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

Selling digital products using Laravel part 5: Using Satis to install private packages original

Oct 13th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 7 minute read

Some of our products, like Mailcoach and Media Library Pro, are PHP packages for which people can buy a time-limited license. Of course, we want customers to be able to install our paid packages using Composer. Our paid packages are not registered on Packagist, because Packagist is meant to be used for free packages, and there's no way to handle licenses. Let's take a look at how we can solve this using Satis.

Gracefully deprecating foreign keys for a polymorphic relationship

Oct 12th 2020 – timacdonald.me - submitted by Tim Mac

Here's how to handle moving from a classic foreign key constrained relationship, to a polymorphic relationship in Eloquent, without impacting the end user.

How to run over 30k tests in under 5 minutes

Oct 9th 2020 – blog.mollie.com

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!

A conversation with Christoph Rumpel original

Oct 9th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

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.

The complete guide to Laravel front-end scaffolding

Oct 9th 2020 – samuelstancl.me

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

Static webhosting benchmark: AWS, Google, Firebase, Netlify, GitHub & Cloudflare

Oct 7th 2020 – www.savjee.be

Xavier Decuyper researched which provider offers the fastest static webhosting.

Running Laravel on the DigitalOcean App Platform

Oct 7th 2020 – atymic.dev - submitted by atymic

Here's a deep dive into running Laravel on DigitalOcean's new PAAS offering.

Never miss a webhook

Oct 6th 2020 – chipperci.com

Chris Fidao explains a cool strategy he uses at ChipperCI to never miss a webhook.

Billing access to your Laravel apps with Gumroad

Oct 6th 2020 – miguelpiedrafita.com

Miguel Piedrafita explains how you can let Gumroad and Laravel be friends

Creating a "Marked as Completed" button using Livewire original

Oct 5th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

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

Oct 5th 2020 – 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.

Compiling and test driving PHP 8

Oct 2nd 2020

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

Oct 1st 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

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

Sep 30th 2020 – 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.

The PHP Community Synergy Initiative

Sep 29th 2020 – www.reddit.com

Paul Dragoonis and Christoph Rumpel started a projecto to improve the synergy between the community and the project maintainers

Light colour schemes are better, based on science

Sep 28th 2020 – stitcher.io

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.

Typing your frontend from the backend

Sep 28th 2020 – rubenvanassche.com

My colleague Ruben introduces the laravel-typescript-transformer package he created. This one can convert backend classes, like enums and DTOs, to TypeScript definitions.

Why and how you should monitor scheduled tasks original

Sep 24th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 10 minute read

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

Sep 22nd 2020 – flareapp.io

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.

Moving 27K unique images from Spatie medialibrary local to s3 storage using Laravel Queue

Sep 21st 2020 – robindirksen.nl

On his blog, Robin Dirksen shares how he migrated the files of his app to S3