A preview of Flare's upcoming redesign
My colleagues and I are hard at work making the best error tracker for Laravel even better.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Fixing nested validation in Laravel
My colleague Ruben explains some improvements that were made in the latest version of our popular Laravel Data package
Read more [flareapp.io]
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Ray can now display the values of private properties original
Our handy Ray debugging app gained a cool new trick: it can now display the values of private properties and results of private methods.
Strategies for making Laravel packages customizable original
While attending Laracon India, many people approached me to ask how we handle the maintenance of all our Spatie packages. One of the ways we keep maintenance burden low is by making our packages customizable. In this blog post, I'd like to cover some of our best tips to make a Laravel package easy…
Returning native types from the Laravel Request class
– jamie-peters.co.uk - submitted by Jamie Peters
Have you ever been using the Laravel Request class and found yourself creating single use variables just for type casting? What if I told you there's a better way...
Read more [jamie-peters.co.uk]
Improve load time performance by lazily loading background images
– www.conroyp.com - submitted by Paul Conroy
Background images are key to a lot of compelling site designs, but can cause performance issues as they can't take advantage of native lazy loading. How can we get the benefit of using background images, but in a performant way?
Read more [www.conroyp.com]
Casual Artisan Call February 2023 original
Christoph and I did another casual artisan call do talk about what's been keeping us busy.
Kill Switches: Interrupting Long-Running Processes
– 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.
Read more [tighten.com]
An update on the upcoming Livewire v3
Caleb shared a few thoughts around the release of v3.
Read more [github.com]
Log all notifications sent by your Laravel app original
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
– 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.
Read more [stefrouschop.nl]
Extending Laravel's about command
You can easily add new information to Laravel's new "About" command
Read more [james.brooks.page]
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
A good intro on how to customize PHPUnit
Read more [localheinz.com]
Request Level Validation
– 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.
Read more [tighten.com]
How to secure model ID’s in Livewire and why this is important
– 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.
Read more [stefrouschop.nl]
Using Laravel Sanctum to create dynamic abilities original
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
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.
Read more [mailcoach.app]
Disabling Composer's script process timeout
– 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.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Local Environment Seeders in Laravel
This makes not just testing the UI of an app easier, but also makes onboarding new developers to a project simpler.
Read more [stefanzweifel.dev]
