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]
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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]
How to convert a PHPUnit Testsuite to Pest original
While recording videos for the Testing Laravel video course, I became a big fan of Pest, a test runner that tries to optimize the developer experience. I'm now using Pest as the default for testing new packages and projects.
I've also converted a couple of existing testsuites from PHPUnit to Pest. Luckily, this is a very easy process. In this video I'll show you how to get started. You'll see that it only takes a couple of minutes.
How to get query builder to output its raw SQL query as a string in Laravel?
– postsrc.com - submitted by Sir Src
Introducing lazy loading prevention into an existing application
– timacdonald.me - submitted by Tim Mac
Introduce lazy loading to an existing application without interrupting flow or overwhelming your logs
Read more [timacdonald.me]
What happens when we clone?
– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
Cloning is a nice way of creating a quick copy of an object. But there are some things you need to be aware of!
Read more [doeken.org]
Creating an `Option` Type in PHP
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Let's take a look at how we can create a custom Option type to handle optional values in PHP.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Building a simple dashboard using Tailwind original
In this stream, Shruti Balasa show how powerful Tailwind is. She builds a simple dashboard layout in only a couple of minutes. If you want to learn more about Tailwind, consider buying a ticket for her online workshop at Full Stack Europe. You can get a 20% discount for Shruti's workshop by using…
Announcing x-ray for Ray
– dev.to - submitted by Patrick
Using this package, you can quickly scan source code for calls to Ray
Read more [dev.to]
I changed my mind about Tailwind CSS
When did you last changed your opinion on something technical?
Read more [www.thomasdhondt.be]
Mistakes I've made in AWS
Here's a collection of the most commonly missed things when using AWS with Laravel Forge!
Read more [laravel-news.com]
Building a PHPUnit to Pest Converter in a week
Jason McCreary explains why and how he created his cool Pest converter
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
Strategies for decreasing the number of queries in a Laravel app original
Oh Dear is all-in-one solution to monitor your site that my buddy Mattias Geniar and I have created. It can monitoring uptime, certificates, broken links, scheduled jobs, and much more.
Under the hood, Oh Dear is a large Laravel application that performs many queries all of the time. To power future features, we've recently changed our database structure and refactored some pieces in our code base. We increased performance by decreasing the number of queries.
In this blog post, we'd like to to share some techniques that might be helpfull to increase the performance of your Laravel app too.
