Top 10 Technical Hitches of Using Laravel and How to Overcome Them

Laravel is coveted as the most popular PHP web framework in the world right now, and with good reason. It has a lot to offer with its vast ecosystem of Laravel packages, great communities, and good documentation. What's not to love? Well, it turns out that many people, myself included, run into some simple problems when using it more often than I'll frankly admit. 99% is due to developer errors so I will mention some of them. Now. We will cover the more complex common issues in a later post as they require more attention. 

If you face some technical problems, Soft Solutions4U over all your problems.  

1 ) Addressing Technical Vulnerabilities

Challenge you're facing: 

Fix technical (and thus "security-related") vulnerabilities that inevitably "infiltrate" your web application during the development process (e.g., cross-site scripting, SQL injection, etc.) 

Laravel's solution:

• It comes with a shield against all significant vulnerabilities. 

• Its codebase has been constantly examined and monitored by hundreds of developers.

2) Error and Exception Handling 

 challenge you're facing: 

• Configure your application to handle errors correctly (data entry forms are the most common "error generators") 

• allow for quick notifications (error messages), so the user knows they've entered incorrect data

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Laravel's solution:

• Error handling is already configured; the PHP framework already includes the monolog logging library and robust support for various long handlers.

• Make regular updates to minimize bugs on your website/app.

3) Creating a Custom and Secure Authentication and Authorization System

 challenge you're facing: 

Assemble a user authorization and authentication system to prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to your application's costly resources/critical data

Laravel's solution:

• It provides you with everything you need to set up your authentication system.

• Right from the start, it makes structuring your authorization logic very easy and gives you complete control over all the necessary resources. 

4) Configuring URL Routing

 Challenge you're facing: 

Define clean and straightforward URL routing so your app clearly understands the user's intent, precisely which page they want to navigate to

Laravel's solution:

• You can find all the routes of your Laravel PHP framework in your app/Http/routes.php file and (don't worry, they are loaded by default )

• The primary routes accept Closure and URI, allowing you to create your routes to configure easily.

5) Integrating Your Web App With Mail Services

 Challenge you're facing: 

Build a system that sends notifications to your subscribers after important events

Laravel's solution:

• provides a simple but powerful and clean API on top of the SwiftMailer library;

•  It also gives you drivers for Mandrill, SparkPost, Mailgun, SMTP, Amazon SES, Sendmail, PHP's mail function; a "plug-and-play" solution for your application to send emails instantly via an on-premises or cloud-based service.

6) Scheduling Automated Tests With Laravel PHP Framework 

 Challenge you're facing: 

Launch automated testing sessions that are much more effective and generally more accurate than standard manual sessions.

Laravel's solution:

Laravel's PHP framework comes with out-of-the-box PHP unit tests and a phpunit.xml file. It is also equipped with functionalities that enable meaningful testing by simulating expected user behavior (clicking on links, filling out forms, etc.).

Summary

Laravel's PHP framework streamlines your basic development tasks (turns them from "challenges" to simple "to-do" tasks) and saves you valuable time. The time you can spend with "building regulations." 

We're more than excited to read your thoughts on this web framework!