Don't use Mocking libraries
Link – – peakd.com
Native PHP functionality and having a good design in the first place provide everything you need to avoid a mocking library.
Read more [peakd.com]
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Laravel Seeders on Steroids
Link – – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Seeders are a great way of creating fixture data, as well as dummy data, for your development environment. Let me show you how we can make them even better.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
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Are you a component control freak?
Link – – jjenzz.com
If you're into React, you'll appreciate these patterns for working with uncontrolled components
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Introducing Iterator Functions
Link – – doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
This post exmplains how you can work with iterators and generators as if they were arrays.
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Immutable dates in Laravel
Link – – dyrynda.com.au
Michael Dyrynda explains how you can use immutable dates in Laravel by default.
Read more [dyrynda.com.au]
Git Rebase: a love story
Link – – timacdonald.me
At work, Tim MacDonald decided to show git rebase the love it deserves with a brown bag session. He has record it, so we can enjoy it as well.
Read more [timacdonald.me]
Why Aren't There More Programming Languages Startups?
Link – – www.akitasoftware.com
In this post, Jean Yang focusses on why we don’t see more high-growth startups focused on the kinds of languages and tools coming out of the PLDI community, the “deep tech” side of programming tools.
Read more [www.akitasoftware.com]
Directory Uploads in PHP 8.1
Link – – php.watch
One of the new features in PHP 8.1 is that PHP's $_FILES super global variable now contains the path to the files uploaded by the user.
Read more [php.watch]
New in Git: switch and restore
Link – – www.banterly.net
There's no new functionality, but having these new commands will make Git easier to use.
Read more [www.banterly.net]
Exploring Pest internals
In this stream, Pest creator Nuno Maduro explains how his testing tool works under the hood.
If you want to know how to use Pest (or PHPUnit) to test your application code, consider picking up our Testing Laravel video course.
Migrating our billing portal to the latest version of Laravel Spark
Link – – flareapp.io
How to handle GitHub webhooks in a Laravel application
Whenever something happens in one of your repos on GitHub, you can configure a webhook to be sent to your app. This way, you can perform some extra logic when a particular event occurs on the repo. A silly example would be to send someone a mail when an issue is opened.
We've created a new package called spatie/laravel-github-webhooks that makes it easy to consume GitHub webhooks in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
Announcing our Testing Laravel premium video course
Knowing how to write automated tests is a fundamental skill for any developer. By adding a quality test suite to your application, you'll end up with fewer bugs in production. It allows you to refactor with confidence using a test suite that has your back.
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PHP 8.1: before and after
Link – – stitcher.io
The release of PHP 8.1 will be here within a few months, and once again there are many features to get excited about.
Read more [stitcher.io]
7 Things I Look For When Hiring
Link – – laracasts.com
In this excellent, humanly written blog post, Laracasts founder Jeffrey Way offers some good tips for applying at any company.
Read more [laracasts.com]
Use Blink to execute something once and only once
Link – – sebastiandedeyne.com
Here's a neat use of our Blink package.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Give me /events, not webhooks
Link – – blog.syncinc.so
Here are some cool ideas to improve webhooks
Read more [blog.syncinc.so]
Rebuilding iOS15 with Tailwind CSS
Simon of the Tailwind Labs team, keeps creating cool videos. In this video he recreates the iOS notifications screen.
The state of the PHP Developer ecosystem in 2021
Link – – www.jetbrains.com
JetBrains ran their yearly survey on all the things that devs like and use. Here are the results for the PHP ecosystems
Read more [www.jetbrains.com]
Hostnames as self-executing fetches
Link – – www.bram.us
Here's a cool technique by Bram Van Damme
Read more [www.bram.us]