PHP Core Roundup #4
Here's an update on what the PHP core contributors have been doing these past few weeks.
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How do database indexes work?
This post will walk through how database indexes work, with a particular focus on MySQL, everyone’s (well, many people’s) favorite homegrown organic database.
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Why working code is not enough? Write Better Laravel, Part 2
– arunas.dev - submitted by Arunas
You'll learn the difference between "tactical" and "strategic" programming, and why choosing the right approach is important in the long run.
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Writing open source source software
A nice lighting talk given by my colleague Seb at the first edition of Full Stack Europe.
Efficient Pagination Using Deferred Joins
I wonder if Laravel should use this technique by default. It seems to have a major positive impact on performance.
Read more [aaronfrancis.com]
Can PHPStan find Dead Public Methods?
Thomas Votruba explains how you can go about this.
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Holograms, light-leaks and how to build CSS-only shaders.
Pretty cool what you can do with CSS nowadays
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Writing one sentence per line
– sive.rs
A nice writing tip by Derek Sivers
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A Lot Less Node with Airdrop
Airdrop determines when you can skip building static assets, saving a LOT of time and server resources in continuous integration and deployment.
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Invokable custom validation rules in Laravel
Povilas demonstrates a nice little features that was recently added to Laravel.
Making sure routes, config and events of your Laravel app are cached in production original
A typical Laravel application will likely have many routes, config files and possibly some events. In your development environment, these routes and config files will be loaded and registered in each request. The performance penalty for this is not too big. In a production environment, you want to…
Statements Vs. Expressions in JavaScript
In this blog post, Josh Comeau shares some of the epiphanies he's had about this distinction, and how you can use this information in day-to-day work.
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How to install PHP 8.2 RC on Mac
PHP 8.2 is scheduled to be released on the 24th of Nov, 2022. Of course, meanwhile, you may test the new features, syntax changes, and other improvements in your local environment.
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Things You Should Know About Databases
Let's explain the two most important topics when working with RDBMSs: indexes and transactions.
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What is complexity? Write Better Laravel, Part 1
– arunas.dev - submitted by Arunas
Before we learn strategies for better software design, we must understand our enemy - complexity. Let’s define complexity, how to spot it, and what causes it.
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New composer audit Command and security audits in Composer 2.4
Composer 2.4 features scanning the installed and new packages for known security vulnerabilities. When a new package is installed, or an existing package is updated, Composer looks up the package version numbers on known security vulnerability announcements, and reports if there are any known vulnerabilities in the list of packages.
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Introducing our new Laravel Options package original
When developing web applications, you probably encounter a lot of places where someone needs to select one or more options in a select or multi-select. These select boxes always need a list of options with labels and values.
In one of our projects, we had options being generated in lots of places. Sometimes these lists of options were the same, leading to a lot of code duplication. Even worse, in some cases, different formats were used to output the same options.
That's why we've created a new package called spatie/laravel-options. It will take a resource which can create options such as an enum, a list of models or even a plain array. And will always create a standardized array of options you can use within your frontend application.
Why DRY is the most over-rated programming principle
DRY is just like every other principle out there - it has its place, but it's best taken in moderation.
Read more [gordonc.bearblog.dev]
Auto-Refresh Livewire Components While Keeping States With Vite
Let's check out how we can improve working with Livewire and Vite together, by using the Vite Livewire Plugin by Fabio Ivona.
Read more [christoph-rumpel.com]
