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

New UUID formats

Jun 16th 2022 – www.ietf.org

There are a couple of nice ideas there to solve longstanding problems with UUIDs

What’s the best lossless image format?

Jun 15th 2022 – siipo.la - submitted by Peter

What’s the best lossless image format? Comparing PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL

What's new in Tailwind 3.1

Jun 9th 2022

Adam shows the cool new stuff!

Restructuring a Laravel Controller using Services, Events, Jobs, Actions, and more

Jun 1st 2022 – laravel-news.com

Laravel gives you the flexibility to choose the structure of controllers yourself, which is both a blessing and a curse. You won't find any recommendations in the official Laravel docs, so let's try to discuss various options, based on one specific example.

Use Laravel's HTTP Client with Facebook's Business SDK

May 31st 2022 – stefanzweifel.io - submitted by Stefan Zweifel

Ever needed to work with an SDK and wished you could use Http::fake() in your Laravel tests? This blog post explains how you can achieve this for the Facebook Business SDK using the Adapter pattern.

Using login links in a Laravel app original

May 30th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has launched a new package called spatie/laravel-login-link.

In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

35 Laravel Eloquent tips

May 26th 2022 – martinjoo.dev

Martin Joo shares some cool things you can do with Laravel's ORM.

A package to add comments to your Laravel app original

May 25th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 10 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new premium package called Laravel Comments. Using this package, you can set up a comments section in your Laravel app in no time.

We've made a nice, errr I mean epic launch movie to get you in the right mood.

Laravel Comments includes a Livewire component to render comments. Here's what it looks like:

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Of course, we wrote extensive documentation, covering every aspect of Laravel Comments.

It comes with batteries included:

comments can be nested
emoji reactions
notifications to all participants when a new comment is posted
an inline approval flow for new comments
markdown editing and code highlighting
endlessly customisable

In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.

Using Request Factories for Gorgeous Feature Tests

May 25th 2022 – downing.tech

A cool new package made by Luke Downing

Creating Dynamic HTML Tooltips with Alpine and alpine-tooltip

May 24th 2022 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

After integrating Tippy into a few projects with Alpine.js, I decided to write my own plugin to make the integration easier and the API a little nicer (x-tooltip and $tooltip).

A package to create Livewire powered wizards in no time original

May 23rd 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called laravel-livewire-wizard. Using this package, you can set up multi-step wizards quickly using Livewire.

The package is headless, which means that it provides no UI itself, but it makes it easy to build any UI you desire.

You can easily control which step is displayed, access state of other steps, and build any navigation you desire.

I'd like to introduce the package to you in this blog post.

Creating your own color system with Tailwind

May 23rd 2022 – ohdear.app

In this post, Oh Dear's front end developer Nick goes into more detail on why and how he implemented a tailwind-like color system that will be used in the upcoming redesign.

How to add a spotlight-like search field to your Laravel app original

May 19th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 6 minute read

As developers, we tend to like shortcuts to speed up our workflow. One of the tools I'm using to speed up doing stuff on my Mac is Raycast. It offers a lovely command palette that allows opening apps and URLs, working with clipboard history, and much more.

Wouldn't it be nice to also add such a command palette to a Laravel app? This way, power users of your app can get around quickly and perform small tasks without having to click around.

The good news is that there's already a package to add such a thing: Spotlight by Philo Hermans. In this blog post, I'd like to show how we use this fantastic package at Oh Dear.

How to send e-mails in Laravel with Tailwind CSS

May 19th 2022 – ralphjsmit.com - submitted by Ralph J. Smit

In this tutorial I'll show you how to send e-mails from Laravel with Tailwind CSS. I'll learn you how to set this up and how to inline all the Tailwind CSS-classes.

The Gambler's Ruin, Illustrated with PHP

May 18th 2022 – laracasts.com

Jeffrey Way of Laracasts demonstrates what the Gambler's Ruin is using PHP.

Extensible Blade Components

May 17th 2022 – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

In this post, Marcus explains the fundamentals of Blade components. A great introduction or review, this post walks you through the process of creating an extensible button component that contains the code common between button types, with additional interactivity powered by Alpine.

Laravels Command Bus

May 17th 2022 – www.juststeveking.uk - submitted by Steve McDougall

In Laravel 5.1 the Command Bus was replaced with Dispatchable Jobs, we can still use them but let us also look at how to add a Command Bus.

Bringing page transitions to the web

May 16th 2022

Here's a cool feature the Chrome team is working on. It's already available in Canary.

Adapter Pattern in PHP

May 16th 2022 – www.juststeveking.uk - submitted by Steve McDougall

Of all of the design patterns you could use in your code, the adapter pattern is one of my all time favourites. It allows you to abstract the implementation to an adapter that implements an interface. so you can switch implementation simply by switching the adapter.

Testing API responses in pestPHP

May 11th 2022 – www.juststeveking.uk - submitted by Steve McDougall

I get asked about API response testing a lot, how should you do it, and where to start. I have a general rule when it comes to testing APIs, and that rule is: "test your code, and your code only". What do I mean by this? Let me explain: