Improve user experience while keeping an eye on performance
A nice touch by Joel Clermont
Read more [masteringlaravel.io]
How to use one-time passwords in Laravel
A nice video from Povilas on our newest pacakage
Read more [www.youtube.com]
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React, visualized
– react.gg
A visual exploration of core React concepts
Read more [react.gg]
What sets Tempest apart as a framework for modern PHP development
Brent is doing some interesting stuff here.
Read more [tempestphp.com]
Your System Isn’t Slow – Your Bottleneck is not Optimized
A bottleneck isn’t inherently bad, we all have them. What matters is making sure your biggest bottleneck is always working at it’s most optimal conditions. That’s where your optimizations should be focused.
Read more [benmckay.com]
PHP 8.4's new Dom\HTMLDocument in Diffs
With PHP 8.4’s release, we have a new Dom\HTMLDocument class that makes working with HTML documents easier and more standards-compliant, while fixing some long-standing bugs in the old DOMDocument class.
Read more [liamhammett.com]
15 Lesser known Spatie Laravel Packages and Projects
Povilas from Laravel Daily made a cool video about our packages.
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A package to handle one-time passwords (OTP) in Laravel apps original
Our new package gives you everything you need to build a secure one-time password auth flow.
Read more [spatie.be]
It's never just that simple
When you say "just," you're skipping over all the invisible complexity.
Read more [www.neverjust.net]
Do not call toArray() to get all items from a Laravel Collection
Something that you’ll need to often is casting the collection back to a regular array. Like me, you might be tempted to use toArray() for this. But that might be the wrong method to call.
Read more [spatie.be]
PHP Benchmarks: 8.4 performance is steady compared to 8.3 and 8.2
Tests performed by Tideways show that, in general, the performance between 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 does not move much for a Laravel, Symfony and WordPress demo application.
Read more [tideways.com]
Simplifying work with custom stubs in Laravel
– blog.genijaho.dev - submitted by Geni Jaho
Stubs are fake implementations of interfaces or classes that simulate the behavior of real services.
Read more [blog.genijaho.dev]
Impostor Syndrome – Maybe I’m Not Good Enough?
– www.moisis.dev - submitted by Moisis Hadjiagathangelou
After more than 9 years working with Laravel—leading a dev team and architecting solutions—I still sometimes feel like I’m not doing enough.
Read more [www.moisis.dev]
Real-world uses of TypeScript’s utility types
Utility types are types that modify other types. You can think of them as functions, but they operate on types instead of values.
Read more [piccalil.li]
Five levels of handling images in Laravel
We'll cover resizing, image optimization, and UI enhancements and show how Spatie's packages and products can make the whole process easier, more efficient, and even a bit fun.
Read more [spatie.be]
What nobody tells developers about documentation
Users don’t know what your product does, how to use it, or why they would use it. You need docs to explain this.
Read more [newsletter.posthog.com]
A package to handle passkeys in Laravel original
I’m proud to announce that we’ve released a new package called spatie/laravel-passkeys that makes adding passkeys to a Laravel app as easy as it can be.
Read more [spatie.be]
Introducing PHP Operators
Here's a fun little sideproject from my colleague Seb. This web app is built with Laravel, Alpine.js, and Tailwind CSS. Content is stored in Markdown files and loaded with our sheets package.
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Livewire and Inertia: how we love and use both at Spatie
If you held an individual Spatie employee at gunpoint (please don't) and forced them to pick a favorite, you'll get a 50/50 split. But when we look at the choice at hand as a team, it becomes easier to determine the right fit.
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Settling the File Structure Debate
– muhammedsari.me - submitted by Muhammed Sari
Group by type or context / process? One of these methods will crush your project's growth. Find out which!
Read more [muhammedsari.me]
