Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Data Transfer Objects
– davorminchorov.com - submitted by Davor Minchorov
Learn about data transfer objects, why they are useful and why it's better to use them over arrays.
Read more [davorminchorov.com]
IPC in Electron
– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
Read more [myray.app]
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Accessing Databases in PhpStorm
– seankegel.com - submitted by Sean Kegel
Powerful Database Features You Didn't Know PhpStorm Had
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Using Ray with your Pest tests
– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
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The magic behind Laravel's new defer() helper
Here's how Laravel's defer() function, which was introduced a few months ago, works behind the scenes.
Read more [www.amitmerchant.com]
Embedding Blade inside of Markdown content
Here's a neat solution by Ryan Chandler
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
Here are some examples of weird timezones
Read more [ssoready.com]
A Case For Custom Collections
– alsterholm.com - submitted by Andreas Alsterholm
A blog post explaining some benefits (and drawbacks) of using custom Eloquent collections.
Read more [alsterholm.com]
Property Hooks Are Coming To PHP 8.4
A nice video demoing a cool new feature coming to PHP 8.4
Read more [www.phparch.com]
Fake it till you make it: testing transactional emails with Mailcoach in Laravel
– www.mailcoach.app - submitted by Spatie
Read more [www.mailcoach.app]
Forge deploy scripts in version control
A nice trick by my colleague Seb
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Store Code Discussions in Git using Git Notes
Git is a gift that keeps on giving
Read more [wouterj.nl]
To double quote or not, that's the question!
– dev.to
Spoiler: it doesn't really matter anymore as long as you're using a modern version of PHP
Read more [dev.to]
Using 1password for Laravel environment variables
Here's how we handle secrets at Flare
Read more [flareapp.io]
CPX - Composer Package Executor
– cpx.dev - submitted by Liam Hammett
Run Composer packages, effortlessly. No need to install tools into your app or as global dependencies.
Read more [cpx.dev]
A Guide to Laravel Pipelines
– ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen
Learn how to use the Pipeline class in Laravel to break complex workflows into smaller, isolated, focused processes. We'll then look at how to test our Laravel pipelines.
Read more [ashallendesign.co.uk]
Optimizing Eloquent: Accessor Caching and Value Objects in Laravel
– www.harrisrafto.eu - submitted by Harris Raftopoulos
Laravel's accessor caching with shouldCache() boosts performance by preventing repetitive computations for expensive accessors. Additionally, you can work with complex data like addresses using value objects, and Laravel will auto-sync changes back to the model. This improves code efficiency and maintainability, especially for structured data.
Read more [www.harrisrafto.eu]
Adding real-time chat in 14 lines of code with Laravel Reverb and Livewire
A nice real-world example on how you can add Reverb to an existing Laravel app
Read more [laradir.com]
Reasons you don't need a modal
This site offers some good alternatives for modals
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Deferring tasks with Laravel's defer() helper
– koomai.net - submitted by Sid
A detailed look at how Laravel's defer() helper works.
Read more [koomai.net]
