How to run over 30k tests in under 5 minutes
Paratest is an extension on top of PhpUnit that adds support for parallel testing. For our unit tests, we could just add Paratest and it works without any configuration!
Read more [blog.mollie.com]
A conversation with Christoph Rumpel original
This week, Christoph Rumpel and I took some time to catch up. We talk a bit on programming, what's going on in our lives, and more. We streamed on our conversation on YouTube.
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The complete guide to Laravel front-end scaffolding
There are many things you can use for front-end scaffolding in Laravel. That can make picking one tough. This blogposts walks you through all the options
Read more [samuelstancl.me]
Static webhosting benchmark: AWS, Google, Firebase, Netlify, GitHub & Cloudflare
Xavier Decuyper researched which provider offers the fastest static webhosting.
Read more [www.savjee.be]
Running Laravel on the DigitalOcean App Platform
– atymic.dev - submitted by atymic
Here's a deep dive into running Laravel on DigitalOcean's new PAAS offering.
Read more [atymic.dev]
Never miss a webhook
Chris Fidao explains a cool strategy he uses at ChipperCI to never miss a webhook.
Read more [chipperci.com]
Billing access to your Laravel apps with Gumroad
Miguel Piedrafita explains how you can let Gumroad and Laravel be friends
Read more [miguelpiedrafita.com]
Creating a "Marked as Completed" button using Livewire original
In this video, which is part of the Laravel Package Training, I show you how the "Marked as Completed" button under each video works.
Translated Text in Source Code
– liamhammett.com - submitted by Liam Hammett
There are a few different ways to handle translated text in your codebase, but here we’ll cover 2 of the more common approaches; using the full text in your source code, and using translation keys.
Read more [liamhammett.com]
Compiling and test driving PHP 8
In this stream, my colleague Brent and I download the source of PHP 8 RC1, and test some of PHP 8's cool new features.
Brent and I are working on Front Line PHP, an ebook on cutting edge tactics in PHP 8, accompanied by videos and practical examples. Subscribe to our mailing list to get updates around this project.
Laravel Worldwide Meetup #3: Yaz Jallad & Adel Fayzrakhmanov original
Here is the recording of Laravel Worldwide Meetup #3. Jazz Jalled spoke on the manager pattern, Adel Fayzrakhmanov on PhpStorm plugin development.
Running GitHub Actions for Certain Commit Messages
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
A quick look at how you can configure your GitHub Actions workflows to only run when a certain phrase is present in the commit message.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
The PHP Community Synergy Initiative
Paul Dragoonis and Christoph Rumpel started a projecto to improve the synergy between the community and the project maintainers
Read more [www.reddit.com]
Light colour schemes are better, based on science
Brent offers scientific arguments why a light color scheme is better. Personally, since I started using a light color scheme a few years back, I've sticked to it and never turned back.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Typing your frontend from the backend
My colleague Ruben introduces the laravel-typescript-transformer package he created. This one can convert backend classes, like enums and DTOs, to TypeScript definitions.
Read more [rubenvanassche.com]
Why and how you should monitor scheduled tasks original
Oh Dear is the monitoring SaaS that my buddy Mattias and I are running. As you might suspect, our service can monitor the uptime of sites and SSL certificates' health. What sets Oh Dear apart from the competition is that it can also monitor performance and detect broken links and mixed content on any of the pages of your site.
Today, we added a new type of monitoring: scheduled tasks monitoring. Oh Dear can now notify you whenever one of your scheduled tasks has not run or is running too late.
You can get started monitoring your schedule today. We have a free ten-day trial. And when using this coupon code, you'll get 30% off on the first three months when subscribing: MONITOR-ALL-THE-THINGS.
In this blog post, I'd like to introduce how you can use scheduled task monitoring in Oh Dear, and how it works under the hood. There were a lot of interesting challenges we had to solve. I hope you're ready to dig it.
How to delete 900 million records in MySQL without shooting yourself in the foot
When reviewing the contents of the database of Flare, we encountered a table with 1 billion records. Technically that isn't a problem. Flare runs on Vapor and uses an Aurora database, so it can handle that scale. But of course, there's a cost for storing that many records.
We dove in and concluded that we could safely delete about 900 million records. They all were created before a specific date.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Moving 27K unique images from Spatie medialibrary local to s3 storage using Laravel Queue
On his blog, Robin Dirksen shares how he migrated the files of his app to S3
Read more [robindirksen.nl]
How to call an overridden trait function original
Traits are a wonderful thing in PHP. You can use them to reduce code duplication by putting common functions in a trait and apply them to all classes where those functions are needed. I also sometimes use traits to break up a large function in multiple single-use traits.
In this post, I'd like to show you how you can override a trait function and call it from the overriding function.
Contributing to an open source PHP package
– johnbraun.blog - submitted by John Braun
In light of the upcoming Hacktoberfest, John Braun shares some tips for beginners who might want to make their first contribution specifically to a PHP package.
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