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

Rethinking Laravel's middleware argument API

Apr 22nd 2020 – 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

📺 A walkthrough of Laravel Backup Server original

Apr 21st 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

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.

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Mixing event sourcing in a traditional Laravel app original

Apr 20th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read

Together with my colleague Brent, I'm working on designing the architecture of a massive Laravel application. In that application, we'll have traditional parts and event sourced parts. In this blog post, I'd like to give a practical example of how we think to achieve this.

Composer 2: What's new and changed

Apr 17th 2020 – php.watch

Composer version 2 will be mostly compatible with your existing workflows, while bringing some more great new features.

End-to-End Encryption in the Browser

Apr 16th 2020 – blog.excalidraw.com

A nice explanation of the window.crypto functions that are available in all major browsers.

Using the spread operator in PHP 7.4

Apr 16th 2020

Did you know that since PHP 7.4, it's possible to use the spread operator in arrays? 👨🏻‍🔬 pic.twitter.com/Wg6Ouc5OYj
— NUNO MADURO (@enunomaduro) April 10, 2020

Directly assigning view variable

Apr 15th 2020

🔥 Applications often have the most lines of code within controller actions.

One practice to streamline your code is directly assigning view variables.

This also limits the use of temporarily variables and promotes abstractions which make the code more readable. pic.twitter.com/m0JGsybQ9k
— Jason McCreary (@gonedark) April 13, 2020

My First Golang

Apr 15th 2020 – chipperci.com

Chris Fidao shares his first Golang app that went into production.

Why does cron only offer minute granularity?

Apr 15th 2020 – superuser.com

I've often asked myself this question.

Query time casting in Laravel

Apr 15th 2020 – twitter.com

🧙‍♂️ 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

Using PEST in Laravel

Apr 15th 2020 – nunomaduro.com

My buddy Nuno is working on an interesting project to improve the experience of writing tests.

6 Eloquent Secrets

Apr 14th 2020 – laravel-news.com

At Laravel News, Stefan Bauer shared some cool Eloquent tips and tricks

📺 PhpStorm Tips with Christoph Rumpel

Apr 14th 2020 – blog.jetbrains.com

Dancing artisan Christoph Rumpel released a new video series on how to make PhpStorm look pretty and get the most out of it.

A first look at laravel-backup-server

Apr 14th 2020

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.

A package to dump anything to the log original

Apr 13th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

In this post, I'd like to show you a quick demo of our new package called laravel-log-dumper.

Using Blade components for layouts

Apr 10th 2020

🔥 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

Replacing websockets with Livewire original

Apr 10th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 11 minute read

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.

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