Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years
Here's a nice list of JS niceties that is available natively in modern browsers
Read more [turriate.com]
Automatically fix PHP and JS code style problems on GitHub PRs
Claudio Dekker runs you through the GitHub action he created to automatically handle code styling issues at Laravel
Read more [dekker.io]
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Saying Goodbye To Typo CI
There's no shame in stopping a project if it turns out it isn't worthwhile to continue working on it.
Read more [mikerogers.io]
How to compile PHP from Source
Knowing how to compile PHP will open one of the few doors necessary for contributing to the PHP language. Once you get familiar with this it will be much easier for you to contribute in many ways such as running tests and uploading reports, writing new tests by yourself and bug reporting/fixing.
Read more [thephp.website]
How to Dynamically Update Twitter Cover Image to Show Latest Followers
– dev.to
Erika Heidi created a nice solution to generate and update cover images on your Twitter account. In this blog post she explains it all.
Read more [dev.to]
Dear Future Me: I Am Not Alone
Lisi Hocke on the challenges she faced the past few months during the pandemic. At the end of the post, she gives a few list of recommendations you can try to prevent a burn out.
Read more [www.lisihocke.com]
Clever vs insightful code
We talk about cleverness as if it’s Just Bad, such as “clever code is harder to debug”. That’s going too far. Cleverness can lead to faster, safer, even clearer code.
Read more [www.hillelwayne.com]
Setting up and securing a private Composer repository
Alex explains how we use Satis to give users of paid Spatie products access to private repos.
Read more [alexvanderbist.com]
Optimizing Vue for Speed, Performance, and Core Web Vitals
Matt Stauffer on how to minimize Vue's impact on the Core Web Vitals?
Read more [mattstauffer.com]
What about config builders?
My colleague Brent shares some thoughts on possible improvements to handling config values.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Laravel Transporter, how to make OOP API requests
– www.juststeveking.uk - submitted by Steve McDougall
Laravel transporter is an easy to use wrapper around Laravel PendingRequest that allows you to define requests as classes, and override options at run time when you need to.
Read more [www.juststeveking.uk]
Laracasts now is an Inertia powered SPA
In this blog post, Jeffrey Way explains why and how he refactored Laracasts from a traditional server rendered app to an SPA using Inertia.
Read more [laracasts.com]
Don't test constructors
Matthias Noback wrote down some good testing advice.
Read more [matthiasnoback.nl]
What's new in laravel-event-sourcing v5
Last week we released a new version of spatie/laravel-event-sourcing. Version 5 is probably one of the largest releases since the beginning of the package. We've worked several months on it and have been testing it extensively already in our own projects.
In this post, my colleague Brent will walk you through all the changes and new functionalities.
Read more [stitcher.io]
A Laravel package to dispatch jobs via Artisan original
Our team has released a new Laravel package: spatie/laravel-artisan-dispatchable. This package allows you to dispatch any job from an artisan command.
In this blog post, I'd like to explain why we created the package and how you can use it.
Alpine 3.x Tips and Tricks
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Here are a few tips and tricks that you can use in your Alpine 3.x components.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Writing better Regular Expressions in PHP
Regular expressions are powerful, PHP but they are not known to be readable, and more often than not, maintaining a regular expression is not a straight-forward task. Here are some tips to improve and write better regular expressions in PHP.
Read more [php.watch]
🚀 Event Sourcing for Laravel is now available original
I'm thrilled to announce that our premium course Event Sourcing in Laravel has just launched.
If you ever wanted to get started with event sourcing, this is the course for you. It contains a beautifully designed ebook, two hours worth of videos, and a demo Laravel app containing an event-sourced shopping cart.
Event sourcing isn't an all or nothing approach. Even if your project doesn't need the full power of event sourcing, you can still benefit from knowing and implementing best practices from the event sourcing world.
We're offering a 20% launch discount for the next two weeks to celebrate this release.
In this stream, you can see my colleague Brent and I launch the course, and answer questions from the audience.
JSON API Error Responses in Laravel with Httpable Exceptions
Jess Archer show a nice approach on how to use exception in the HTTP layer.
Read more [jessarcher.com]
Dealing with the n+1 problem in Laravel
Mohamed shows how you can deal with N+1 problems using the $with model attribute and the newly added Model::preventLazyLoading() method.
