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👋 Hello Dev,

Beam is a friendly app that boosts your Laravel PHP coding and debugging experience.

When using Beam, you can see the result of your debug displayed in a standalone Desktop application.

These are some debug tools available for you:

• Dump single or multiple variables at once.
• Send dump, dd to Beam app.
• Watch Laravel Mail.
• See your dumped values in a Table, with a built-in search feature.
• Improve your debugging experience using different screens.
• Watch SQL Queries.
• Watch Slow Queries SQL Queries.
• Monitor Laravel Logs.
• Monitor Livewire component.
• Validate JSON strings.
• Verify if a string contains a substring.
• View phpinfo() configuration.
• List your Laravel Routes.
• Inspect Model attributes.
• Learn more in our Reference Sheet.
• Multiple Themes (light, dark, dracula, dim, retro ...)
• Shortcuts (clear, always on top)

Get Started

Requirements

PHP 8.1+ and Laravel 10.0+

Using Laravel

 composer require palzin/beam --dev

PHP Project

 composer require palzin/beam-core --dev

See also: https://palzin.app/beam

• Debug your code using ds() in the same way you would use Laravel's native functions dump() or dd().

• Run your Laravel application and see the debug dump in the Beam App window.

Example

Here's an example:

// File: routes/web.php

<?php 

Route::get('/', function () {
    ds('Home page accessed!');
    return view('home');
});

The Desktop App receives:

// File: routes/web.php

<?php 

Route::get('/', function () {
    \App\Models\User::all(); // duplicate query example
    \App\Models\User::all(); // duplicate query example
    \App\Models\Dish::all();
    return '';
});

The Desktop App receives: