I'm giving away my book on building Laravel APIs developers actually want to use. Before you download 300 pages, here are the tips worth stealing first: contract-first design, versioning from day one, RFC 9457 errors, idempotency, audit logs. Free read: www.juststeveking.com/articles/api...

The Tips Behind API Artisan: Building Laravel APIs Developers Actually Want to Use — JustSteveKing

Practical tips for building Laravel APIs developers trust: contract-first design, versioning, RFC 9457 errors, idempotency and more. Free book inside.

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New article: The Art of Keeping Business Logic Honest State machines for transitions. Workflow engines for orchestration. Two layers that keep your Laravel app's business rules explicit, auditable, and resilient - even across async processes that span days. www.juststeveking.com/articles/the...

The Art Of Keeping Business Logic Honest — JustSteveKing

Use state machines and workflow engines in Laravel to keep business rules explicit, auditable, and resilient across async processes.

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New series: From Requirements to Reality A practical guide for junior devs learning to think before they build. 10 articles covering: Requirements & assumptions Feature shaping ERDs & schema design Application architecture The path to mid-level thinking www.juststeveking.com/series/from-...

From Requirements to Reality — JustSteveKing

A practical guide for junior developers learning to think before they build, covering requirements, feature shaping, ERDs, and application architecture.

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Planning a series of YouTube lives atm 😎

So apparently you now need to verify your identity on here to access direct messages ... This is part of a new UK legislation, mostly focusing on adult websites. Last time I checked, bluesky was meant to be a social network If you don't get a reply to a DM, it's because I refuse to play along

Writing a free "Laravel API Handbook" based on years of building APIs that actually scale. Looking for a company sponsor who wants to support developer education and reach the Laravel community. If that's you (or you know someone), let's chat! 🚀 #Laravel #API #Sponsorship

I've been working on something a little fun for Laravel 👀 This isn't its final form, but I think it's getting close!

Currently working on my strategy for the next 12 months as a freelance dude. How's your Thursday going?

I think I might do something with my resume-php package on a live stream next week. Start building some tooling and services around the specification 💪

live stream tomorrow at 10am BST I will be building "Threaddit" - an API only social network. A fun little Laravel experiment I came up with! www.youtube.com/live/_Uhd_h1...

Threaddit - API only social network

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Kind of fancy doing a live stream tomorrow

Multi-tenancy in Laravel can be a pain, luckily Laravel Sprout is here to make it easy all while getting out of your way. juststeveking.com/articles/mul...

Multi-tenancy Without the Hassle

Learn how to build a multi-tenant application in Laravel using Sprout, avoiding the common pitfalls of manual tenant management.

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Tomorrow I will be adding a fun little subdomain to my website using @astro.build - adding a handy little "now" app/page to highlight some of the stuff I'm currently doing. Why not join me? www.youtube.com/live/OEDoHrS...

Building & Deploying an Astro website

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I thought I'd try a fun experiment, instead of me building a project on YouTube and calling it a "Let's build" - why don't I completely over engineer ideas and call it "Let's over-engineer" 🙃 Would this be fun? You can live vicariously through my exploits

What are MCP servers, and why should I care? I took a look into MCP servers, what they are, how we might use them, to figure out if they're just the next hype train - or something actually useful. juststeveking.com/articles/wha...

What are MCP Servers, and why should I care?

Discover how Model Context Protocol servers are revolutionizing Laravel development by connecting AI to your codebase for smarter debugging and coding workflows.

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Let's talk about @nuxt.com and why you should be using it juststeveking.com/articles/nux...

Nuxt and why you should be using it

Discover the power of Nuxt.js for building modern web applications. Learn why you should consider using it for your next project.

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Now at the bottom of each article, I'm showing related articles based on how I've tagged the content. Thanks @nuxt.com 🔥 that was less than 30 minutes of effort

New website, who dis? Juststeveking.link

📢 Our next event is up! On Wednesday 11 June, Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com will show us how to implement the Outbox Pattern in Laravel. There will also be two lightning talks about Drupal's latest and PHPStorm's Junie. 📅 Details and registration 👇 www.meetup.com/php-s... #php

June | Reliable API Calls Without the Stress 🧘‍♂️ + Lightning Talks ⚡, Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

This month we welcome returning speaker [Steve McDougall](https://x.com/JustSteveKing) a.k.a. JustSteveKing a.k.a. The API Guy, for a new talk about implementing the outbox

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Join me tomorrow at 11am BST as I start rebuilding my personal website using @nuxt.com and @laravel.com for the ultimate in DX 🔥 www.youtube.com/live/zFILoHg...

Rebuilding juststeveking.com with Nuxt

Join me as we start rebuilding my personal website, starting with the NuxtJS frontend that will be used to manage content as well as integrate a Laravel API later on. This stream we will focus on get...

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So, should I be using layers for my @nuxt.com apps, or not 🤔

Less than a week to go until I do my talk for Laravel Live Pakistan 🎉🎉

Only a few weeks left for my talk at Laravel Live Pakistan 🎉 Really looking forward to this talk, webhooks are something that most people only dip into a little!

I made a thing today, so thought I'd share! Mapping business logic to a workflow has never been easier 🔥 github.com/JustSteveKin...

GitHub - JustSteveKing/laravel-flows: A fluent, modular workflow builder for Laravel that leverages the Pipeline pattern to simplify and organise business logic.

A fluent, modular workflow builder for Laravel that leverages the Pipeline pattern to simplify and organise business logic. - JustSteveKing/laravel-flows

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So I have a slight gap between clients at the moment, would anyone like to chat about freelance work? Either hands on code, consulting, or even content creation!

It was a pleasure to work with @juststeveking.com on this 💙

Steve McDougall@juststeveking.com · 2y ago

I recently teamed up with @hookdeck.com to create the definitive guide to webhooks in Laravel 🔥 Article: juststeveking.link/hda Video: juststeveking.link/hdv Website: juststeveking.link/hook

1. Capture the request in your router 2. Validate source and payload via middleware 3. Pass validated data to the controller 4. Push payload to a background job for processing 5. Ensure quick responses & keep HTTP processing minimal Thanks, @juststeveking.com 👨‍🏫

Steve McDougall@juststeveking.com · 2y ago

I recently teamed up with @hookdeck.com to create the definitive guide to webhooks in Laravel 🔥 Article: juststeveking.link/hda Video: juststeveking.link/hdv Website: juststeveking.link/hook

I recently teamed up with @hookdeck.com to create the definitive guide to webhooks in Laravel 🔥 Article: juststeveking.link/hda Video: juststeveking.link/hdv Website: juststeveking.link/hook

Hookdeck - A reliable Event Gateway for event-driven applications

Hookdeck is an Event Gateway. A platform giving engineering teams infrastructure and developer tooling to build, deploy, operate, and monitor event-driven applications.

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One link has 100% won the internet in 2024 for me techarseholeoftheyear.com

Tech Arsehole of the Year: Matt Mullenweg

Presenting Tech Arsehole of the Year award to Mr. Matt Mullenweg

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Join me tomorrow at 10:30 UK time as we dive into building a website with @astro.build for a project I am starting www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA6I...

Building websites using Astro

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