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How to post to Twitter from your Laravel app using Zapier

Link – Feb 3rd 2021 – mattstauffer.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

This tutorial walks through how to set up your Laravel application to use Zapier to post tweets.

Making our Laravel test suite in Oh Dear ready for parallel testing

Link – Feb 1st 2021 – ohdear.app

Using the new parallel testing feature that recently landed in Laravel, we managed to run the Oh Dear testsuite about four times faster.

Display real-time progress of batched jobs using Livewire

Tweet – Feb 1st 2021 – twitter.com

Using @LaravelLivewire it is incredibly easy to display real-time progress of batched jobs! 🔥

Just drop in this simple trait & blade component and you're off to the races #hottip pic.twitter.com/I6K1zalzeJ
— Willem Leuverink (@gwleuverink) January 18, 2021

What's new in PHP 8.1

Link – Feb 1st 2021 – stitcher.io - submitted by Brent

PHP 8.1 is currently in active development and will probably be released somewhere around the end of November 2021. We already know some features, changes and deprecations, so let's go through them one by one.

A mail driver to quickly preview mail in Laravel apps

Original – Jan 28th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Using our laravel-mail-preview package, you can quickly display mails that are sent by your Laravel application in your browser.

Today, we've released v5 of the package. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

How to Use Cookies With AlpineJS

Link – Jan 28th 2021 – releasecandidate.dev - submitted by Peter

Here's a simple approach on how to use cookies with AlpineJS

Multi-server Atomic Laravel Deployments with GitHub Actions

Link – Jan 28th 2021 – philo.dev - submitted by Philo

Learn how to deploy your Laravel application without any down-time using Github Actions. This technique works for almost any application (Symfony, WordPress, you name it).

Contract Tests

Link – Jan 27th 2021 – www.kai-sassnowski.com

In this post, Kai takes a look at how you can write tests to ensure consistent behavior across all implementations of an interface.

📺 Watch Laravel Worldwide Meetup #5: Hotwire in Laravel & Single DB multi-tenancy

Link – Jan 27th 2021

Here is the recording of Laravel World Wide Meetup #5.

Tony Messias showed the magic of Hotwire in Laravel. Kevin McKee shared an very elegant way to implement single database multi tenancy.

Simplifying service providers in Laravel packages

Original – Jan 25th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

In almost every Laravel package, there is a ServiceProvider class responsible for registering bindings package resources such as config files, views, migrations, ...

While preparing a workshop that I gave on package development, I watched some videos of our own Laravel package training video course again. While watching the videos on using the service provider again, I had the idea to simplify how resources can be registered.

Meanwhile, I've fleshed out the idea and release it as a new package called laravel-package-tools. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.

Configuration precedence when testing Laravel

Link – Jan 24th 2021 – jasonmccreary.me

Here's how Laravel loads config values.

Why Is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast?

Link – Jan 24th 2021 – debugger.medium.com

Last week, I started using a M1 powered MacBook Air as my primary computer. It feels much faster that my previous 16" MacBook Pro with Intel processor. Here's a good post on how Apple made their processors so fast.

Generating unique, random-looking voucher codes

Link – Jan 24th 2021 – gdebrauwer.dev - submitted by Günther Debrauwer

Generating one voucher code is easy, but what if you need to generate thousands (or millions) and you need to be sure that each voucher code is unique? In this post, I will explain how you can solve this problem (in PHP).

A storm in a glass of water

Link – Jan 22nd 2021 – stitcher.io

My colleague Brent makes the case for targetting and uses the latest PHP version.

A pragmatic introduction to event sourcing

Link – Jan 21st 2021

Frank De Jonge recently give a very nice introdution to event sourcing. Here's the recording

If you want to know more about event sourcing, you'll be happy to know that my team is creating a course on the subject. Subscribe to get notified when we launch it.

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