Faking HTTP requests in Laravel original
Have you ever had to write an API integration from scratch? Where you're managing the HTTP calls yourself instead of being able to rely on third-party packages?
The benefits of testing (video)
In this video, which is part of the Testing Laravel video course, I explain the benefits of testing.
Read more [spatie.be]
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Test-driving complex features with Laravel & Pest
- submitted by Mateus Guimarães
Mateus Guimaraes show a couple of neat tests powered by Pest.
Three types of mocks original
Mocking, faking; these might sound like intimidating words if you don't know what they are about, but once you do, you'll be able to improve your testing skills significantly.
Part of "the art of testing" is being able to test code in some level of isolation to make sure a test suite is trustworthy and versatile. These topics are so important that we actually made five or six videos on them in our Testing Laravel course.
In this post, I want to share three ways how you can deal with mocking and faking. Let's dive in!
A Laravel package to crawl and index content of your sites original
The newly released spatie/laravel-site-search package can crawl and index the content of one or more sites. You can think of it as a private Google search for your sites. Like most Spatie packages, it is highly customizable: you have total control over what content gets crawled and indexed.
To see the package in action, head over to the search page of this very blog.
In this post, I'd like to introduce the package to you and highlight some implementation and testing details. Let's dig in!
Using Factory sequences in Laravel original
One of the things I really like about modern Laravel projects, are the new model factories introduced in Laravel 8.
Replacing Keytar with Electron's safeStorage in Ray original
Ray is an app we built at Spatie to make debugging your applications easier and faster. Being web developers, we naturally decided to write this app in Electron, which enabled us to move from nothing to a working prototype to a released product on 3 separate platforms within a matter of weeks.
Making 1Password understand where your change password page is located original
A few days ago, a new version of 1Password was released that is able to detect where a user can reset his or her password.
How I built a modern website in 2021
A pretty interesting read by Kent on how he rebuilt his own site from scratch. Kent is mostly JavaScript focused, so it's good to get a perspective on which technolgies and solutions you choose with such a background.
The website certainly looks very good!
Read more [kentcdodds.com]
Trees and Tree Traversal in PHP
– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
In this post I want to introduce you to Tree structures. What they are, how you can use them, and in which situation they can be helpful.
Read more [doeken.org]
Asserting valid and invalid requests in Laravel original
Testing a Laravel project is one of the most pleasant experiences I've ever had: there's a clean testing API, a very powerful layer added on top of testing frameworks; all while keeping the simplicity and eloquence you'd expect from a Laravel project.
How Livewire works (a deep dive)
The experience of using Livewire seems magical. It's as if your front-end HTML can call your PHP code and everything just works. A lot goes into making this magic happen.
Read more [calebporzio.com]
Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
It was as if someone had "pulled the cables" from their data centers all at once and disconnected them from the Internet.
Read more [blog.cloudflare.com]
Adapter Pattern vs. Bridge Pattern
– 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]
Building a better search with Monaco and amCharts original
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
– 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 original
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
– 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
– 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]
