Oh Dear is the all-in-one monitoring tool for your entire website. We monitor uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, scheduled tasks and more. You'll get a notifications for us when something's wrong. All that paired with a developer friendly API and kick-ass documentation. O, and you'll also be able to create a public status page under a minute. Start monitoring using our free trial now.
Adapter Pattern vs. Bridge Pattern
Link – – doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
The Adapter pattern and the Bridge Pattern have brought along a lot of confusion. Time to connect the dots.
Read more [doeken.org]
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Building a better search with Monaco and amCharts
Original – – flareapp.io
At Flare, we launched a new search experience. We have a very cool search field with autocompletions (powered by the rendering engine behind VS Code), and a very smooth graph powered by AmCharts. Let's take a look at the technical details!
Read more [flareapp.io]
A Project Manager’s Top Tips
Link – – tighten.co - submitted by Jamison Valenta
Just as each workday is a little different, the same can be said about digital projects. Some digital projects are big and require large teams, months of collaboration, and brand new everything to bring them from beginning to end. So what’s a project manager to do?
Read more [tighten.co]
Laravel Worldwide Meetup #10: A Little Bit of Lambda & Pest To Perfection
This edition of the meetup features those two excellent talks:
- A Little Bit of Lambda (by Aaron Francis)
- Pest to Perfection (by Luke Downing)
Decorator Pattern vs. Proxy Pattern
Link – – doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
Enhance (final) classes and functions by implementing these similar, but not quite the same, patterns.
Read more [doeken.org]
Declaring Expectations Against Array Items in Pest
Link – – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Let's look at how we can use Pest's Expectation API with array items.
Want to learn more about testing and/or Pest? Check out Testing Laravel
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
How to convert a PHPUnit Testsuite to Pest
While recording videos for the Testing Laravel video course, I became a big fan of Pest, a test runner that tries to optimize the developer experience. I'm now using Pest as the default for testing new packages and projects.
I've also converted a couple of existing testsuites from PHPUnit to Pest. Luckily, this is a very easy process. In this video I'll show you how to get started. You'll see that it only takes a couple of minutes.
How to get query builder to output its raw SQL query as a string in Laravel?
Link – – postsrc.com - submitted by Sir Src
Introducing lazy loading prevention into an existing application
Link – – timacdonald.me - submitted by Tim Mac
Introduce lazy loading to an existing application without interrupting flow or overwhelming your logs
Read more [timacdonald.me]
What happens when we clone?
Link – – doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
Cloning is a nice way of creating a quick copy of an object. But there are some things you need to be aware of!
Read more [doeken.org]
Creating an `Option` Type in PHP
Link – – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Let's take a look at how we can create a custom Option type to handle optional values in PHP.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Building a simple dashboard using Tailwind
In this stream, Shruti Balasa show how powerful Tailwind is. She builds a simple dashboard layout in only a couple of minutes. If you want to learn more about Tailwind, consider buying a ticket for her online workshop at Full Stack Europe. You can get a 20% discount for Shruti's workshop by using…
Announcing x-ray for Ray
Link – – dev.to - submitted by Patrick
Using this package, you can quickly scan source code for calls to Ray
Read more [dev.to]
I changed my mind about Tailwind CSS
Link – – www.thomasdhondt.be
When did you last changed your opinion on something technical?
Read more [www.thomasdhondt.be]
Mistakes I've made in AWS
Link – – laravel-news.com
Here's a collection of the most commonly missed things when using AWS with Laravel Forge!
Read more [laravel-news.com]
Building a PHPUnit to Pest Converter in a week
Link – – jasonmccreary.me
Jason McCreary explains why and how he created his cool Pest converter
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
Strategies for decreasing the number of queries in a Laravel app
Oh Dear is all-in-one solution to monitor your site that my buddy Mattias Geniar and I have created. It can monitoring uptime, certificates, broken links, scheduled jobs, and much more.
Under the hood, Oh Dear is a large Laravel application that performs many queries all of the time. To power future features, we've recently changed our database structure and refactored some pieces in our code base. We increased performance by decreasing the number of queries.
In this blog post, we'd like to to share some techniques that might be helpfull to increase the performance of your Laravel app too.
Linking to Flare errors on your error page
Link – – flareapp.io
We've launched a new feature that will make it easier for users of your app to report specific errors.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Fun with PHPUnit Data Providers
Link – – peakd.com
Data providers are a PHPUnit feature (and many testing frameworks have an equivalent) that lets you run a single test method multiple times but with different data. Larry Garflied shows some cool things you can do with them.
Read more [peakd.com]