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

Symfony 6.1 will require PHP 8.1

Feb 25th 2022 – symfony.com

I think this is great news.

Composable seeders in Laravel with callOnce

Feb 24th 2022 – sebastiandedeyne.com

Laravel 9 is fresh out the door, and it contains a small contribution of mine: a new callOnce method for database seeders.

The web doesn’t have version numbers

Feb 23rd 2022 – hiddedevries.nl

Like ‘Web 2.0’, ‘web3’ is a marketing term. There is no versioning system for the web.

The different types of events in event driven systems

Feb 23rd 2022 – blog.frankdejonge.nl

Event-driven systems come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. The obvious commonality is; they all use events to communicate information. These events come in many shapes and sizes, and determining what goes into an event has an immense impact on the design of your system.

Exploring Termwind Internals original

Feb 22nd 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

In this stream on YouTube, Francisco Madeira, co-creator of Termwind, guides me through the source code of his amazing package to style content on the CLI

A global DNS propagation checker on your CLI

Feb 21st 2022 – dug.unfrl.com

Here's a handy CLI tool to check if your domain resolves to the expected IP address worldwide.

A CLI tool to monitor GitHub Actions original

Feb 21st 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

I'm proud to share that our team has launched a new CLI tool called GitHub Actions Watcher.

Drying up test coverage using model scope events

Feb 21st 2022 – devonmather.dev - submitted by Devon Mather

Let's explore the option of firing events on model scopes to add some glue between our feature tests and our unit tests.

Invading private properties and methods in PHP

Feb 14th 2022

Last week, Caleb tweeted about a nifty function called invade - that he had made to easily work with private properties and methods.

😈 Whatcha think of my new favorite helper method?

That property/method protected or private? No problemoooo 🔓 pic.twitter.com/HqMXKKpRsJ
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) February 11, 2022

He added that invade function to Livewire. Because I could see myself using this in non-Laravel projects, I packaged up the function in a new package called spatie/invade.

DevToys for Mac

Feb 11th 2022 – github.com

Here's a free nifty little Mac app that can do a whole bunch of tasks: formatting JSON, encode URLs, generate UUIDS.

React Hooks for Beginners: Managing State

Feb 11th 2022 – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

What's all the fuss about React hooks? In our latest blog post, we share the basics of managing state with hooks in a React app.

Automate keeping your environment files in sync.

Feb 11th 2022 – github.com

How many times have you onboarded a new dev onto your team, only to have to spend ages debugging with them because your project's .env.example file is wildly outdated?

Here's a package that can help with that!

A package to automatically discover routes in a Laravel app original

Feb 9th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called spatie/laravel-route-discovery. This package can be used to automatically discover and register routes by looking at your controllers and views. Of course, you can also still register routes like you're used to in a routes file.

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

What's new in Laravel 9

Feb 8th 2022

In this video, Jeffrey Way of Laracasts shares all the cool new stuff in Laravel 9.

The Laracon Summer 2021 videos have been released.

Feb 7th 2022

Last year, Laracon held another online edition in the summer. All of the videos are now publicly viewable. You'll find them in this playlist on YouTube.

I had the honour of doing a short talk on snapshot testing in PHP, which you can watch below.

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