask and make sure the foreground color is white.
and give shade to the object and you can also adjust the opacity.

Step 7: Add the sparkle and give effect

let's add sparkle and change the blending yo screen.

then add a mask and convert to invert the layer and select brush tool.
set foreground color is white and creates an effect in the main object after creating effect open blending mode and create a level and click on create clipping mask and set property per requirement.
then open blending mode and select color lookup and set 3dlutfile to crisp_warm: look and set opacity as per requirement.
now finally ready to glow effect

Introduction

You can only develop products and services that are very effective if you pay attention to the needs of your customers and prospects. One way to understand exactly what your customers want is through research and surveys.

1. Understand your customers

You can only develop products and services that will be a big hit if you pay attention to the needs of your customers and prospects. One way to understand exactly what your customers want is through research and surveys. You should constantly invite them to give honest, brutal feedback.

Reviews and surveys are the best way to get into the minds of your customers. This makes it easier for you to develop products and services that are appropriate to the current demands of the market. Moreover, it helps you understand the area in which your company needs to improve.

2. Improving customer service

If you do not provide quality customer service, it will be difficult to satisfy your customers even if you have an excellent product or service. This aspect of the business is about taking extra steps to make them feel special. Let your customers know that they have value. If they have a problem, make sure you address them immediately. If they have questions, take the time to answer.

They should not feel that things are difficult for them if they raise specific issues. Social media is the best way to listen to and understand your customers. If they find customer service satisfactory, they may also recommend buying others from your business.

3. Establish loyalty

It takes time to encourage customers to come and buy what you offer. But just buying them is not enough. You need to promote loyalty. Considering there are other competitors who can offer them better, you want them to stay loyal to you. Don’t be satisfied just because you already have a lot of loyal customers.

They can easily be attracted to other options and they can leave you. Provide loyalty rewards. If there are discounts and discounts, let these most loyal customers be the first to know. You must make sure your customers know they are appreciated.

4. Focus on professional development

The success of your business also depends on the quality of the employees you hire. Building an effective team is the key to making sure your business grows.

One of the best ways to motivate hardworking employees is to give them a sense of purpose. They should not feel that they have to work just to work.

5. Understand your customers

Find ways to increase the sales of your existing customers It's much cheaper than finding a new one. Even if you can't expand your product line, you can still sell more of your existing product or service to a client you already have. An easy way to do this is by volume discount.

6. Participate in networking events

Take the time to build your networks - it's not what you know but who you know. Networking allows you to build relationships with other people and encourage customers to refer to you through words.

7. Give back to your community

Creating brand awareness in your local community is a great way to attract new business. Consider participating in a sponsorship or community event to enhance your business profile.

We will see more points in our next tutorial.

Most of the developers are facing select2 styles removing issue when livewire render the component.

We can resolve this issue by using a livewire javascript hook.

Here is my screen with select2 before livewire component rendering.

And when the livewire component is refreshed means re-render the select2 style is gone ☹️

How to Fix it ?? 🤔

document.addEventListener('livewire:load', function (event) {
    window.livewire.hook('afterDomUpdate', () => {
        $('#select2ID').select2();
    });
});

• Setup livewire with component example
• How to use livewire pagination

 There are mainly eight phase of STLC

1. Test Planning And Control
3. Test Analysis
4. Test Case Development
5. Test Environment Setup
6. Test Execution
7. Exit Criteria Evaluation And Reporting
8. Test Closure

• CRS (Customer Requirement Specification)
• SRS (Software Requirement Specification)
• BRS (Business Requirement Specification)
• Functional Design Documents

This phase that begins after the test planning and analysis phase is completed.  From test analysis we can understand how to test and what is the test condition.  So easily understand and develop the test case.  In This phase evaluator creates the manual / automation test scripts.  The test data is prepared in this phase the data that is used to find the defect.  The Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) is also ready, Because the evaluator understands tracking the test case for the particular requirement.
 

The following diagram shows the different activities that form part of Test Case Development.

•  System Admins,
• Developers
• Testers
• Sometimes users or techies with an affinity for testing.

• Internet setup
•  LAN Wi-Fi setup
• Private network setup

• Visual Studio installation
•  Windows phone emulator
• Alternatively, assigning a Windows phone to the tester.

•  Set up production jobs to copy the data to a common test environment
• All PII (Personally Identifiable Information) is modified along with other sensitive data. The PII is replaced with logically correct, but non-personal data.
• Remove data that is irrelevant to your test.

•  Blacklist: In this approach, all the data fields are left unchanged. Except those fields specified by the users.
• Whitelist: By default, this approach, anonymizes all data fields. Except for a list of fields which are allowed to be copied. A whitelisted field implies that it is okay to copy the data as it is and anonymization is not required.

•  Internet setup
• LAN Wi-Fi setup
• Private network setup

After The test plan, the development of the test case, and the configuration of the test environment are complete, and then the execution phase of the test is executed.

In This manual test / automation script phase is executed.  If any defect is detected during the execution of the test case, it will be reported to the developer through the bug tracking system. 
If any test case result is a failure than this particular test case marked as fail.

If any test case result is matched to the expected result then a particular test case marked as Pass.

If all modules  dependent are tested and any fault is detected, the particular module test case is marked as blocked, first corrects the main module fault, and then runs the associated module test case.  For example, B the module depends on the module A.

If any fault found in the module A, the test case of the module B is not executed.  First correct the fault of the module A then rerun the module A test case, If module A result of the test case is Pass then run the module B execution of the test case.

Blocked Test noticed cases are executed after the fault is corrected by the developer.

You must be thinking what is a webhook? Where it is used? What is the usage of it? And the most important why it’s used?

Webhooks are automated services, it is a way that the app can send automated messages or information to our system.

When something happens in the system then this service is fire and our system caches those services and can do according to changes in our system.

Let’s take an example of a stripe webhook

We have integrated Stripe payment gateway, we have according to payment fields in our system’s database. When our system user do the payment in stripe at that time payment is done in stripe, but now how will our system get to know about the customer has do payment or not?

When customer complete payment in stripe, it will send service(webhook) to our system which has information about customer payment detail, our system will cache this service, then our system will find that user in our system and if found then we can do payment changes in our customer detail.

Recently, we were working in a laravel app where we have a status column in multiple models. We have multiple processes going on for which we have different jobs.

Initially job status will be "Pending", then each job will take one record, change the status to "Running" and process that record, and update the status to either "Completed" or "Failed".

We have constants for each status. Something like below,

static $STATUS_PENDING = 0;
static $STATUS_RUNNING = 1;
static $STATUS_COMPLETED = 2;
static $STATUS_FAILED = 3;

And the problem is, we need to go and define the status in every model that we have (around 10+ models).

Then we have functions to update status and check the status in each model like,

public function markRunning($saveRecord = true)
{
    $this->status = static::$STATUS_RUNNING;

    if ($saveRecord) {
        $this->save();
    }
}

public function isRunning()
{
    return $this->status === static::$STATUS_RUNNING;
}

And above functions existed for each 4 status. so what we did is, we created a common StatusTrait which can be used across multiple models.

Here is the code of StatusTrait that you can find for that.

Then in each model, we use this trait. For e.g.,

class SavePdf extends Model
{
    use StatusTrait;

    .....
}

And then can use any method of trait in all the models,

...
$savePdf = new SavePdf();
$savePdf->markRunning();
...

Or we can check if the status of the model is running or not. For e.g.,

...
if ($savePdf->isRunning()) {
    // logic here
}
...

This is how we have saved tons of writing code and optimized the code. Another advantage is, we can just update the value of any status from one single place.

You can also check this kind of pattern and do something like this.

• What’s Employee Morale?
• Characteristics of Employee Morale.
• Relation between Morale & Productivity.

• Psychological concept
• Dynamic Nature
• Group phenomenon
• Reflect others

1. lack of proper training,
2. Lack of support by co-workers or leader,
3. leaders/Superior behavior with him,
4. Irresponsible Management (If we talk about It or another small service sector Irresponsible HR )
5. Ineffective Supervision
6. Restrictive norms of the informal group
7. Outdated Technology & Methods

1. fear of losing a job,
2. less availability of alternatives
3. Strict Supervision, Rules & Regulations
4. Punishment
5. Policies and strategies focus on high productivity only.

1. Lack of motivation
2. Unclear Job role
3. Lack of harmonious Superior-Subordinate relationship

1. Factor determining morale
2. Significance of high morale
3. Impact of low morale
4. Measurement of morale