Casual Artisan Call February 2023
Christoph and I did another casual artisan call do talk about what's been keeping us busy.
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Kill Switches: Interrupting Long-Running Processes
Link – – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
Have you ever heard of a “kill switch”—a device meant to disable machinery if its owner is incapacitated? Turns out you can also build kill switches into your code. Tony shares four kill switch examples for Laravel applications.
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An update on the upcoming Livewire v3
Link – – github.com
Caleb shared a few thoughts around the release of v3.
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Log all notifications sent by your Laravel app
We've released a new package called Laravel Notification Log. True to its name, it will log when your Laravel app sends notifications. It also contains helpful methods to determine when notifications were sent.
When to use Laravel global scopes
Link – – stefrouschop.nl - submitted by Stef Rouschop
With a proper implementation of global scopes instead of local scopes, the code and security would be greatly improved. Let me illustrate this with a simple example.
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Extending Laravel's about command
Link – – james.brooks.page
You can easily add new information to Laravel's new "About" command
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Rust: A Language for the Next 40 Years
Learn what makes the programming language Rust a unique technology, such as the memory safety guarantees that enable more people to write performant systems-level code.
Extending PHPUnit with its new event system
Link – – localheinz.com
A good intro on how to customize PHPUnit
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Request Level Validation
Link – – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
Did you know it's possible to use Laravel's validation tools even when you're validating a part of your request that wasn't provided by the user? In our latest post, Andrew Morgan shares four approaches to validating the "other" bits of your requests.
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How to secure model ID’s in Livewire and why this is important
Link – – stefrouschop.nl - submitted by Stef Rouschop
One caveat in Livewire (version 1 and 2) is that only public properties remain state between Livewire interactions. This shouldn’t be a problem, at least not if you’re aware of how a potential hacker would abuse this.
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Using Laravel Sanctum to create dynamic abilities
In Oh Dear, we recently added the ability to create fine-grained API tokens that are scoped by a model. Behind the scenes, it uses Laravel Sanctum to create and verify abilities.
In this blog post, I'd like to give you a peek behind the scenes and show how we set this up.
Creating an onboarding email drip campaign using Mailcoach
Original – – mailcoach.app
One way to teach your audience the features you offer is by creating a drip campaign about all the features your platform offers. Better knowledge of all features hopefully leads to better conversion rates.
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Disabling Composer's script process timeout
Link – – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
A quick way of disabling Composer's default script process timeout of 300 seconds (5 minutes). Easy to overlook in the docs.
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Local Environment Seeders in Laravel
Link – – stefanzweifel.dev
This makes not just testing the UI of an app easier, but also makes onboarding new developers to a project simpler.
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Locality of Behavior
Link – – www.eloquentarchitecture.com - submitted by John Freeman
The LoB principle dictates that the behavior of a unit of code should be as obvious as possible by looking only at that unit of code. But I think something is missing from this discussion.
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You might not need a repository in Laravel: 3 alternatives
Link – – medium.com - submitted by Mazen Touati
We will crack the controversy of the repository pattern in Laravel. The good and the bad, and what alternatives we can use to build a maintainable codebase.
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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome as a Programmer
Link – – baspa.dev - submitted by Bas van Dinther
Learn about imposter syndrome, its causes and how to combat it in the field of programming.
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A package to integrate HelpSpace in your Laravel app
I'm happy to announce that we've released another new package: spatie/laravel-help-space. This one makes it easy to populate a custom sidebar in HelpSpace with the data from your Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
Writing a Static Analyser for PHP in Rust - Overview
Link – – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
A new series on writing a static analyser for PHP in Rust.
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Intro to Terminable Middleware
Link – – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
Tighten programmer Alison shares an intro to terminable middleware in Laravel. This type of middleware does work after the HTTP response is sent to the browser. Learn when to use it, and a some gotchas.
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