Composer 2: Platform Check
Composer v2 has a new feature that your server environment is checked at the run-time before the autoloader is even initialized. This is everything you should know about it
Read more [php.watch]
Refactoring: Demeter-Wrapping
Geepaw Hill explains a way to avoid demeter violations.
Read more [www.geepawhill.org]
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How Oh Dear identified a certificate problem at a large CDN provider
Oh Dear performs SSL certificate monitoring in a slightly different than other services, which is why it was able to detect a problem with the SSL certificates of a very large, commercial, CDN provider.
Read more [ohdear.app]
New in PHP 8
PHP 8, the new major PHP version, is expected to be released by the end of 2020. It's in very active development right now, so things are likely to change a lot in the upcoming months.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Some Relatively Obscure Bash Tips
Here are some Bash tips that are relatively obscure, or rarely seen, but still worth knowing about.
Read more [zwischenzugs.com]
Tracking Queued Job Chains in Laravel
– blog.rafter.app - submitted by Josh Larson
Learn how to track and visualize a chain of queued jobs in Laravel using a custom trait, job middleware, and Laravel Livewire.
Read more [blog.rafter.app]
Improving PHP's object ergonomics
Larry Garfield has some interesting thoughts on how PHP can be improved.
Read more [hive.blog]
Intro to Mobile App Development with NativeScript-Vue
– tighten.co - submitted by Matt Stauffer
Learn how to build cross-platform, native mobile apps using familiar Vue.js syntax and Tailwind CSS.
Read more [tighten.co]
Multitenancy in Laravel: Migrations, Testing, and switching tenants
In this video, Mohammed Said shares a nice, clean strategy for multitenancy in Laravel.
The Laracon Online 2020 videos have been released
On this page on Vimeo you'll find videos of all talks given at Laracon Online that was held in February.
Read more [vimeo.com]
Building a realtime dashboard powered by Laravel, Livewire and Tailwind (2020 edition) original
At Spatie we have a TV screen against the wall that displays a dashboard. This dashboard displays the tasks our team should be working on, important events in the near future, which tasks each of our team members should be working on, what music they are listening to, and so on. Here's what it looks like:
This dashboard is built using our laravel-dashboard package. It will allow you to built a similar dashboard in no time.
In this blogpost I'd like to walk you through both the dashboard and the package.
Static Constructors in PHP
– liamhammett.com - submitted by Liam Hammett
A static constructor is just a method the developer can define on a class which can be used to initialise any static properties, or to perform any actions that only need to be performed only once for the given class. The method is only called once as the class is needed.
Read more [liamhammett.com]
Application Instrumentation with Aspect Oriented Programming in PHP
– medium.com - submitted by Vasily
A nice introduction to AOP in PHP, with a focus on performance, with a lot of benchmarks.
Read more [medium.com]
Creating a Tweet wall in 3 minutes using Laravel Dashboard original
In this short video I demonstrate how you can display multiple Twitter feeds using laravel-dashboard. I will release the packages as soon as we hit 50 sponsors on GitHub.
A first look at the laravel-dashboard package
In this unrehearsed streaming session I show off how you can use the upcoming laravel-dashboard package to quickly build a beautiful dashboard that shows a realtime Twitter wall, a calendar tile that is fed by events coming from a Google Calendar, and a tile that displays the weather.
Combining event sourcing and stateful systems
– stitcher.io - submitted by Brent
In this two-part series, my colleague Freek and I will discuss the architecture of a project we're working on.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Anonymous Alpine Components
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
If you don't need a reactive UI, Alpine.js might still find it's place in your tech stack.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Rethinking Laravel's middleware argument API
– timacdonald.me - submitted by Tim Mac
String concatenation is the current way we can pass arguments to Laravel middleware - but what if there was another way
Read more [timacdonald.me]
📺 A walkthrough of Laravel Backup Server original
In this stream (which is the first I've ever done) I'll show you what you can do with our upcoming laravel-backup-server package and how it works under the hood.
