Laravel Passport was introduced in Laravel 5.3 and uses PHP League’s oAuth2 server GitHub – thephpleague/oauth2-server: A spec compliant, secure by default PHP OAuth 2.0 Server. If you haven’t used it, it’s simply incredible. Within minutes you can get a functioning oAuth2 server up and running and people can log in across the web using […]

Using social logins helps onboard users to your app. Find out how to implement the big 3: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus

How to install and configure Laravel for an SPA environment. We will be building an app with an API first approach.

Out of the box, Laravel 5.3 ships with Twitter Bootstrap. However, if you are like me, you prefer Zurb Foundation 6. Setting up Laravel 5.3 to work with foundation is a breeze! After you install laravel, open your package.json file. You will see in the dev dependancies the reference to bootstrap. Remove that dependancy and […]

Update 5-25-2017
We’ve made it even easier for you to style HTML5 audio elements. Amplitude 3 is now available! Download it on GitHub. Check out the Amplitude site for latest documentation and a to see the latest features:

A unique issue presented itself while reviewing some of the comments in the article: http://serversideup.net/style-the-html-5-audio-element/. One of the questions was how to use the audio tag for live streams? The issue wasn’t necessarily playing the music, but getting the music to stop downloading when the user had the music paused (to save bandwidth) and to play from where the current point of the stream was at rather than starting from where the user paused the stream. With the latest release of AmplitudeJS, you can now manage live stream HTML5 audio sources and give you full control of the UI elements of the audio player.