Function Inlining in PHP's Zend Engine
PHP has several over 30 functions at the moment that make use of special OPCodes or otherwise inlined to improve performance.
Read more [php.watch]
Auto Merge Dependabot Pull Requests
Stefan Zweifel created a nice workflow to automatically merge dependabot PRs when all tests pass
Read more [stefanzweifel.io]
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Laravel Worldwide Meetup #8: Using Vite in Laravel & How to optimize your DB indexes original
Here's the recording of Laravel Wordwide Meetup #8. My guests for this edition were Kai Sassnowski talking on the importance of DB indexes, and Sebastian De Deyne on how to use Vite in Laravel.
How Flare's GitHub integration works under the hood original
Last week, my colleague Ruben and I launched a major new feature at Flare: there's a new integration with GitHub that makes it possible to:
- create a GitHub issue directly on a Flare error
- associate a GitHub issue with a Flare error by mentioning a Flare URL in the GitHub issue
- automatically resolve an error on Flare when you close the GitHub issue
- automatically close a GitHub issue when you resolve an error in Flare
In this stream, Ruben and I will show you how you can use this integration and how it works under the hood.
Refactoring to Inertia Forms
With the launch of the Inertia Vue 3 0.3.0 release, however, the boilerplate required to create forms was drastically reduced.
Read more [engineering.aryeo.com]
Queuing up in meetings
Distributing speaking time can be tricky when meeting face to face, but it is usuallly worse in virtual meetings. Especially those spanning long distances.
Read more [hiddedevries.nl]
The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging
I do want to point out that print debugging has one critical feature that most step-based debuggers don't have: you can see program state from multiple time steps all at once.
Read more [buttondown.email]
Injecting extra data in the payload of queued jobs in Laravel original
I'm proud to announce yet another package by our team: spatie/laravel-interacts-with-payload. This one, which was inspired by a blog post by James Brooks, can inject data in all your jobs with just one line of code.
In this video, you'll see the package in action, I explain the internals and the tests. If you prefer reading, continue below the video.
Controlling the flow of time in your tests original
Our test-time package makes writing tests, for code that makes its decisions based on the current time, very easy.
Here's how we use the package for some tests in Mailcoach.
Self hosting Google Fonts
To self-host, you need to download the fonts and write the appropriate @font-face CSS rules. Instead of doing this myself, Seb came across an excellent tool to streamline this process
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Exploring event sourcing
My colleague Brent and I are currently preparing a premium course on event sourcing in Laravel. In this stream, we explained the foundations, shared some thoughs on some of the concept, and answered questions from the audience.
A lightweight Laravel package to track changes over time original
I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called spatie/laravel-stats. This package is a lightweight solution for summarizing changes in your database over time.
Injecting Additional Data into Laravel Queued Jobs
The Queue class contains a method named createPayloadUsing which allows you to register a callback that is executed when creating job payloads.
Read more [james.brooks.page]
Starting with Event sourcing
Event sourcing is about storing changes, instead of their result. It's those changes that make up the final state of a project.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Better Laravel / PHP Code: five guidelines from Spatie
YouTube star Povilas Korop shares and discusses five rules from our guidelines.
Building React + Vue support for Tailwind UI
Adam Wathan wrote a lenghty post on why and how they are bringing React and Vue support to Tailwind UI
Read more [blog.tailwindcss.com]
Event sourcing projectors in depth
Here's an excerpt from Event Sourcing in Laravel, an premium course by Spatie launching later this year.
Read more [event-sourcing-laravel.com]
Data Transfer Object v3 has been released original
We've released a new major version of spatie/data-transfer-object. This package makes it easy to create objects that have a certain shape. Properties can even be validated.
🐘 Need self-validating PHP objects? Here you go!https://t.co/osPCSr0qu8
— Freek Van der Herten 🎆 (@freekmurze) April 2, 2021
Gotta love PHP 8
Very nice work by @brendt_gd pic.twitter.com/Sn1mS7R8Sv
In this post I'd like to tell you more the package.
Handling console signals in Laravel original
When you cancel a long-running artisan command with Ctrl+C, a SIGINT signal is sent by the operating system to the PHP process. You can use this signal to perform some cleanup quickly.
Symfony 5.2 introduced support for handling signals in commands.
We've released a package called spatie/laravel-signal-aware-commands that provides a substantial improvement to how you can use these signals in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
