Creating a Laravel package from scratch original
In this stream, you'll see me lay the foundations for the spatie/laravel-signal-aware-command package.
Improving Ignition's security
A few days ago, you might have received a Dependabot security warning on Ignition concerning a remote code execution vulnarablity. This post on the Flare blog explains why most people shouldn't be effected by this.
Read more [flareapp.io]
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How to Unit Test a Laravel API with the Pest Framework
– www.twilio.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro
In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at how to get started using Pest in a Laravel project. Using the test-driven approach, we’ll be building a simple to-do application that allows you to create, edit, update and delete tasks.
Read more [www.twilio.com]
Why and how you should remove inactive users and teams original
There are many SaaS applications that allow potential new customers to try out the service using a trial period. Of course, not everybody will convert. After the trial period is over, some people will not use the service anymore. However, if nothing is being done about it, their email address and…
Improving Google Maps Performance on Large Datasets
– tighten.co - submitted by Jamison Valenta
Here are some hot tips for mapping large datasets on Google Maps, without sacrificing performance.
Read more [tighten.co]
Vite with Laravel
Vite is a frontend build tool like webpack. Instead of bundling development assets, Vite serves native ES modules transpiled with esbuild from the dev server. This means there’s a lot less bundling to do, and results in a very fast developer experience.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Mailcoach v4 has been released: drip campaigns, automations, mail templates and much more original
I'm proud to announce that Mailcoach v4 has been released. Mailcoach already was a great solution to send out bulk emails affordably. With an entirely refreshed UI and new capabilities, Mailcoach now becomes a more powerful platform for all things email:
- send out regular email campaigns with a provider of your choice
- create drip campaigns and send automated emails based on the activity of your audience
- administer and log transactional emails from your application.
We've also rewritten our extensive documentation.
In this blog post, I'd like to give you a tour of everything Mailcoach can do.
Nodes and the Visitor pattern
– lorisleiva.com - submitted by Loris
Learn why, when and how to structure your data as a cluster of nodes and how to execute various operations on that cluster via external visitors.
Read more [lorisleiva.com]
Maximizing response caching in Laravel
Response caching is like a progressive enhancement. It will make your app faster in some ways, and some cases, but your app must work perfectly well without it.
Read more [samuelstancl.me]
Laravel WorldWide Meetup #7: signing in with Laravel and how the Laracon Online website was built original
Here's a recording of the Laravel Worldwide Meetup #7.
Miguel Piedrafita talked about the various options of signing in with Laravel. After that, Caneco shared some of the secrets behind the Laracon Online website.
Composer Security Hardening
– php.watch - submitted by Ayesh
Security precautions Composer already has, and what you can do to improve them further.
Read more [php.watch]
Using a HasOne over a HasMany relationship in Laravel
When you are working with a one-to-many relationship, it is sometimes the case that a particular instance on the "many" side of the relationship is flagged as unique and important to your system in some way. It can be really handy to be able to access that unique instance in a first class way from your models. This post is going to cover how you can do that without introducing any new concepts into your application.
Read more [timacdonald.me]
Fibers in PHP: A new opportunity for async PHP?
It looks like PHP will get fibers soon with PHP 8.1! That’s awesome! Or is it?
Read more [clue.engineering]
Using Tailwind's JIT compiler with Laravel Mix
As a predominantly Laravel developer that is accustomed to Laravel Mix, I wanted to see how to get Tailwind's JIT compiler working with Laravel Mix, and was pleasantly surprised that it was quite simple and just works.
Read more [dyrynda.com.au]
A JIT compiler for Tailwind CSS
Incredible work by Adam Wathan and his team.
Rationing Your Laravel Queue Workers Memory And CPU Consumption
If you're running your queue workers on a server with limited resources, or a server that's also used to serve HTTP requests and do other tasks, it's important to ration the resource used by those workers.
Read more [divinglaravel.com]
Validating Laravel Console Input
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
When distributing console commands in a package or within an application, making sure data is in the correct format can be important. Let's build a make:user command that takes advantage of Laravel's validation helpers.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Managing your DNS from GitHub with DNSControl
– svenluijten.com - submitted by Sven
How you can leverage DNSControl and GitHub Actions to make DNS configuration a breeze.
Read more [svenluijten.com]
Styling Forms with Tailwind CSS
Here's a very cool video by Simon Vrachliotis on how to style forms with the tailwindcss form plugin.
I could immediately use this knowledge to style some forms on this very blog.
Execute Artisan commands on remote servers original
Using the newly released spatie/laravel-remote package, you can quickly execute Artisan commands on a remote server.
Here's an example that will clear the cache on the remote server.
php artisan remote cache:clear
In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it!
