Today at Laracon EU, Marcel Pociot and I unveiled Ignition, a beautiful new error page for Laravel. It is the new default error screen in Laravel 6 and you can manually install it into Laravel 5 applications. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
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These past eight months Marcel Pociot, me and our teams at Beyond Code and Spatie have been working on a secret project called Flare. We believe that Flare is going to change the way you work with Laravel. To be kept in the loop subscribe to our mailinglist.
We are going to launch it this Friday at Laracon EU at 16.30 local time (15:30 CET). The Laravel News YouTube channel will live stream the launch. You can watch the stream right below.
? If you need to process a lot of models, don't load them all into memory, but chunk them.
— Freek Van der Herten ? (@freekmurze) August 21, 2019
Laravel has a beautiful `each` method for this.https://t.co/cVWdpsGtQ1#laravel #php pic.twitter.com/ISW7XQcehx
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Stefan Bauer explains how to handle error message when you have multiple forms on one page
Here's another tip! Even if it's documented here I just wanted to show it. Here's the deal: Imagine you have multiple forms one page. For example one contact form and another newsletter signup form. Both of them might have an email field. So who do you know which email field doesn't validate and throws an error?
Read more [stefanbauer.me]
☝️If you are relatively new to Testing in Laravel. Here are 3 methods you NEED to be familiar with.
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) August 21, 2019
Understanding these will make your life much easier. pic.twitter.com/x3mxjCsV9z
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If you're using #Laravel Valet in Europe:
— Sander van Hooft (@SandervHooft) August 19, 2019
Just discovered "valet share --region=eu".
Ngrok seems to default to the US region otherwise. Major speed improvement.
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CASE is SQLs answer to other programming languages IF-ELSE statement. If you need to test a condition and return a value CASE is the expression you need.
Read more [www.helenanderson.co.nz]
From time to time our team needs to create fairly complicated CRUD interfaces from scratch. While this isn't rocket science, there surprisingly aren't that many good resource out there on how to do this. That's why our team dove in and published a couple of packages that can help create modern CRUD…
I just found out that a recent version of #Laravel Valet introduced a "valet use php@version" command. Make sure you upgrade Valet to get this functionality. ? pic.twitter.com/JW99xfJNNb
— Kevin McKee (@iAmKevinMcKee) August 12, 2019
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You can use the Oh Dear! API to automatically perform health checks on your app after a deploy.
You can use our API to trigger an on demand run of both the uptime check and the broken links checker. If you add this to, say, your deploy script, you can have near-instant validation that your deploy succeeded and didn't break any links & pages.
Read more [ohdear.app]
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I hear more and more people talking about JAMstack. Here's a good post that explains what it is.
JAMstack is am excellent way to build fast, secure and static websites. (keep in mind, not every JAMstack website has every element of the JAM - the core feature that they all have in common is that they are serverless)
Read more [dev.to]
Some solid advice for when you're building a product.
Build a product with the help of a hacker. Design it for the benefiter. Sell it to an expert.
Read more [uxdesign.cc]
Unsung Laravel hero Joseph Silber opened up a very interesting PR to Laravel. Let's hope this one gets accepted.
Whereas the existing Collection class wraps a native array, the new LazyCollection class wraps a native iterator, while still providing most of the methods that we know and love from a regular collection.
Read more [github.com]
Christoph Rumpel wrote a clear post on how you can use Laravel's service container.
The service container is a quite complex topic, and I see many struggling to understand what it does. It was the same for me, and the main reason is that many explanations concentrate on "how" to use the container. With this article, I want to give you my introduction to this topic by focusing on the "why" and "when" the container can help us with our dependencies.
Read more [christoph-rumpel.com]
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Here a some great tips on how to write robust software.
NASA's JPL, which is responsible for some of the most awesomest science out there, is quite famous for its Power of 10 rules (see original paper). Indeed, if you are going to send a robot on Mars with a 40 minutes ping and no physical access to it then you pretty damn well should make sure that your code doesn't have bugs.
Read more [dev.to]
Patrick Brouwers, the creator of Laravel Excel, explains how to handle failing jobs in Laravel
When designing software, don’t only think about the happy path. Write down (preferably with (unit) tests) what all the things are that could go wrong. Then design your solution to be able to recover those situations. (Wether or not automatic.) There isn’t a single solution to rule them all, some processes might need to have specific failure handling while others are fine with the default approach.
Read more [medium.com]
Laravel Shift creator JMac did a write up of the talk he gave at this year's Laracon US
I received a lot of valuable feedback from these talks. So I combined them by using analytics from Shift to identify underutilized features of Laravel and demonstrate them with code.
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
Mohammed Said shares some solid tips on optimizing costs when working in a serverless environment like Laravel Vapor
Laravel Vapor uses different AWS resources to efficiently get your application up and running in the serverless cloud. The building block of the whole thing is AWS Lambda, it's where the actual computing happens. Calculating the cost of the compute part for your application can be a bit confusing, so let's simplify it a bit with an example.
Read more [divinglaravel.com]
Jonathan Reinink has added a very usefull metric to Laravel debugbar
Last week at Laracon US I gave a talk titled Eloquent Performance Patterns. In that talk I used a custom Laravel Debugbar metric I created to track how many Eloquent models were being hydrated throughout a request. I've had a lot of people asking about this, so today I submitted a pull request to the Laravel Debugbar to add this as an official metric.
Read more [reinink.ca]
