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.
Read more [chipperci.com]
Invokable custom validation rules in Laravel
Povilas demonstrates a nice little features that was recently added to Laravel.
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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.
Read more [www.joshwcomeau.com]
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.
Read more [nunomaduro.com]
Things You Should Know About Databases
Let's explain the two most important topics when working with RDBMSs: indexes and transactions.
Read more [architecturenotes.co]
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.
Read more [arunas.dev]
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.
Read more [php.watch]
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]
My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow
Lots of things to be learned in this detailed post by Josh Comeau
Read more [www.joshwcomeau.com]
An Engineer’s Best Tips for Writing Documentation Devs Love
Some good tips for writing effictive, human-friendly documentation.
Read more [thenewstack.io]
Effective immutability with PHPStan
Did you know that DateImmutable isn't really immutable?
Read more [matthiasnoback.nl]
Add comments to SQL queries made by Laravel
We've released a new package called spatie/laravel-sql-commenter. This one can add comments to SQL queries. These comments allow you to easily pinpoint the origin of a query when looking at your query log.
Encrypting Laravel Eloquent models with CipherSweet
– rias.be
We've just released laravel-ciphersweet. This package is a wrapper over CipherSweet, which allows you to easily use it with Laravel's Eloquent models.
Read more [rias.be]
Linked Lists explained in PHP
– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
Linked lists are a linear data structure that provides quick insertion and deletion.
Read more [doeken.org]
Introducing sidecar-browsershot
– stefanzweifel.io - submitted by Stefan Zweifel
A short introduction to sidecar-browsershot package: How it works and for what it can be used for.
Read more [stefanzweifel.io]
Using Laravel Vite to automatically refresh your browser when changing a Blade file original
Yesterday, the Laravel team released the vite-plugin. Going forward, Vite will become the standard build tool for Laravel apps.
One of the cool features of this Vite integration is that you'll get hot reloading by default. Whenever you run Vite with npm dev and modify a JS or CSS file, Vite will automatically recompile the assets and refresh your browser. This way, you won't have to refresh your browser manually after making a change.
Wouldn't it be cool if this automatic refresh would work when we're changing a Blade file?
Making Vite and Valet play nice together original
Yesterday, the Laravel team launched the official vite-plugin. From now on, Vite will be the standard build tool for Laravel. The main benefits are vastly improved build times and a more straightforward API. Want to know more about it? Head over to the official docs. There's also a migration guide to go from Mix to Vite.
When I followed that guide to upgrade the freek.dev codebase from Mix to Vite , npm dev could successfully start-up Vite, but in the browser the JS / CSS did not load. Let's review how I could fix that.
