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
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]
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Hostnames as self-executing fetches
Here's a cool technique by Bram Van Damme
Read more [www.bram.us]
Generators vs arrays
– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
Yield better results by iterating over generators. Learn more about these supercharged arrays that can preserve memory.
Read more [doeken.org]
Convert Guzzle requests to curl commands
I came across this cool package that helped me debug a weird request performed by Guzzle.
Read more [github.com]
Introducing Dinero.js
Using Dinero, you can perform mutations, conversions, comparisons, format them extensively, and overall make money manipulation in your application easier and safer.
The docs also contain a few falsehoods many developers believe to be true about money.
Read more [v2.dinerojs.com]
The State of Laravel survey
Laravel celebrated its 10th anniversary a few weeks ago. Today it is the most popular PHP framework used by thousands of developers every day. The emerged ecosystem around Laravel is huge and new trends are popping up all the time. This survey is an attempt to gain insight into the representation of the diverse technologies and behaviors of this outstanding community.
Read more [stateoflaravel.com]
How to render markdown with perfectly highlighted code snippets original
When reading technical blogpost around the web, you might have noticed that code highlighting is not always perfect.
Shiki is the code highlighter that uses the textmate parser VSCode uses under the hood. The code highlighting it provides is near perfect, even when using modern syntax. It supports 100+ languages (via our package Blade is supported too), and all VS Code themes.
I'm proud to announce that we have released three new Spatie packages that make it easy to use Shiki in your PHP projects:
- shiki-php: makes it easy to call Shiki from PHP to highlight a given code snippet
- commonmark-shiki-highlighter: allows commonmark to highlight all code snippets in a markdown fragment
- laravel-markdown: a batteries included Laravel package that offers a Blade component to easily render Markdown with highlighted code snippets and a class to render Markdown manually.
We're already using this package to render all our documentation pages, our guidelines, and this very blog you are reading.
Design patterns for modernizing legacy code bases
Here's the recording of an excellent talk by Matthias Noback given at Socrates.
12 Tips For Better Live Coding
Christoph shares some tips he has collected over the last years while live coding at conferences or live streaming.
Read more [christoph-rumpel.com]
Getting started with Laravel Spotlight
Learn how to use Laravel Spotlight to supercharge your web application with an easy-to-use command palette that your users will love.
Read more [philo.dev]
Opinion-driven design
– stitcher.io - submitted by Brent
Brent shares a few thoughts on open source software design
Read more [stitcher.io]
Source diving Laravel Artisan Dispatchable
In the second part of this stream, I'll walk you through the inner workings of our new spatie/laravel-artisan-dispatchable package.
Source diving Laravel Google Fonts
In the first part of this stream, my colleague Seb explains how spatie/laravel-google-fonts works under the hood.
Introducing Laravel Google Fonts
Sebastian made a pretty interesting package to self host Google Fonts
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
PHP version stats: July, 2021
Here are the update stats on PHP usage (Jordi passed the baton to my colleague Brent)
Read more [stitcher.io]
The case for partials and pipes in PHP
PHP Contributor Larry Garfield walks us through a couple of neat ideas and RFC's for PHP he's been working on. I would very much welcome a pipe operator in PHP.
Read more [peakd.com]
Organizing Miscellaneous Utility Functions
Anna Filina shares how she goes about organizing small functions.
Read more [afilina.com]
Runtime (Big O) Of Laravel's One-Of-Many Relationship
In this article Lennart Carstens-Behrens explains a very impressive PR he recently submitted at the Laravel repo.
Read more [lennartcb.me]
No, Utility Classes Aren't the Same As Inline Styles
Sarah Dayan throughouhly explains the differences between utility classes and inline styles
Read more [frontstuff.io]
