Using Ray inside your Blade views
– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
Read more [myray.app]
Benefits of writing clean, maintainable code.
– jump24.co.uk - submitted by jamie peters
We all strive to write good code when we jump onto a project but sometimes do you wonder why?
The post covers
- Why you should write clean code
- Techniques for writing cleaner code
The techniques here are useful for all level of developers and worth a quick skim over as we all nothing wrong with a quick refresher
Read more [jump24.co.uk]
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State of Generics and Collections
Generics have been on the list of wanted features for a long time by numerous PHP developers. This article explores the different approaches, and what their current state is.
Read more [thephp.foundation]
PHP 8.4 Property Hooks
– ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen
Read about the upcoming "property hooks" feature that will be added in PHP 8.4.
Read more [ashallendesign.co.uk]
New Array Functions in PHP 8.4
– ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen
Read about how to use PHP 8.4's new "array_find", "array_find_key", "array_all", and "array_any" functions. The article also shows you the Laravel equivalents so you can achieve the same goal now.
Read more [ashallendesign.co.uk]
From MySQL to Typesense: Blazing-Fast Full-Text Search in Laravel
– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
Learn how to add full-text search into your Laravel apps. From simple LIKE queries to MySQL full-text indexes, and landing on Laravel Scout powered by @typesense.
Read more [tighten.com]
A case for Mastodon
Chris Morell has seen a bunch of pushback against Mastodon as an option, so he takes the time to address some of the issues that folks have put out there.
Read more [cmorrell.com]
Build and Cache Frontend Assets once using GitHub Actions
Learn how to use GitHub Actions to speed up your Deployer deployments by cleverly caching your frontend build assets
Read more [stefanzweifel.dev]
Plain Vanilla Websites
This is an overview of the major techniques used to make web sites and web applications without making use of build tools or frameworks, with just an editor, a browser, and web standards.
Read more [plainvanillaweb.com]
Geography in Laravel: retrieving geographical data
– gummibeer.dev - submitted by Tom Witkowski
How to retrieve any geographical data from OpenStreetMap and transform them into usable PHP objects.
Read more [gummibeer.dev]
Data Fetching Patterns in Single-Page Applications
When a single-page application needs to fetch data from a remote source, it needs to do so while remaining responsive and providing feedback to the user during an often slow query. Five patterns help with this
Read more [martinfowler.com]
Participate in the State Of Laravel Survey
Tobias is organising another edition of his survey. If you're into Laravel, I highly encourage to participate.
Read more [stateoflaravel.com]
Testing Saloon API Integrations in Laravel
– ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen
Learn how to fake and record HTTP responses so you can test your Saloon API integration in your Laravel applications.
Read more [ashallendesign.co.uk]
How to test all routes in your Laravel app by writing just a single Pest test original
We’ve released a new package called spatie/pest-plugin-route-testing. This package can test all common routes in your Laravel app by writing a single test.
In this blog post, I’d like to tell you all about it.
A package to use Filepond in your Livewire component original
We’ve published a new package called livewire-filepond, which contains a component to easily upload files.
Under the hood, Filepond, a powerful JavaScript library to upload files, is used.
Livewire Strict: Enforce additional security measures to Livewire
– wire-elements.dev - submitted by Philo
Livewire Strict helps enforce security measures and prevents you from having unprotected sensitive public properties.
Read more [wire-elements.dev]
Sending transactional emails using Mailcoach API in an Express.js application
– mailcoach.app - submitted by Spatie
Read more [mailcoach.app]
Using whereAny() for cleaner queries in Eloquent
– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, we're taking a look at whereAny(), which was released with Laravel 10.47. A very elegant way of grabbing data based on a conditional "any of the following columns".
Read more [youtu.be]
A package to display solutions on the Laravel error page original
When Laravel switched to a simpler exception page, the ability to display solutions for an exception was lost.
Our latest package, called spatie/laravel-error-solutions brings back that powerful feature. When installed, it will display solutions for most common exceptions.
Here’s how that looks it:
And yes, some solutions, like the one in the screenshot above, can be executed on the exception page too.
In this blog post, I’d like to tell you all about it!
A Guide to PHP Attributes
– ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen
Learn about what PHP attributes are and how to use them. We'll also look at how to create your own PHP attributes.
Read more [ashallendesign.co.uk]
