Our last batch of new lessons for 2025 are out now! In these, we'll learn about: - Testing Ace commands - Functional vs Unit tests - Japa's API Client Ready to watch?

The next AdonisJS docs will ship with dedicated LLM endpoints. Not just an llms.txt listing pages. Actual cheat sheets crafted for AI assistants. Minimal context, maximum accuracy. Your AI pair programmer is about to get much better at AdonisJS 🤖

4 new Testing with Japa lessons just landed! In these, we'll learn: - About IoC Container Bindings - How to swap Container Bindings with Mocks - How to use AdonisJS's Fakes - Plus more Ready to learn? 🎓 adocasts.com/lessons/test... Preview 👇

Your app is slow. But where exactly? Introducing OpenTelemetry for AdonisJS with zero-config setup. One command. Full observability. - Auto-instrumented HTTP, DB queries, Redis - Traces, metrics, and logs correlated out of the box - Works with v6 and upcoming v7 adonisjs.com/blog/introdu...

Shipping a new ESLint rule: no-backend-import-in-frontend Catches accidental backend imports in your Inertia frontend files at lint time. Type imports still allowed, and you can whitelist shared paths. One less runtime surprise 🙌

In our latest batch of Testing with Japa lessons, you'll learn how to: → Prevent false positives with async tests → Use datasets to optimize your test data → Focus test runs with skipped, pinned, and tagged tests Test smarter, not harder ⤵︎ buff.ly/AFOOHmR

We updated our session package so you can now store sessions in your database! 🔥 On top of that, we added session tagging across drivers (redis, database) with a new SessionCollection API to easily manage all sessions for a user. docs.adonisjs.com/guides/basic...

You can now find the full lesson plan for our Japa series directly on the Adocasts site! This is part of a small QOL update to make planned content more transparent and clear! adocasts.com/series/pragm...

3 new Testing in AdonisJS with Japa lessons are out now! In these, we'll: » Cover common assertions » Discuss easy test naming » Walk through group & test hooks Ready? 👇

The first 4 lessons of our new series, Pragmatic Testing in AdonisJS with Japa, are out now and available to all! Ready to get started with the foundations? 👇

Our next series on testing AdonisJS apps with Japa will be starting later this week with the first four lessons! 👇 full series outline

Happy Black Friday! Quick reminder that you can get 50% off any Adocasts Plus plan, now through Dec 7th. The best part? This isn't 50% off your first month, like most other sales. This one lasts the entire duration of your subscription! Use code "FRIDAY2025" at checkout! buff.ly/jufRl5C

Level up your skills this Black Friday! Get your Adocasts Plus subscription for 50% off all plans! Unlock exclusive series, private repositories, and the new in-lesson notes feature. Don't miss out, this deal is only good until December 7th! adocasts.com/pricing #webdev #blackfriday

Planning for our next series is coming along nicely (little over half way done)! Normally I prepare a per-lesson outline and a supplemental code base, but this time I have the supplemental code base and am doing step-by-step planning per lesson. 😄

New lesson out now! ⤵︎ We'll learn how to generate dynamic Open Graph (OG) images using AdonisJS & Puppeteer. We'll also add rate limiting to limit the number of OG images being generated at once and discuss some things to watch out for. Ready to watch? buff.ly/GYTD1Fk

The last 2 lessons in our Multi-Search series are out now! In these, we'll learn how to dynamically add and remove documents from our Meilisearch indexes as data is created or deleted within our application. Ready to watch 📺

In today's lesson, we'll piece everything together into our final multi-search by searching across our book, genre, and author indexes within Meilisearch with a single call. We'll also discuss how we can get a single federated result array back if desired. Ready to watch? buff.ly/8Rhu9fw Preview

Well rats, thought we had 3 lessons prepped for tomorrow, but instead only have one... was looking at the wrong thing. Will go ahead and release the one tomorrow and the remaining two next week! Those remaining 2 will end our multi-search series!

2 new multi-search lessons are out now! In these, things begin to fall in place as we implement our first full-text search using Meilisearch. Then, we'll enhance our results by handling the form with Unpoly. Ready to go? buff.ly/IS0vNnQ Preview:

2 more Multi-Search lessons are out now! In these, we'll work on getting our seeded data indexed as documents within Meilisearch using a service and Ace CLI command! Ready to go? buff.ly/yby7VtQ Preview 👇

2 new Multi-Search lessons are out now! In these, we work on setting up our database so we have some stuff to search against by creating our models, migrations, factories, and a seeder to stub some fake data! Ready to go? buff.ly/Bf97wdb Preview 👇

The first 3 lessons in our Multi-Search series are out now! In these, we: - Introduce our goal in this series - Get Meilisearch set up locally - Set up our AdonisJS project Ready to get started? buff.ly/FQurqDV Preview 👇

Our next series starts up this week! In it, we'll implement a fully server-rendered multi-search utilizing: - Meilisearch - Unpoly - AlpineJS

10 fucking years and more to come! 🚀 If you're looking for stability and consistency in the Node.js ecosystem, this is the choice to make. Be honest, how many times have you switched framework or ORM in the past decade?

AdonisJS has been around for a decade now 🎉 From a humble idea to a modern, debt‑free framework, thanks to a passionate community pushing it forward. Read more about the journey & what comes next 👇 adonisjs.com/blog/a-decad...

Happy 10th birthday to @adonisjs.com!! 🥳 So thankful for all the time, dedication, and love that has been put into making this an amazing NodeJS framework to build with! And, a fantastic community to boot! Here's to the next decade! 🥂

A new quick tip is out now! In this one, we'll discuss how to globally alter Lucid's BaseModel to make global changes across all your application's models. We'll use the naming strategy & serialize extras as examples. Ready to go? ↓

Some apps require multiple modes of authentication. In today's lesson, we'll step through the process of configuring both session and opaque access token auth guards within a new AdonisJS 6 project! Ready to start? ↓ buff.ly/1UVvwNH

Slow queries happen. In today's lesson, we'll learn how to: → Log the SQL generated by Lucid (globally or for specific queries) → Analyze the query's execution plan → Create indexes via migrations Ready to learn? ↓ buff.ly/ZCarv0K

Just released a remake of our lesson on redirecting users back to their previous page after login! The new version adds key security measures for: • URL validation • On-site redirection • Route verification adocasts.com/lessons/how-...

We're working on adding testimonials to Adocasts! If you'd like to share your feedback, you can now do so from your user menu! We haven't rigged these up to display anywhere yet, but that'll be the next steps! 😀 adocasts.com

This was a rough weekend for Adocasts. I deeply apologize for the site's unexpected downtime. I've just published a blog post explaining everything that went wrong and how we've fixed it. Thanks for your patience!! You can read more here: buff.ly/XmWU45X

Our final Adding an API lesson is out now! We'll cover how to throttle how often an organization can hit our API using HTTP Rate Limits, which is crucial for preventing spam, limiting content access, and managing server load. Ready to learn? ↓ buff.ly/yKi1DOu

A new Adding an API lesson just dropped! We'll learn how to let users choose which relationships to include in their API responses; covering validation, preloading, and watch to watch for with ordering! Ready to learn? ↓ buff.ly/5caNXxW

A new Adding an API lesson is out now! We'll utilize before and after properties to allow for filtering that can look forward, backward, or within a specific date range on our lesson's publish at column. Ready to learn? ↓ buff.ly/pxkAQvX

2 more Adding an API lessons are out now! In these we'll continue our search endpoint work by making our course search action reusable and beginning our lesson search endpoint! Ready to learn? ↓ buff.ly/AzVnH8s

For the first time since starting Adocasts, we've invested in a new microphone!! I like the difference and I hope you will too. We're upgrading from a USB microphone to XLR. Little comparison 👇

In today's new Adding an API lesson, we're focusing on number-based filtering for our course! We'll use VineJS's union rule to handle both single numbers and array of numbers. We'll then add a custom error message to boot. Ready to learn? ↓ buff.ly/Ze39PnX

In today's Adding an API lesson, we upgrade our course name filter to support both simple strings and advanced object-based queries using VineJS’ union rule. This allows users to specify not just what to search for, but how to search for it. Ready to learn? ↓ buff.ly/yMSWy8Z

Today we start our searching module in our Adding an API series! In this lesson, we'll start with some basic filters (name likeness and status, difficulty, and/or access level matching) and set up our course's search endpoint. Ready to begin? ↓ adocasts.com/lessons/basi...

A new lessons has landed in our Adding an API series! In this one, we'll add a new GET endpoint for our lessons resource that will allow us to fetch a module's specific lessons in their defined order. After this, we'll move onto searching! Ready to go? ↓ buff.ly/ekjPiqT

Another new lesson just dropped in our Adding an API series along with a minor fix (noticed our linting wasn't working). So, in this lesson, we'll fix our lint issue then hammer out most of our lesson API resource methods. Ready to go? ↓ buff.ly/fHywvNP

A new lesson just dropped in our Adding an API series! We'll remove the modules show route from our resource using except, then refactor to add a GetModules action for our modules index & courses show routes. Get started ↓ buff.ly/r5xoN1K

3 new Adding an API to an AdonisJS Web App lessons are out now! In these we'll: ⇒ Get a course's details, modules, & lessons ⇒ Update a course's tags ⇒ Create a nested resource for our modules 🤿 Dive on in!

3 new lessons are out now in our Adding an API series! In these, we'll: ⇒ Add an endpoint to get a paginated list of our courses ⇒ Allow creating, updating, & deleting courses via our API Ready to get going? 👇

🚀 The AdonisJS 7 roadmap is live! Standalone Lucid, better Inertia support, type-safe URLs, built-in notifications, diagnostics, encryption, and more. Check out what’s coming next, and tell us what you think! adonisjs.com/blog/roadmap...

3 new Adding an API to an AdonisJS Web App lessons are out now! In these we'll follow up on our previous lessons by adding the completed CRUD flow for our access levels & status. Then, we'll implement our token's authorization checks! Ready to learn? 👇

5 new Adding an API to an AdonisJS Web App lessons are out now! In these, we'll walk through adding API endpoints for CRUD operations for our organization's difficulties. - We'll apply our validations - Discuss how to omit our API endpoints from Shield's CSRF protection + more!

4 new lessons are out now in our Adding an API AdonisJS 6 series! In these we'll: ⇒ Briefly introduce REST ⇒ Create our first endpoint ⇒ Set up a REST client ⇒ Add basic API versioning Ready to learn? 🎓

2 new lessons are out now in our Adding an API series! In these, we'll wrap up adding authentication within our app by allowing our users to copy their newly created access tokens as well as delete any existing tokens. Ready to learn? 👇