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Small Wins

Link – – davidhemphill.com

Some words of wisdom by David Hemphill

Don't be upset you didn't finish the big feature early in the week. Be glad you figured out what you need to do to finish it in the next few days.

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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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Watch the Flare reveal live

Original – by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

These past eight months Marcel Pociot, me and our teams at Beyond Code and Spatie have been working on a secret project called Flare. We believe that Flare is going to change the way you work with Laravel. To be kept in the loop subscribe to our mailinglist.

We are going to launch it this Friday at Laracon EU at 16.30 local time (15:30 CET). The Laravel News YouTube channel will live stream the launch. You can watch the stream right below.

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Multiple forms with same input names on one page

Link – – stefanbauer.me

Stefan Bauer explains how to handle error message when you have multiple forms on one page

Here's another tip! Even if it's documented here I just wanted to show it. Here's the deal: Imagine you have multiple forms one page. For example one contact form and another newsletter signup form. Both of them might have an email field. So who do you know which email field doesn't validate and throws an error?

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Supercharging common controllers

Original – by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

From time to time our team needs to create fairly complicated CRUD interfaces from scratch. While this isn't rocket science, there surprisingly aren't that many good resource out there on how to do this. That's why our team dove in and published a couple of packages that can help create modern CRUD…

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Automatically detect broken links after a deploy

Link – – ohdear.app

You can use the Oh Dear! API to automatically perform health checks on your app after a deploy.

You can use our API to trigger an on demand run of both the uptime check and the broken links checker. If you add this to, say, your deploy script, you can have near-instant validation that your deploy succeeded and didn't break any links & pages.

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JAMstack as a beginner

Link – – dev.to

I hear more and more people talking about JAMstack. Here's a good post that explains what it is.

JAMstack is am excellent way to build fast, secure and static websites. (keep in mind, not every JAMstack website has every element of the JAM - the core feature that they all have in common is that they are serverless)

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Lazy collections in Laravel

Link – – github.com

Unsung Laravel hero Joseph Silber opened up a very interesting PR to Laravel. Let's hope this one gets accepted.

Whereas the existing Collection class wraps a native array, the new LazyCollection class wraps a native iterator, while still providing most of the methods that we know and love from a regular collection.

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4 Ways The Laravel Service Container Helps Us Managing Our Dependencies

Link – – christoph-rumpel.com

Christoph Rumpel wrote a clear post on how you can use Laravel's service container.

The service container is a quite complex topic, and I see many struggling to understand what it does. It was the same for me, and the main reason is that many explanations concentrate on "how" to use the container. With this article, I want to give you my introduction to this topic by focusing on the "why" and "when" the container can help us with our dependencies.

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10 rules to code like NASA (applied to interpreted languages)

Link – – dev.to

Here a some great tips on how to write robust software.

NASA's JPL, which is responsible for some of the most awesomest science out there, is quite famous for its Power of 10 rules (see original paper). Indeed, if you are going to send a robot on Mars with a 40 minutes ping and no physical access to it then you pretty damn well should make sure that your code doesn't have bugs.

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Laravel and Murphy’s Law

Link – – medium.com

Patrick Brouwers, the creator of Laravel Excel, explains how to handle failing jobs in Laravel

When designing software, don’t only think about the happy path. Write down (preferably with (unit) tests) what all the things are that could go wrong. Then design your solution to be able to recover those situations. (Wether or not automatic.) There isn’t a single solution to rule them all, some processes might need to have specific failure handling while others are fine with the default approach.

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Some Shifty Bits

Link – – jasonmccreary.me

Laravel Shift creator JMac did a write up of the talk he gave at this year's Laracon US

I received a lot of valuable feedback from these talks. So I combined them by using analytics from Shift to identify underutilized features of Laravel and demonstrate them with code.

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