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Tips and tricks to help you level up your skills with AdonisJS. These are typically shorter, hyper-focused, lessons meant to answer frequently asked questions throughout the AdonisJS community.
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AdonisJS in 15
In this series, we'll highlight various features in AdonisJS you can complete in about 15 minutes or less.


AdonisJS Quick Tip
Quick tips, lessons, and screencasts covering specific topics on AdonisJS.


Let's Learn AdonisJS 5
Learn AdonisJS 5 in-depth as we step through all the major functionalities of the framework in-depth. Learn about Routing, Controllers, Lucid, Auth, and much more.
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How To Use AdonisJS Model Hooks To Log All User Actions
In this lesson, we’ll be taking a look at how we can log any and every user action performed against our AdonisJS models.

Gracefully Checking and Handling An Expired Auth Session
In this lesson, we’ll take a look at how to gracefully reset the user’s stale session, which includes authentication, CSRF tokens, or anything else you may have set for the user.

How To Redirect Back to the Previous Page After Login with AdonisJS
In this lesson, we'll learn an easy way we can redirect our user's back to their original page after they login or register in an AdonisJS application.

Minify Your AdonisJS HTML in 5 Minutes
We'll learn how we can alter all our AdonisJS HTML response bodies using a simple global middleware to add HTML minification.

How To Create Your Own Global Helpers in AdonisJS
In this lesson, we'll learn how we can create our own globally available helper methods & properties in AdonisJS.

How To Use Vue 3 with TypeScript in an AdonisJS Project
In this lesson, we’ll learn how to set up a Vue 3 TypeScript application within our AdonisJS project using Webpack Encore. We’ll start by getting Vue 3 working, then sprinkle in TypeScript support.

Http Method Spoofing & Helper Components in AdonisJS
In this lesson, we'll learn how we can utilize Http Method Spoofing to send PUT, PATCH, and DELETE requests using native HTML forms. We'll then create utility functions to make the implementation cleaner.

How To Do Multi Model Authentication with AdonisJS and Lucid ORM
In this lesson, we'll learn how to set up multi-model authentication using a User and Admin model with AdonisJS and Lucid ORM.

How To Make Your AdonisJS Authentication Login Case-Insensitive
Learn how to make the AdonisJS login attempt query case-insensitive easily by adding a simple method to our User Model.

How To Add A Custom Method to the Model Query Builder in AdonisJS
In this lesson, we'll learn how to define a macro for the Model Query Builder within an AdonisJS project to provide a new method onto all our Model's Query Builder.

How To Serialize All AdonisJS Lucid Model Properties As Camel Case
In this lesson, we'll learn how to use Naming Strategies in AdonisJS to alter the serialization behavior for all our model properties from snake case to camel case.

How To Add TailwindCSS to a New AdonisJS Project
This lesson covers creating a new AdonisJS project that includes Webpack Encore, then adding and configuring PostCSS and TailwindCSS within the project.

How To Add AdonisJS Edge Support to your WebStorm Environment
A quick tip on how to add AdonisJS Edge syntax highlighting to your JetBrains WebStorm environment using the VSCode plugin and TextMate Bundles.

Debugging, Inspecting, and Freezing Code Execution
In this lesson, we cover a couple of ways to debug your AdonisJS application using the Edge inspect global function, the debugger keyword, and the Chromium NodeJS Devtools.

Getting Data by the User's Timezone with Luxon's DateTime
In this lesson, we'll learn how we can use the user's current time zone to create, update, or query time-sensitive information in AdonisJS using Luxon's DateTime object.

How To Add A Global Property To Your HttpContext in AdonisJS 5
In this lesson, we'll be covering how we can extend our HttpContext with a new property that we'll populate using a route parameter.

Extending the Adonis Router and Route Matchers
In this lesson, we'll be learning how we can add our own chainable methods using macros to the Adonis Router's Route, Route Group, Route Resource, Brisk Route, and Matchers properties.