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At Laracon US 2018 [Taylor Otwell] introduced Laravel Nova, a very shiny admin panel for Laravel applications.
I’m thrilled to announce the newest member of the Laravel ecosystem: Laravel Nova. Nova is a beautifully designed administration panel for Laravel. We’ve sweat the small details and carefully crafted Nova to not only look great, but to be a joy to work with.
Read more [medium.com]
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In season 3 of the Laravel podcast Matt Stauffer interviews people in the Laravel community. I had the pleasure of being the guest on the latest episode.
You can listen to the entire thing here: http://www.laravelpodcast.com/db8ee53b
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Following is a list of the world's top 100 websites by Alexa rank not automatically redirecting insecure requests to secure ones. You'll then find the top 50 sites by country underneath that. The data is driven by Scott Helme's nightly crawl and is explained in detail in the launch blog post for this project.
https://whynohttps.com/
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This talk given Ross Tuck at the exec(ut) conference is one of the best talks I ever saw. I highly recommend to sit comfortably and give it your full attention.
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Before we moved in to our new offices in 2014, we quickly set up a temporary one-page website, initially only in Dutch. It lasted for 4 years and bursted out of its frames ever since, because… hmm … no priority, no time. A new site was like a running joke for a long time, until Laracon US 2018…
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For the first time in 4 years we completely redesigned our company website. We launched it today. The site is a simple Laravel app with some technical niceties. True to form we also open sourced the app, you can find the code in this repo on GitHub. In this blogpost I'd like you to give you a tour…
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Marcel Pociot, serial open source creator, released another cool Laravel package.
When your Laravel project grows, so do the Laravel views. Sometimes it might be hard to figure out, which part of the output HTML was rendered using which template. With this package, you can take a peek into your Laravel views and find out which template is responsible for which part of the output HTML.
Read more [github.com]
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Scott Helme, creator of both securityheaders.com and report-uri.com introduces a header to enable or disable certain APIs on a webpage.
Feature Policy is being created to allow site owners to enable and disable certain web platform features on their own pages and those they embed. Being able to restrict the features your site can use is really nice but being able to restrict features that sites you embed can use is an even better protection to have.
Read more [scotthelme.co.uk]
In another cool blogpost, Matthias Noback explains a few best practices around newing up objects, illustrated with some great examples.
Consider the following rule: "When you create an object, it should be complete, consistent and valid in one go." It is derived from the more general principle that it should not be possible for an object to exist in an inconsistent state. I think this is a very important rule, one that will gradually lead everyone from the swamps of those dreaded "anemic" domain models. However, the question still remains: what does all of this mean?
Read more [matthiasnoback.nl]
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? Tip: the `abort` helper in @laravelphp can take any `Response` object!
— Joseph Silber (@joseph_silber) 19 juli 2018
Especially useful for redirection, since the `redirect` & `back` helpers only work in top-level controller methods.
When in a supporting method from which you can't `return`, use the `abort` helper ? pic.twitter.com/dFwhhXz211
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In most applications you store the state of the application in the database. If something needs to change you simply update values in a table. When using event sourcing you'll take a different approach. All changes to application state are stored as a series of events. The key benefit is that you…
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A lesser-known @laravelphp feature: You can define your IDE/editor in your config/app.php file to let the Whoops error handler allow you to open files directly from within the error message. pic.twitter.com/My0BUjTIrM
— Marcel Pociot (@marcelpociot) 10 juli 2018
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Last week I stumbled upon this little search utility called Spot, by Guillermo Rauch of Zeit.
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Larry Garfield, director of developer experience at Platform.sh, published some interesting numbers on arrays vs classes.
The first thing we can conclude is that if the one and only thing you care about is serialization/deserialization performance, associative arrays still win. They're the most time efficient by more than 50%, and the most space efficient by up to 20%. The second thing we can conclude is that stdClass should be used basically never. It's slower and more memory intensive than arrays in every circumstance. Just don't go there.
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In an older post on his blog Mohammed Said, Laravel Employee #1, shares a cool trick on how to avoid having to create an event listener.
Instead of having to create a class for the listener and another for the notification/mailable, wouldn't it be cool if we can register the Notification/Mailable as an event listener? ... While some may consider this an anti-SRP hack I think it's a pretty neat implementation that you can use in your application to prevent creating an extra listener class, your call :)
Read more [themsaid.com]
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Andrew Schmelyun collected some cool Eloquent niceties.
Over the last year or so, I’ve been collecting and (sometimes) tweeting about methods and helpers I’ve stumbled across in Laravel’s Eloquent ORM. Most of these aren’t that obvious in the documentation, but have made a huge impact as my applications have grown in both size and complexity.
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?? Who knew, Laravel's string helper class can generate uuids - woot!
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) July 5, 2018
If you care, here's my UUID model trait I use (the packages are too heavy handed for me) https://t.co/L8Il1sH5VA pic.twitter.com/K6OwkHKQBD
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Browsh is a small browser that you can run inside your terminal. If you don't want to install it locally, you can test is out by ssh'ing to it.
ssh brow.sh
Here's a screenshot of the https://www.brow.sh/ running in Browsh.
How cool is that! I don't see myself using this as my main browser soon, but it sure is a pretty cool project. It goes without saying that you should not type any sensitive data while using it via ssh.
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Marcel Pociot created another great package. laravel-dump-server will transmit all output of dump calls to another port on your system. This will avoid cluttering up the responses of your app with debug output. Here's a gif taken from the readme of the package:
https://github.com/beyondcode/laravel-dump-server
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The last few months I've been working on a package called laravel-event-projector. This package aims to be a simple and very pragmatic way to get started with event sourcing in Laravel. Ahead of it's release, which will happen in a few days, I've recorded a small video introduction. You can find the…
