Discovering PHP's yield Keyword After 10 Years
An article explaining PHP's yield keyword and how it can be use in place of return to easily build iterators.
Read more [ides.dev]
Bulletproofing Inertia: How I maximize Type Safety in Laravel Monoliths
Here's how you can use our Laravel Data package.
Read more [matthiasweiss.at]
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Lessons From Eloqent Performance Patterns (Cheatsheet)
– stephenjude.me - submitted by STEPHEN JUDE
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API design note: Beware of adding an “Other” enum value
Beware of "Other"!
Read more [devblogs.microsoft.com]
Build UI's that don't suck
Christmas came very early! Adam Wathan published a new free course.
Read more [tailwindcss.com]
PHP Ecosystem Deep Dive: The Code Quality Landscape
Some very cool numbers on the PHP ecosystem, gathered by Jean-François Lépin.
Read more [blog.lepine.pro]
Seeing Red, or Maybe Green? How Tailwind Helps Colourblind Designers
– liamhammett.com - submitted by Liam Hammett
It may only be a side effect of its colour palette and class naming conventions, but as a colourblind developer, Tailwind has made it SO EASY to design with sensible colours - a superpower I've been missing my whole life
Read more [liamhammett.com]
Deploying to Laravel Cloud with Queues – Easy Guide | Tutorial
– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
This simple step-by-step guide teaches you how to deploy your Laravel project to Laravel Cloud! We'll cover everything from setup to handling queues for background tasks.
What you'll learn: ✅ Deploying a Laravel project to the cloud ✅ Setting up and managing queues ✅ Optimizing performance for scalability
Read more [youtu.be]
Preventing Destructive Commands from Running in Laravel
– ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen
Read about how to use the Illuminate\Console\Prohibitable trait to prevent destructive commands from running in your Laravel application. We'll also look at how to prevent your own custom Artisan commands from running using this trait.
Read more [ashallendesign.co.uk]
🚀 Deploying a Laravel Project on Forge with Reverb WebSockets | Real-Time Setup Tutorial
– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
Want to deploy your Laravel project on Forge with real-time WebSockets using Reverb? In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll walk you through setting up Laravel Forge, configuring your server, and integrating Reverb for real-time communication. Whether you're building a chat app, notifications system, or live updates, this guide will help you get everything running smoothly.
Read more [youtu.be]
Five Practical Tips to Improve Search in Laravel Apps With Typesense
– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
Learn how to install and configure Typesense in a Laravel app, then optimize search by sorting records, using filters, adjusting typo tolerance, accessing raw responses, and leveraging facets for better filtering.
Read more [tighten.com]
What to expect from open source?
– spatie.be - submitted by Spatie
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Introducing laravel-tfa-confirmation
– stefanzweifel.dev - submitted by Stefan Zweifel
A new Laravel package to protect sensitive routes or actions with a confirmation-screen and ask for the two-factor authentication code of a user.
Read more [stefanzweifel.dev]
Importing 1.7 billion rows of CSV data from Stripe with PHP
– jonathanpurvis.co.uk - submitted by Jon Purvis
Inspired by a Tweet from Christoph Rumpel asking for best practises for importing huge CSV files, I did a write up about how I've imported (so far) 1.7 billion rows of CSV data from Stripe using their API.
Read more [jonathanpurvis.co.uk]
Unorthodox Monoliths in Laravel
– medium.com - submitted by Mazen Touati
Tackling scalability challenges unorthodoxly in large monoliths with strategies like multi-application infrastructure, circuit fuse, and hybrid DB optimization.
Read more [medium.com]
Supercharging Rate Limiting with Cloudflare
By implementing rate limiting at the edge, “dead requests” can be reduced.
Read more [james.brooks.page]
Introducing Rich Text Laravel: A package to integrate Trix into Laravel applications
– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
This article covers installing Rich Text Laravel and Trix in a Laravel app, adding rich text attributes to models, migrating existing content from plain text, and integrating Trix’s file attachment feature with Laravel.
Read more [tighten.com]
Easier endpoint tests with Policy::fake
This make testing endpoint authorization much simpler.
Read more [nolanphillips.substack.com]
Stop Using Pseudo-Types
Pseudo-types like callable and iterable may seem convenient at first glance, but they introduce ambiguities and make code harder to analyze.
Read more [f2r.github.io]
PHP version stats, January 2025 edition
Brent is back with an update of the PHP version stats.
Read more [stitcher.io]
