Building social images with Browsershot and AWS
Creating social images for your website is super simple using Browsershot and AWS Lambda.
Read more [yoeri.me]
Using the `Attachable` interface to attach any kind of object to a mail in a Laravel app original
Laravel 9 has gained a excellent new way to attach files in mails. Using the Attachable interface, you can specify what should happen when an object gets used as an attachment.
Using our media library package you can easily associate any file with an Eloquent model. We've added support for Laravel's Attachable in the latest version of the package.
In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
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Highlighting code using Sidecar & Shiki
– rias.be
Shiki is a beautiful syntax highlighter powered by the same language engine that many code editors use. We've just released a package that allows you to run Shiki on AWS Lambda through Sidecar.
Read more [rias.be]
Ten Tips to Make Conference Talks Suck Less
These tips are also useful for any kind of presentation, whether on a conference, or an internal presentation for your company.
Read more [www.morling.dev]
Good developer experience examples
A nice list of things to keep in mind when writing software or documentation.
Read more [leerob.io]
A Laravel package to onboard your users
– rias.be
Onboarding your users is one of the most important things you can do in your SaaS or application. After all, first impressions matter! Caleb Porzio has created an onboard package for Laravel which we (at Spatie) recently took over development and maintenance on.
Read more [rias.be]
Add Interfaces to Laravel to Increase Code Readability and Verbosity
Personally I don't know if this is a good practice, but you (and future me) might like it.
Read more [www.aaronsaray.com]
Upgrading to native PHP enums
Tomas Votruba explains how you can refactor old enum classes (from Spatie and MyCLabs) to native PHP enums
Read more [tomasvotruba.com]
How to use Stripe CLI with Laravel Valet to listen for events
– ralphjsmit.com - submitted by Ralph J. Smit
Use the Stripe CLI with Laravel Valet to listen to webhooks locally.
Read more [ralphjsmit.com]
Adding a Laravel backend to a Remix App
Dave Calnan has been using Remix in production for about 6 months now and has decided to add a Laravel backend to the stack. Here's what he's learned from the process.
Read more [davecalnan.blog]
Variadic arguments in PHP
A good overview what you can do with variadic arguments...
Read more [www.exakat.io]
New UUID formats
There are a couple of nice ideas there to solve longstanding problems with UUIDs
Read more [www.ietf.org]
What’s the best lossless image format?
– siipo.la - submitted by Peter
What’s the best lossless image format? Comparing PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL
Read more [siipo.la]
What's new in Tailwind 3.1
Adam shows the cool new stuff!
Restructuring a Laravel Controller using Services, Events, Jobs, Actions, and more
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.
Read more [laravel-news.com]
Use Laravel's HTTP Client with Facebook's Business SDK
– 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.
Read more [stefanzweifel.io]
Using login links in a Laravel app original
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
Martin Joo shares some cool things you can do with Laravel's ORM.
Read more [martinjoo.dev]
A package to add comments to your Laravel app original
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:
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
A cool new package made by Luke Downing
Read more [downing.tech]
