It's never just that simple
Link – – www.neverjust.net
When you say "just," you're skipping over all the invisible complexity.
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Oh Dear is the all-in-one monitoring tool for your entire website. We monitor uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, scheduled tasks and more. You'll get a notifications for us when something's wrong. All that paired with a developer friendly API and kick-ass documentation. O, and you'll also be able to create a public status page under a minute. Start monitoring using our free trial now.
Do not call toArray() to get all items from a Laravel Collection
Link – – spatie.be
Something that you’ll need to often is casting the collection back to a regular array. Like me, you might be tempted to use toArray() for this. But that might be the wrong method to call.
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PHP Benchmarks: 8.4 performance is steady compared to 8.3 and 8.2
Link – – tideways.com
Tests performed by Tideways show that, in general, the performance between 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 does not move much for a Laravel, Symfony and WordPress demo application.
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Simplifying work with custom stubs in Laravel
Link – – blog.genijaho.dev - submitted by Geni Jaho
Stubs are fake implementations of interfaces or classes that simulate the behavior of real services.
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Impostor Syndrome – Maybe I’m Not Good Enough?
Link – – www.moisis.dev - submitted by Moisis Hadjiagathangelou
After more than 9 years working with Laravel—leading a dev team and architecting solutions—I still sometimes feel like I’m not doing enough.
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Real-world uses of TypeScript’s utility types
Link – – piccalil.li
Utility types are types that modify other types. You can think of them as functions, but they operate on types instead of values.
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Five levels of handling images in Laravel
Link – – spatie.be
We'll cover resizing, image optimization, and UI enhancements and show how Spatie's packages and products can make the whole process easier, more efficient, and even a bit fun.
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What nobody tells developers about documentation
Link – – newsletter.posthog.com
Users don’t know what your product does, how to use it, or why they would use it. You need docs to explain this.
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A package to handle passkeys in Laravel
Original – – spatie.be
I’m proud to announce that we’ve released a new package called spatie/laravel-passkeys that makes adding passkeys to a Laravel app as easy as it can be.
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Introducing PHP Operators
Link – – php-operators.com
Here's a fun little sideproject from my colleague Seb. This web app is built with Laravel, Alpine.js, and Tailwind CSS. Content is stored in Markdown files and loaded with our sheets package.
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Livewire and Inertia: how we love and use both at Spatie
Link – – spatie.be
If you held an individual Spatie employee at gunpoint (please don't) and forced them to pick a favorite, you'll get a 50/50 split. But when we look at the choice at hand as a team, it becomes easier to determine the right fit.
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Settling the File Structure Debate
Link – – muhammedsari.me - submitted by Muhammed Sari
Group by type or context / process? One of these methods will crush your project's growth. Find out which!
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Unorthodox decoration
Link – – muhammedsari.me - submitted by Muhammed Sari
Everyone knows the classic decorator pattern—but have you met its duck-typed cousin? Discover how to extend Laravel behavior without interfaces, the clever way.
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Think of an Elephpant -
Link – – liamhammett.com - submitted by Liam Hammett
Find out how we can champion PHP as a community and help bring it to the attention of more developers
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Type Preferences
Link – – liamduckett.com - submitted by Liam
A short post about my preferences around type safety and static analysis.
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Laravel Observers vs Event Listeners: What’s the Difference?
Link – – bert.gent - submitted by Bert De Swaef
If you’ve been working with Laravel for a little while, you’ve probably come across observers and event listeners. But what is the difference?
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DevOps With Laravel: Queues and Workers in Production
Link – – martinjoo.dev
Marin Joo covers configuring Supervisor to manage worker processes, including defining commands, scaling, and logging. He also explores using multiple queues and prioritizing them to optimize worker usage.
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Optimize Bulk Insertions with Laravel's New fillAndInsert() Method
Link – – www.harrisrafto.eu
Laravel’s new fillAndInsert() method enables bulk insertions while applying model casting, timestamps, and UUID generation.
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Impact, agency, and taste
Link – – www.benkuhn.net
Many of the most effective people I’ve worked with also do the most metacognition, i.e., reflecting on their own (and their team’s) work and thought processes, and figuring out how to improve them.
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Running PHP tests in parallel on GitHub actions
A couple of years ago, Laravel introduced a great feature which allows to run PHPUnit / Pest tests in parallel. This results in a big boost in performance.
By default, it determines the concurrency level by taking a look at the number of CPU cores your machine has. So, if you're using a modern Mac that has 10 CPU cores, it will run 10 tests at the same time, greatly cutting down on the time your testsuite needs to run completely.
A default runner on GitHub doesn't have that many cores, so you can't leverage parallel testing as good as in your typical local environments.
In this blog post, I'd like to show you a way of running your tests on GitHub, by splitting them up in small chunks that can run concurrently.
We use this technique at Oh Dear to cut down the running time of our vast testsuite from 16 minutes to only just 4. In this blog post all examples will come from the Oh Dear code base.