A Blog
by Pim Veelders

Hi there!

I'm a fullstack developer and proud father of three kids. I've worked with quite a few programming languages/frameworks over the years. Nowadays I'm mostly using Laravel, Vue and Tailwind, which I really enjoy.

Blog

Measuring front-end render times in Inertia and Vue

Inertia offers a nice way to use modern front-end techniques when building Laravel applications. However, creating a javascript heavy front-end also introduces new possible performance bottlenecks since more processing is performed in the browser.
March 5, 2021

Using Eloquent models in simple front-end components

When you only need a few columns of an Eloquent model and you need to rename those columns, use the model's select() method when retrieving data.
August 11, 2020

Querying Eloquent morph relations

Laravel's Eloquent offers polymorphic relations which give you extra flexibility when modelling your data. Not only that, creating complex queries is a lot less painful.
January 30, 2020

Setting up a nice dev environment using WSL2 in Windows 10

If you use Windows and Visual Studio Code, but want to run your code on Linux, Windows 10 with WSL2 is the way to go! You can install and configure a full webserver on Linux and simultaneously use Windows.
November 6, 2019