Working with data in a larger-than-average Laravel app
In this example chapter taken from the Laravel Beyond CRUD course, Brent explains a good strategy to handle data
Read more [laravel-beyond-crud.com]
Faking Laravel's current date in Cypress end-to-end tests
– 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.
Read more [johnbraun.blog]
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Certificate lifetimes limited to 1y since September 1st, 2020
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.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Supporting and testing using multiple Laravel and PHP versions
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.
Read more [spatie.be]
Serverless functions with Vercel
Geoffrey Dhuyvetters demonstrates how you can create serverless functions and run them on Vercel.
Read more [madewithlove.com]
Refactoring PHP: 4 actionable tips
Christop Rumpel shares some good tips on how to refactor code.
Read more [christoph-rumpel.com]
Invert, always, invert
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.
Read more [www.anup.io]
Building and growing hobby projects
In this stream I share how Mattias Geniar and I started and are growing Oh Dear. Halfway the stream, Simon Bennet joins me to talk about Snapshooter.
Job Batching in Laravel: How It Works
Mohamed Said wrote a good post on how the shiny new batching functionality works in Laravel 8
Read more [divinglaravel.com]
PEST v0.3 is now released
– nunomaduro.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro
PEST v0.3 features a new expectation API, a brand new PHPStorm plugin, and more.
Read more [nunomaduro.com]
How to schedule commands to run every few seconds in a Laravel app original
Using our spatie/laravel-short-schedule package you can schedule commands at sub-minute intervals.
Compound Colour Utilities with TailwindCSS
– liamhammett.com - submitted by Liam Hammett
An approach you can use to combine multiple tightly coupled utilities together into a new compound utility class.
Read more [liamhammett.com]
Dialects in Code
Ross Tuck doesn't blog often, but when he does, it's worth your time!
Read more [www.rosstuck.com]
Writing Reusable Alpine Components
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Reusability is important when it comes to scaling projects and future-proofing the maintainability of a project. Let's take a look at how you can write more re-usable components in Alpine.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Surviving a heatwave using Google Cloud functions
This summer in Belgium has been a very hot one, and we're bound to have a couple more very warm weeks during the rest of summer.
I'm not the best at dealing with this kind of heat, and with the temperature inside hitting 28° C, I've been trying to get my home to cool down on a budget: I open the windows when the temperature outside is cooler than inside, and close them when it warms up. I've also noticed the sun hits the living room starting at around 7 in the morning, which means I should close the curtains right around that time to stop the tile floor from heating up.
From the start, I knew it was likely that I would forget to close the windows in time. I would need someone - or something - to remind me. I saw a talk about Google Cloud by Bram Van Damme at JSConf.be a while back, so I decided this could be a fun little project to play around with GCP.
Introducing Laravel Beyond CRUD: a way of building large Laravel applications original
It's funny how from the outside, IT is often seen as an exact science. When starting as a developer, I often heard people say: "Oh, you're in IT, so you must be good at mathematics". I never understood why someone who is supposedly good at mathematics is the right person to fix a printer.
When you have some experience building applications, you know that IT is not an exact science. There are multiple valid solutions to a problem. Take five developers and ask them what the best way to set up a blog is. You'll likely get five different answers. Each suggestion will have its own set of tradeoffs.
What happened to our infrastructure when a customer got over 10 million page views in a few hours?
Jack Ellis shares what happend at his analytics service when one of his clients got viral
Read more [usefathom.com]
Laravel Beyond CRUD is now available
It's been over a year in the making and I happy to say it's here: the Laravel Beyond CRUD book and video course are now available.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Collision v5.0 released
– nunomaduro.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro
With Laravel 8 coming soon, Nuno just released Collision v5.0. Let's see the changes merged into this release.
Read more [nunomaduro.com]
How to group queued jobs using Laravel 8's new Batch class original
Laravel 8 offers a shiny new way to group multiple jobs into one batch. This will allow you to easily check how many job there are in a batch, what to total progress is and even cancel all jobs in a batch.
In this blog post, I'd like to share how we will use this feature in the upcoming v3 of Mailcoach. We'll also take a look at how batches are implemented under the hood in Laravel.
