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Learn and build with AdonisJS by following in-depth education screencast lessons. Content by @tomgobich.com

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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.

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November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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.

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October 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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.

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October 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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!

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October 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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!

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October 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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

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October 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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!

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September 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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

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September 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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! 😀

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September 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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.

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August 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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!

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August 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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.

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August 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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!

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August 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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.

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August 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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.

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August 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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.

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August 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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!

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July 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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.

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July 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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.

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July 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
3 more lessons are out now in our Adding an API to an AdonisJS Web App series! In these, we lay the ground work to get our API authentication fully configured alongside our preexisting web authentication!

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April 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Our next series, Adding an API to an AdonisJS Web App, kicks off now! The first 4 lessons are now available to Adocasts Plus members, with more on Monday!

In these, we'll intro our project & getting you familiar with the web app we'll be starting from.

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April 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
In today's lesson, we'll show you how to get TailwindCSS 4 up and running in a new AdonisJS 6 web project! We'll then discuss how you can add custom theme/colors & explain how v4 scans class candidates for purging.

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March 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
In today's new lesson, we'll take a look at a newish feature to AdonisJS called Dump & Die. It allows us to easily inspect variable contents in a pretty print format in the browser or console.

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March 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM