Dan Newns. Developer. Writer. Speaker.
11+ years building production Laravel at Jump24 — one of the UK's most respected Laravel agencies. I write weekly about PHP, tooling, and the community that shaped my career.
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Experiment: Using Pest 4 as a Standalone Browser Testing Suite for Legacy Applications.
Here's a scenario we encounter regularly at Jump24: a client has a legacy application - perhaps built in CakePHP, CodeIgniter, or even a custom framework - and they want to add automated browser testing. The catch? They don't want to pollute the existing codebase with test dependencies, and frankly, the application wasn't built with testing in mind.
Fatherhood, First Talks, and Finally Trusting Myself: 2025 in Review
If you'd asked me at the start of 2025 what the year would look like, I don't think I could have predicted just how much would change. Some years are about big career moves or business milestones. This year was about something far more important.
Inertia.js Once Props: Stop Sending the Same Data Over and Over Again
We've been long time fans of Inertia.js here at Jump24 and honestly, it's become our go-to for building modern Laravel applications without the faff of maintaining a separate API layer. Between deferred props, prefetching, and partial reloads, the Inertia team has been absolutely smashing it with performance features lately.
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