Let's take a look at how you can make use of Tinkerwell and Laravel 7 to consume HTTP APIs easily. As an example, we are going to use the Laravel Forge API. You can find the API documentation here. Making HTTP requests Since Tinkerwell 2.3.0, the default application in Tinkerwell is running on…
Since Tinkerwell 2.2, it is possible to interactivly debug your Laravel apps. You can think of it as a dd helper with super powers. It allows you to instantly open up Tinkerwell and make your variables available in Tinkerwell. Here's a quick video of how that looks like: To make use of this in your…
One of my most common use-cases is dispatching Laravel jobs with Tinkerwell while I develop the job itself. Previously I did this via php artisan tinker and had to restart my tinker session every time I changed my code to get the latest changes. Tinkerwell always uses the most recent source code,…
Tinkerwell bootstraps your application with something that we call driver and adds common use cases to a right-click context menu item. At the time of this writing, Tinkerwell supports Laravel, October CMS and Wordpress out of the box. If none of the drivers match your application, the fallback…
In this blog post, I want to share one of my daily use cases with Tinkerwell. Of course, tinkering with random code is perfect with it–but there is a lot more where Tinkerwell can help you in your daily workflow. Querying your database Before I had Tinkerwell, I was using Table Plus a lot. I was…