Our team releases a lot of open source packages. All of our packages are well documented. For the smaller packages, we use a simple readme on GitHub. The bigger packages, like medialibrary and event projector get documented on our documentation site. We recently moved our site from a Digital Ocean…
Link – – timacdonald.me
Tim MacDonald, a freelance software developer based in Sydney, investigates how to make Laravel tests run faster. Turns out you a lot can be gained by caching the config.
I saw a conversation on Twitter the other day discussing how Laravel was slowing down a test suite. I decided I wanted to dig into this and see if there was anything to it.
Read more [timacdonald.me]
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Every two weeks I send out a newsletter containing lots of interesting stuff for the modern PHP developer.
Expect quick tips & tricks, interesting tutorials, opinions and packages. Because I work with Laravel every day there is an emphasis on that framework.
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A nice little tip to clean up your code base from boolean flags (is_active, is_deleted, is_subscribed) is to switch to nullable timestamps instead.
— Marcel Pociot 🎆 (@marcelpociot) July 2, 2019
You remain the same flag functionality, but get the point of time for free. pic.twitter.com/86iHt6ow0X
Tweet – – twitter.com
🔑 The fundamental key to understanding Eloquent. pic.twitter.com/WkaKIFaeOR
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) July 1, 2019
Link – – simonkollross.de
Simon Kollross explains how to use our laravel-backup package to create an encrypted backup of your Laravel based app.
You should always encrypt backups of your apps and securely transfer them to one or multiple backup destinations. If you encrypt the backups on your server and transfer only the encrypted version, your backups are stored encrypted at rest in your backup destination. Not even your backup storage provider is able to read them.
Read more [simonkollross.de]
Recently Jeffrey Way published a video titled "Frontend Authorization Brainstorming" on Laracasts. In that video, he shows three ways of passing authorization results to the front-end.
Currently I'm working on a big project that uses Inertia, React and TypeScript. In this blog post, I won't cover those things in detail, but I'd like to show you have we, using those technologies, pass authorization (and routes) to the front-end.
Link – – m.signalvnoise.com
A nice insight by Basecamp engineer Jonas Downey.
Whatever ownership you have over an individual contribution is immediately forfeited the moment you commit the code. At that moment, the work becomes part of the ever-evolving organism that comprises a software system.
Read more [m.signalvnoise.com]
Link – – blog.packagist.com
Jordi Boggiano published a new round up of stats.
The push towards PHP 7.1 and 7.2 happened even faster than in the previous six months. The most required PHP version is still one that is still maintained which is also pretty good news!
Read more [blog.packagist.com]
Link – – sebastiandedeyne.com
In a new blogpost, my colleague Seb explains why you should and how you can use useEffect.
React recently introduced a new way to deal with side effects: the
useEffecthook. Translating lifecycle methods touseEffectcalls can be confusing at first. It’s confusing because we shouldn’t be translating imperative lifecycle methods to declarative useEffect calls in the first place.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Link – – liamhammett.com
Liam Hammett created a cool package to easily create Blade Helpers in Laravel.
I put together a package that attempts to help make these helper functions that little bit easier to define without the boilerplate of returning the string or having to consider what an expression may be when creating a Blade directive.
Read more [liamhammett.com]
At the PHP Russia conference, Nikita Popov presented all the nice changes coming to PHP 7.4.
Link – – dev.to
Daniel Elkington comments on the reactions to an important RFC that adds function-based components to Vue.
Today I was amazed to see the usually positive and friendly VueJS community descend into a bitter war. Two weeks ago Vue creator Evan You released a Request for Comment (RFC) for a new function-based way of writing Vue components in the upcoming Vue 3.0. Today a critical Reddit thread followed by similarly critical comments in a Hacker News thread caused a flood of developers to flock to the original RFC to voice their outrage, some of which were borderline abusive
Read more [dev.to]
Link – – medium.com
Liam Hammet wrote a good blogpost on the isset language construct.
Let’s take a look through how isset behaves and what’s so special about it. Even if you’re a veteran PHP developer, hopefully, you’ll pick up something new here.
Read more [medium.com]
A webhook is a mechanism where an application can notify an other application that something has happened. Technically, the application sends an HTTP request to that other application. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce you to two packages that we recently released. The first is laravel-webhook-server, which allows you to send webhook requests. The second one is laravel-webhook-client, which makes it easy to receive those webhook request.
An amazing video on the fate of our universe.
To me, this overhead view of time gives a profound perspective - that we are living inside the hot flash of the Big Bang, the perfect moment to soak in the sights and sounds of a universe in its glory days, before it all fades away. Although the end will eventually come, we have a practical infinity of time to play with if we play our cards right. The future may look bleak, but we have enormous potential as a species.
Link – – stitcher.io
Brent wrote another nice post on PHP. This time on the upcoming typed hints feature of PHP 7.4.
Typed class properties were added in PHP 7.4 and provide a major improvement to PHP's type system. These changes are fully opt-in and backwards compatible. In this post we'll look at the feature in-depth.
Read more [stitcher.io]
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In the project that @freekmurze and I are working on, I needed the ability to replicate an existing Eloquent model into a different Eloquent model.
— Marcel Pociot 🎆 (@marcelpociot) June 12, 2019
If you feel like this could be useful for you as well, here's the little trait for that:https://t.co/IXFpAsxE35 pic.twitter.com/fCccKmLdQs
Imagine you're building that your app can notify your user, but you don't want to send more than one notification in a timeframe of five seconds. How are you going to test the time aspect? Do you have to create a test that takes five minutes?
Link – – bitsofco.de
Ire Aderinokun, Front-End Developer and User Interface Designer, explains how you can Lighthouse in CI.
Until recently, I also hadn't setup an official performance budget and enforced it. This isn’t to say that I never did performance audits. I frequently use tools like PageSpeed Insights and take the feedback to make improvements. But what I had never done was set a list of metrics that I needed the site to meet, and enforce them using some automated tool.
Read more [bitsofco.de]
