🧙♂️ One of my favorite Laravel 7 features is query time casting. This is super handy when using a subquery to get extra "non-model" data, such as a date. By default it would be a string. This feature lets you cast it to a Carbon instance "on the fly". 👌https://t.co/Kd94iMsomA pic.twitter.com/VIzowGy3um
— Jonathan Reinink (@reinink) April 15, 2020
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My buddy Nuno is working on an interesting project to improve the experience of writing tests.
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At Laravel News, Stefan Bauer shared some cool Eloquent tips and tricks
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Dancing artisan Christoph Rumpel released a new video series on how to make PhpStorm look pretty and get the most out of it.
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At Spatie we have 100+ servers that we manage for our clients. The past few weeks, I've invested some time in creating a new Laravel package, called laravel-backup-server that can back them all up. In the video below you'll get a first look at the package.
In this post, I'd like to show you a quick demo of our new package called laravel-log-dumper.
🔥 You can use @laravelphp’s Blade components for layouts too. Way cleaner than extending imho. pic.twitter.com/Ol29sCsOci
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) April 10, 2020
Up until a few days ago, the real-time UI of Oh Dear (an uptime monitoring SaaS I run) was powered with web sockets. We recently replaced this with Livewire components.
In this blog post, I'd like to explain why and how we did that.
I'm going to assume that you already know what Livewire is. If not, head over to the Livewire docs. There's even a short video course on there. In short, Livewire enables you to create dynamic UIs using server-rendered partials.
– driesvints.com - submitted by Dries Vints
Dries Vints wrote a bost on why he uses single action controllers.
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Mohammed Said tweeted out a couple of very interesting videos on some of Laravel's security related features.
– driesvints.com - submitted by Dries Vints
Here are three different ways you could test Laravel Cashier.
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A couple of weeks ago, we released Mailcoach: an affordable, self-hosted solution to send out newsletters. Installing it into an existing Laravel application is quite easy if you have experience with Laravel.
We wanted to make getting started with Mailcoach easier for those without experience with Laravel or PHP. Using our a 1-click-installer on the Digital Ocean marketplace you can set up an entire Mailcoach installation in a couple of minutes.
In this blogpost I'd like to show you how you can use the installer and how we built it.
– medium.com - submitted by Pavol Perdik
In this article Pavol Perdik writes about the native PostgreSQL type daterange and how to easily use it in Laravel.
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One of my favourite new features of Laravel 7 are Blade components. The allow you to define custom html tags that are backed by Blade partials. In this blogpost I'd like to show you a couple very handy components.
This blogpost assumes that you already know how you can use Blade components.
Ian Landsman, one of the organisers behind Laracon Online, shares how he and his team have been running the succesfull online conference these past few years.
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Aren't you tired of having to think about which artisan command to execute? The spatie/laravel-random-command package takes that pain away. It provides a random command that will pick a random command and execute it.
Julien Bourdeau explains how you can use the auto_prepend_file option of PHP.
Read more [www.sigerr.org]
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A package by Dries Vints to easily make use of the Heroicons built by Steve Schoger & Adam Wathan in your Laravel Blade views.
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This is what would happen to PHP if my colleague Brent's will was law.
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A must read by Frank de Jonghe on testing.
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