Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI

Sep 18th 2020 – stefanzweifel.io - submitted by Stefan Zweifel

A quick intro on how to use states for "nested" Database Factories. The examples covers the Models created by laravel/cashier-paddle package.

Don't trust default timeouts

Sep 17th 2020 – robertovitillo.com

Modern applications don’t crash; they hang. One of the main reasons for it is the assumption that the network is reliable. It isn’t.

Automating the Laravel 8 schema dump using GitHub Actions

Sep 16th 2020 – fidum.uk

Dan Manson explains how you can run that shiny new schema:dump command on GitHub actions. Pretty cool

Making Time Make Sense in JavaScript

Sep 16th 2020

Maggie Johnson-Pint discusses where the JavaScript Date goes bad, better ways to model the date and time space in our code, and how the Temporal proposal making its way through TC39 helps us write correct code for every person in every time zone.

Unconventional Laravel: Custom Pipeline Classes

Sep 16th 2020 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

Laravel makes use of the internal Pipeline class and it's more common in userland too, but have you ever considered tidying up these pipeline processes with custom pipeline classes?

Gracefully Switching Queue Drivers in a Laravel app

Sep 15th 2020 – divinglaravel.com

In this post Mohamed Said shared the possible ways to switch between drivers.

Working with data in a larger-than-average Laravel app

Sep 14th 2020 – laravel-beyond-crud.com

In this example chapter taken from the Laravel Beyond CRUD course, Brent explains a good strategy to handle data

Faking Laravel's current date in Cypress end-to-end tests

Sep 10th 2020 – johnbraun.blog - submitted by John Braun

When writing an end-to-end test, it is tricky to force the application to use a certain (fake) date. In this post, John Braun shares his approach using a custom middleware to be able to write Cypress tests while your application state uses a specific (fake) date.

Certificate lifetimes limited to 1y since September 1st, 2020

Sep 10th 2020 – ohdear.app

Earlier this year, Apple announced that it limit the lifetime of trusted certificates to 398 days. Shortly after, both Firefox and Chrome followed in their footsteps.

Supporting and testing using multiple Laravel and PHP versions

Sep 9th 2020 – spatie.be

In this video you'll learn how add support for multiple PHP and Laravel versions, and how to run the tests against all combinations of Laravel and PHP.

Serverless functions with Vercel

Sep 9th 2020 – madewithlove.com

Geoffrey Dhuyvetters demonstrates how you can create serverless functions and run them on Vercel.

Refactoring PHP: 4 actionable tips

Sep 8th 2020 – christoph-rumpel.com

Christop Rumpel shares some good tips on how to refactor code.

Invert, always, invert

Sep 8th 2020 – www.anup.io

Instead of focusing of how to get a positive outcome, you might consider thinking about reasons why you'll get a negative outcome. This could possibly lead to new perspectives that you might had not considered otherwise.