Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI

Hooks for Alpine.js

Jun 7th 2023 – github.com - submitted by Ryan Chandler

A collection of handy hooks, inspired by React, for Alpine.js.

Improving Client Side Pagination with Livewire

Jun 2nd 2023 – fly.io - submitted by Kathryn Anne Tan

In this article we remove the need to get entire datasets in order to make Client Side Pagination work. Instead, we get the dataset in lighter, less heavier parts!

Let's build a ChatGPT Plugin with Laravel

May 30th 2023 – barreto.jp - submitted by Juan Pablo

Tutorial on building your first ChatGPT plugin with Laravel step by step.

A Laravel package to quickly see which HTML is rendered by which Blade view original

May 30th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 6 minute read

I'm happy to share that we have released our latest package, spatie/laravel-blade-comments.

This package can add comments to your rendered HTML output. For each Blade view that was used to build up the response, it adds start and ending comments.

Generating Large ZIP Exports From Files in S3

May 30th 2023 – chriswhite.is - submitted by Chris White

I'll show you how to generate a ZIP export of an arbitrary numbers of files in an S3 bucket in a fast and memory efficient way, so you don't go OOM.

Explaining the code on the "Go with PHP" website

May 16th 2023 – themsaid.com

Mohamed write a nice post featuring a lot of good tips on how to make your code readable.

Encapsulating Polymorphism

May 15th 2023 – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

In this post, Andrew presents several patterns in polymorphic database relationships in Laravel that allow us to eliminate conditionals.

Introducing DropBlockEditor

May 15th 2023 – vanrossum.dev - submitted by Jeffrey van Rossum

DropBlockEditor, a drag and drop editor made with Livewire, is now available in pre release. This article tells you more about it and gives you an idea of how you could use it.

Publishing Prometheus metrics in Laravel apps

May 11th 2023 – fly.io - submitted by Chris Fidao

You can instrument your Laravel apps by having it publish Prometheus metrics. With the help of Prometheus, you can use Grafana to create dashboards and alerts to monitor your apps.

Packagist.org maintainer account takeover

May 3rd 2023 – blog.packagist.com

Scary stuff, but handled very well by the Packagist team.

Laravel Worldwide Meetup: Introducing Laravel Splade - Quick Wins in Laravel original

May 3rd 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Here's the recording of the Laravel Worldwide Meetup which was held last week.

"Contact app" a Laravel for Beginners course

May 3rd 2023 – www.youtube.com - submitted by Bert De Swaef

The entire playlist of our Laravel for Beginners course. You'll learn about model, controllers, factories, seeders, relations and many more.

Advanced Git Magic

May 2nd 2023

Here's the recording of a cool talk by Pauline Vos given at Full Stack Europe 2022. In this talk she shares a couple of cool things you can do with Git.

Together with my buddies Dries and Rias, I'm already organising the next edition of Full Stack Europe, which will be held in October 2023 in Antwerp, Belgium. You can get your early bird tickets on our website.

Invoice PDF Generation With Browsershot

May 2nd 2023 – fly.io - submitted by Johannes Werbrouck

Invoicing is boring and manually writing up invoices even more so, that's why you should automate the entire process in your app. Here, I show you how to use Spatie’s wonderful Browsershot package to do just that.

Saying goodbye to WIP commit messages original

Apr 30th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

There are two kinds of developers: those that write commit messages and value a repo's history and those that don't. I'm in the latter camp: most of my commit messages just read "WIP", much to the chagrin of some of my colleagues. I've tried to change my ways, but I just can't get into the habit of writing good commit messages.

But now I have a solution: I use the power of AI to write my commit messages for me. In this blog post, I'll show you how I did it.

Freek.dev