this is why (esp w/ js) I always use the google search w/in the past year feature. When looking for src code for ideas on ghub, I always sort by last updated or most starred but make sure the ones I check have been updated in past year... etc... Standards change so fast, and I feel coding is getting 'better' in terms of processes, that doing it like they did in 2015 is a step back sometimes, plus js itself has changed a lot, so has laravel, and other frameworks. Always good to get the latest data on something.

As a side note, I've found some 'gems' from tutorials that I knew were shitty novices or intermediate devs at best just writing to expand their career or do inbound marketing or something, but they made me think about a solution to something differently, or they touched on something I didn't know anything about, having never done it before like some api or auth system.

TLDR: I think with all tutorials it's buyer beware - especially coding tutorials, filter by date, don't expect perfect 10x dev tips unless you're on egghead, laracasts, railscasts, pluralsight (some other coding mooc that claims master level expertise), and if you write posts as a jr/intermediate dev, maybe try coming back to them when you 'level up' and make them better/more relevant.