Arian Acosta

Easy Event Throttling in React

March 19, 2018/By arian

Sometimes we need to limit the number of times a function is called. This is especially useful for events that are fired multiple times and that result in expensive operations like making an asynchronous call...

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MongoDB Full Text Search Tutorial

MongoDB, Node.js

March 8, 2018/By arian

In this tutorial, we are going to explore how to setup MongoDB for full text search using Node.js and Mongoose. Using Mongoose is completely optional as the full text search is a native feature...

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Optimizing PNG Images for Web

General

February 9, 2018/By arian

Web developers spend a lot of time trying to optimize files to make web pages load faster. Modern web applications often minify and bundle JavaScript and CSS for that purpose, but we often forget to...

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Tutorial: Full Text Search on Laravel 5

Laravel, MariaDB, MySQL

June 14, 2017/By arian

MySQL provides a powerful mechanism for searching text across multiple columns. This feature is called Full Text Search and was reserved for tables of type MyISAM. Luckily enough, it has been added to tables of type...

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Setting only the created_at timestamp in Laravel

Laravel

March 16, 2017/By arian

In Laravel 5 migrations, the method $table->timestamps() creates the created_at and updated_at columns, but sometimes we just need one of the two. The issue is that Eloquent models by default use both and disabling one of the two can...

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Bypassing Mass Assignment Protection in Laravel

Laravel

March 8, 2017/By arian

Eloquent models have a great feature called Mass Assignment Protection. This feature skips unwanted attributes when creating or updating a model. This is useful to pass an array of attributes to the model and filter only...

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Installing Laravel on cPanel

DevOps, Laravel

March 3, 2017/By arian

Creating and running a Laravel application is a snap, but installing it on production servers may be overwhelming for first comers. In this tutorial, we will cover how to deploy a Laravel application from...

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Resizing Swap File with Bash

Linux

March 1, 2017/By arian

Linux machines use a disk partition called swap as an extension of memory. Properly setting the swap size is particularly important for small VPS nodes. For instance, I spawned a couple of droplets on...

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