Disabling HTML5 Form Validation For Laravel Dusk Tests
Disabling client-side browser validation will allow you to test your real validation rules, instead of Chrome's.
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Using optional attributes in a Laravel factory
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🕵️♂️ Just discovered "->optional()" in $faker for my Laravel factories.
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) January 18, 2020
Check it out.
Did you already know about this? pic.twitter.com/MrVETY7i3f
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Remove all history from a GitHub repository original
by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read – Edit
From time to time I need to remove all history from a GitHub repository, for instance right before releasing a package I've worked on in private. Sometimes I don't want people to see all mistakes I've made along the way :-).
Lost in transaction
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Bernd Ruecker talks about how determine the right level of consistency in distributed applications.
Design Principles of Vue 3.0
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Evan You explains the principles behind the changes coming in Vue 3.0
How tracking pixels work
Julia Evans explains how parties like Facebook can follow you around the web.
In this post we’ll experiment a bit and see exactly how Facebook can know what products you’ve looked at online! I’m using Facebook as an example in this blog post just because it’s easy to find websites with Facebook tracking pixels on them but of course almost every internet advertising company does this kind of tracking.
Read more [jvns.ca]
Using GitHub actions to run the tests of Laravel projects and packages original
by Freek Van der Herten – 10 minute read – Edit
For many years we've relied on Travis to run the tests of our packages. For projects we used Circle CI. Recently we moved this responsibility from Travis and Circle CI to GitHub actions. In this blogpost I'd like to explain why and how we did this.
Fetching data in the perimeter of your Laravel applications
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Jonathan Reinink wrote another excellent blog post.
As much as possible, keep data fetching to the perimeter of your Laravel applications. What do I mean by this? In the simplest terms, it means running your database queries in your controllers.
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Pass data to the main Blade layout
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TIL: in @laravelphp blade you can pass data up the main layout you are extending #laravel #php pic.twitter.com/IEWYHv0uyE
— Sidrit Trandafili (@strandafili) 23 december 2019
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10 HTML Elements You Didn't Know You Needed
Emma Bostian demonstrates some lesser known HTML elements.
HTML is a powerful markup language which can be used to give our web applications structure and provide powerful accessibility benefits, but only when used appropriately. Thus, today we’ll discover ten HTML elements you might not have known existed in the hopes that you can create more accessible, and structurally-sound web applications.
Read more [dev.to]
Fake Guzzle responses using a MockHandler
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⚗️ One of the most common integrations developers struggle to test is Guzzle. Fortunately, it has a `MockHandler` you can set up to return predefined responses.
— Jason McCreary (@gonedark) 23 december 2019
Since it uses the existing `Client` and `Response` objects, there's no need to change your implementation. pic.twitter.com/Ui2Zyqj2Lt
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What a Year of Learning and Teaching Accessibility Taught Me
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Sara Soueidan shares valueable insights on the importance of accessibility.
A few years ago I didn’t know what the term “accessibility” meant. I built Web sites that were partially inaccessible because I didn’t know better. Fast forward to today, I know enough to be able to write, speak and run workshops on accessibility, helping others build more a accessible and inclusive Web. Much like everyone else in our field, I am still learning. But since I started, I learned a lot of valuable lessons and core values that drive my work today. Here are a few of them.
Read more [www.24a11y.com]
📺 How to avoid large function signatures by using pending objects original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
In this video I demonstrate how to you can create a fluent API by using pending objects. We'll take a look at how subscribers can be created in Mailcoach. As a bonus I explain how jobs are dispatched using a pending object in Laravel.
My favourite albums released in 2019 original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
These are my 10 favourite albums which were released in 2019, alphabetically sorted.
📺 Building filters using laravel-query-builder original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
On the subscribers screens of the Mailcoach, you can filter out the subscribers that have a certain status, you can search and sort them.
In the video below, which is part of the upcoming Mailcoach video course, I explain how we built these filters, powered by three of our packages: laravel-query-builder, query-string and Blade X.
The Laracon EU 2019 videos have been released.
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Laracon EU is an amazing conference I had the pleasure of attending these past years. Last week the videos of the 2019 edition have been released. You can see them all in this handy playlist on YouTube.
At the conference Marcel Pociot and I revealed Ignition and Flare. Relive that here:
Get the ids of a collection of models
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TIL that there's a shorthand for the dreaded pluck('id')->toArray() combo in #Laravel:$user->posts->modelKeys() will return all related post IDs that are attached to the user model! 🔥https://t.co/imIPlVNjwi
— Alex (@AlexVanderbist) 19 november 2019
S/O to @rubenvanassche for telling me this existed 👌 pic.twitter.com/c3sANn52M8
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Using view models
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Brent explains what view models are and how you can use them. We use view models in almost every project at Spatie.
In essence, view models are simple classes that take some data, and transform it into something usable for the view. In this chapter I'll show you the basic principles of the pattern, we'll take a look at how they integrate in Laravel projects, and finally I'll show you how we use the pattern in one of our projects.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Using `yield` in phpunit data providers
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Here's a little tip: you can use `yield` in phpunit data providers to make them a little more readable pic.twitter.com/rQeKw7jBed
— Brent (@brendt_gd) 12 december 2019
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How to align Laravel route methods
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🔥 Like Model::query() to align subsequent calls, here's the world's simplest macro to do something similar in routes. pic.twitter.com/OzWJ7Fcx8F
— Paul Redmond 🇺🇸 (@paulredmond) 12 december 2019
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