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Our Black Friday Sale is Live! Now through December 7th all our plans are 50% for our Black Friday sale, including our forever plan! That means Adocasts Plus can be had for: $4 per month $40 per year, or $142.50 for life (pay once then never again) The best part? This isn't 50% off your first month or three months, like most other sales. This one lasts the entire duration of your subscription! Meaning, if you lock in $4/mo today it stays $4/mo for however long you're subscribed. Use code...

Adocasts Monthly November 2025 Hey happy November! 👋 Tom from Adocasts here, I know its been a while since I've sent out a newsletter, so let's catch up real quick. New Series We've got a number of new series out. Just this past week we finished up our Building a Multi-Search with Meilisearch & AdonisJS series in which we utilized tools like Meilisearch, Unpoly, and AlpineJS in an AdonisJS project to built a search bar that searches multiple indexes in a single go. Building a Multi-Search...

Black Friday Sale

Issue #1 Our Black Friday Sale Is Live! A little over a year ago we introduced Adocasts Plus, our subscription unlocking full access to all our lessons & more. Today, we're excited to run our first sale for Black Friday! For a limited time, you can get Adocasts Plus for 50% off, valid for all our plans. That puts our monthly plan at $4, annual at $40, and our forever plan at $143. Hurry on over, because this sale is only available through Dec 2nd! Use code "FRIDAY" during checkout. View Plans...

Let's Learn AdonisJS 6 - Done! What's Next? Hi Reader, Tom from Adocasts here, I hope you're doing well. Since late January, we've been super busy releasing lessons for our Let's Learn AdonisJS 6 series. Well, coming in at one hundred thirteen lessons long, our Let’s Learn AdonisJS 6 series is now complete. Moreover, all lessons are now available for free on both YouTube and the Adocasts site. As a friendly reminder, you’ll always be able to access our latest Let’s Learn AdonisJS series at...

Adocasts Wrapped - June 2023

Issue #5 Adocasts Wrapped - June 2023 Hey everyone, Tom here from Adocasts! First, thank you for your patience and understanding regarding the lack of content in April, May, and some of June. Remember to take care of your mental and physical health. Though we're just getting back into the swing of things, we do have some things to wrap up for June! Adocasts 3.0 Along with my return, Adocasts v3 was been released. We're now running AdonisJS with Unpoly and Alpine. This allows us to render...

2022 Wrapped, Adocasts Monthly

Issue #4 2022 Wrapped, Adocasts Monthly Happy New Year, everyone! First I want to thank you all for your support, questions, feedback, and love throughout 2022! Your kind words and love, help us keep posting week after week. Your questions keep our ever growing queue of lesson ideas growing. And, your feedback helps us improve our craft. 2022 was a great year of growth for us compared to 2021, so let's take a step back and look at what we accomplished. Then, we'll look forward at what's ahead...

Issue #1 September 2021 Adocasts Monthly A sneak-peak of what’s to come in November 2021 and a roundup of what’s new from October 2021. Let's Build with AdonisJS Late in October, we started a brand new series called Let’s Build with AdonisJS. This series is going to be long-form videos done via livestreams where we specifically focus on building an application. To start with, we’ll be rebuilding adocasts.com. Rebuilding Adocasts, Start & AuthIn this livestream we create a new project, install...

Issue #1 September 2021 Adocasts Monthly A sneak-peak of what’s to come in October 2021 and a roundup of what’s new from September 2021. Let's Learn AdonisJS 5 Our focus in September 2021 for our Let’s Learn Adonis 5 series was zeroed in on routing in AdonisJS. We introduced routing and covered route parameters, matchers/validators, ways we can organize our route files, and ways we can organize our route definitions using groups. Routing IntroductionWe'll learn how to define routes in Adonis...

Issue #1 December 2021 Adocasts Monthly Happy New Year, everyone! In this issue, I not only want to focus on what’s new from December but also briefly reflect on 2021 as a whole and what our focus for 2022 entails. We’ll start by rounding up December. AdonisJS in 15 Minutes We started a new series called AdonisJS in 15 Minutes. Its first lesson, AdonisJS Authentication in 15 Minutes was the most popular lesson we put out in December. The series itself will focus on tasks you can complete with...