Building a Collision-Safe URL Shortener in Laravel

A complete walkthrough of building a URL shortener in Laravel with base-62 codes, collision handling, and click tracking.

Laravel' s HTTP client can retry failed requests with exponential backoff and custom conditions in a single fluent call.

The Laravel AI SDK's new HITL API lets you pause an agent before a sensitive tool call so a person can approve, deny, or edit it.

Laravel's rescue() helper wraps a callback in a try/catch for you, logs the exception, and returns a fallback value.

Skip a database table entirely and track each visitor's recently viewed products with a Redis sorted set instead.

Laravel Cloud can now deploy a Next.js or Nuxt frontend from the same repository as your Laravel backend, on one bill.

chunk() can silently skip or duplicate rows when you update data mid-loop. Here is when to reach for chunkById() instead.

A step-by-step guide to building a reusable tagging system that works across multiple Eloquent models using morphToMany.

Laravel ships a Number helper that formats currency, percentages, and file sizes in one line, no extra formatting package required.