Ways to Improve Laravel Performance

Over the past few months my Weather Extension has grown to over 118,000+ users and averages 14 req/sec. Weather uses Laravel primarily as an api and VueJs to render the html. Speed is very important. Currently Weather is hosted on a $40 a month Digital Ocean server. Since Weather is free, I’ve tried my best to keep cost low. Here are a few changes I’ve made to improve the performance of my Laravel app. Read More

What is Flexbox

If you are a web developer you probably have heard of Flexbox. Flexbox is becoming the new way to layout web pages and solves some of the issues when using floats. When considering using new features, you should always check browser support. Luckily today most browsers support flexbox. Here is another guide of React the open-source front-end JavaScript library.

If you are interested in learning more about flexbox, Wes Bos has a great video series on it. He also recently released a free Javacript30 course which covers a lot of flexbox. He does a great job making things simple and using real-world examples. Check out the video below. Read More