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

New in PHP 8

May 12th 2020 – stitcher.io

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.

Some Relatively Obscure Bash Tips

May 11th 2020 – zwischenzugs.com

Here are some Bash tips that are relatively obscure, or rarely seen, but still worth knowing about.

Tracking Queued Job Chains in Laravel

May 11th 2020 – 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.

Improving PHP's object ergonomics

May 1st 2020 – hive.blog

Larry Garfield has some interesting thoughts on how PHP can be improved.

Intro to Mobile App Development with NativeScript-Vue

May 1st 2020 – tighten.co - submitted by Matt Stauffer

Learn how to build cross-platform, native mobile apps using familiar Vue.js syntax and Tailwind CSS.

Multitenancy in Laravel: Migrations, Testing, and switching tenants

Apr 30th 2020

In this video, Mohammed Said shares a nice, clean strategy for multitenancy in Laravel.

The Laracon Online 2020 videos have been released

Apr 30th 2020 – vimeo.com

On this page on Vimeo you'll find videos of all talks given at Laracon Online that was held in February.

Building a realtime dashboard powered by Laravel, Livewire and Tailwind (2020 edition) original

Apr 29th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 24 minute read

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:

dashboard

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

Apr 29th 2020 – 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.

Application Instrumentation with Aspect Oriented Programming in PHP

Apr 28th 2020 – medium.com - submitted by Vasily

A nice introduction to AOP in PHP, with a focus on performance, with a lot of benchmarks.

Creating a Tweet wall in 3 minutes using Laravel Dashboard original

Apr 28th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

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

Apr 27th 2020

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

Apr 24th 2020 – 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.

Anonymous Alpine Components

Apr 23rd 2020 – 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.

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.

Mixing event sourcing in a traditional Laravel app original

Apr 20th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 10 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.

Did you know that since PHP 7.4, it's possible to use the spread operator in arrays? 👨🏻‍🔬 pic.twitter.com/Wg6Ouc5OYj
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