My Software Estimation Technique
Link – – jacobian.org
Jacob Kaplan-Moss shares the technique he uses when he needs to develop a project timeline.
Read more [jacobian.org]
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Modern web apps without JavaScript bundling or transpiling
Link – – world.hey.com
We're way overdue a correction back to simplicity for the frontend. ES6/HTTP2/Import maps looks like they'll deliver just that.
Read more [world.hey.com]
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Building a Fancy Tile Grid with Tailwind CSS
Another amazing video by Simon!
How we're using static analysis to improve our codebase
Link – – flareapp.io
A static analyzer helps you to find bugs in your code without even running it. Popular static analyzers for PHP are Psalm and PHPStan. In this post, we're going to look at what such a static analyzer can find in a two-year-old codebase.
Read more [flareapp.io]
The benefits of writing tests
Link – – testing-laravel.com
I've been creating web applications for over 15 years now. It's only in the last five years that I've learned how to test an application automatically. I can safely say that there is no other technique that has improved the quality of my code more.
Let's go over what a test is and all the benefits it provides.
Read more [testing-laravel.com]
How to test middleware in Laravel
In this video, which is part of the Testing Laravel video course, I explain to cool ways to test middleware in Laravel.
In this video, we're using Pest, but you can easily use the techniques in a PHPUnit testsuite as well.
How we use ElasticSearch, Kibana and Filebeat to handle our logs
Link – – flareapp.io
Flare runs on a few different servers that each produce their own logs. In this post, you'll learn how you can combine multiple logs in a single stream.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Don't use Mocking libraries
Link – – peakd.com
Native PHP functionality and having a good design in the first place provide everything you need to avoid a mocking library.
Read more [peakd.com]
Laravel Seeders on Steroids
Link – – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Seeders are a great way of creating fixture data, as well as dummy data, for your development environment. Let me show you how we can make them even better.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Are you a component control freak?
Link – – jjenzz.com
If you're into React, you'll appreciate these patterns for working with uncontrolled components
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Introducing Iterator Functions
Link – – doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
This post exmplains how you can work with iterators and generators as if they were arrays.
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Immutable dates in Laravel
Link – – dyrynda.com.au
Michael Dyrynda explains how you can use immutable dates in Laravel by default.
Read more [dyrynda.com.au]
Git Rebase: a love story
Link – – timacdonald.me
At work, Tim MacDonald decided to show git rebase the love it deserves with a brown bag session. He has record it, so we can enjoy it as well.
Read more [timacdonald.me]
Why Aren't There More Programming Languages Startups?
Link – – www.akitasoftware.com
In this post, Jean Yang focusses on why we don’t see more high-growth startups focused on the kinds of languages and tools coming out of the PLDI community, the “deep tech†side of programming tools.
Read more [www.akitasoftware.com]
Directory Uploads in PHP 8.1
Link – – php.watch
One of the new features in PHP 8.1 is that PHP's $_FILES super global variable now contains the path to the files uploaded by the user.
Read more [php.watch]
New in Git: switch and restore
Link – – www.banterly.net
There's no new functionality, but having these new commands will make Git easier to use.
Read more [www.banterly.net]
Exploring Pest internals
In this stream, Pest creator Nuno Maduro explains how his testing tool works under the hood.
If you want to know how to use Pest (or PHPUnit) to test your application code, consider picking up our Testing Laravel video course.
Migrating our billing portal to the latest version of Laravel Spark
Link – – flareapp.io
How to handle GitHub webhooks in a Laravel application
Whenever something happens in one of your repos on GitHub, you can configure a webhook to be sent to your app. This way, you can perform some extra logic when a particular event occurs on the repo. A silly example would be to send someone a mail when an issue is opened.
We've created a new package called spatie/laravel-github-webhooks that makes it easy to consume GitHub webhooks in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
Announcing our Testing Laravel premium video course
Knowing how to write automated tests is a fundamental skill for any developer. By adding a quality test suite to your application, you'll end up with fewer bugs in production. It allows you to refactor with confidence using a test suite that has your back.
We're currently recording a new premium video course called Testing Laravel. It will be released in September.