You can group by anything
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sql tips: you can group by anything pic.twitter.com/YoJVlUyghG
— ?Julia Evans? (@b0rk) 29 september 2019
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Live-Updating Status Page With Livewire
– calebporzio.com – Edit
Recently status pages were added to Oh Dear!. My colleague Sebastian took care of the live updates with a few lines of JavasScript.
In a new video on his blog Livewire creator Caleb Porzio, shows how can create the same behaviour with Livewire (and without having to write JavaScript). Impressive stuff!
This sort of thing is right up my alley, but I couldn't help but think how easy it would be in Livewire. Here's is the same functionality implemented with Livewire, in three or four little code additions. No JS!
Read more [calebporzio.com]
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Track successful email deliveries, clicks and opens in your Laravel PHP application with Mailgun
– ninjaparade.ca – Edit
Yaz Jallad explains how you use Mailgun's webhooks to determine click and open rates of mails.
While building ContestKit there was a feature I wanted to allow users to know if the emails that were sent to the winners were delivered successfully. Thankfully this feature is relatively easy to add because of Mailgun's amazing API. Let's create a new Laravel application and get started.
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Software Architecture is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design is Underrated
Gergely Orosz argues that you should start with a simple design and try your best to keep it simple. I don't necessarily agree with everything in the post, but it's an interesting opinion nonetheless.
Software architecture best practices, enterprise architecture patterns, and formalized ways to describe systems are all tools that are useful to know of and might come in handy one day.
Read more [blog.pragmaticengineer.com]
Extracting doesn’t guarantee simplicity
– twitter.com – Edit
Extracting doesn’t guarantee simplicity. Sometimes extracting code into another module means I’ve smeared one “conceptual module” in my brain into two physical files. Now I can’t look at the whole thing at once, and their internal wiring is more prominent than it deserves. Oops.
— Dan Abramov (@dan_abramov) September 25, 2019
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Lazy leadership
Mike Veerman points out that managers that are not making decisions are lazy.
Lazy management means not choosing. It’s only paying lip service. When we put quality first, together with security and performance and everything else, we’re not doing our job. We’re postponing the inevitable in the hope the monster goes away.
Read more [www.mikeveerman.be]
Live updating Oh Dear! status pages
Sebastian De Deyne explains how the live updating on Oh Dear status pages works.
We were originally going to use Vue for the pages, so we could make the entire view reactive so we could easily fetch and update data with AJAX or websockets. I started building the status page view, but quickly became hesitant about the decision to use Vue. It didn’t feel like the right tool for the job.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Creating a Laravel specific package
– johnbraun.blog – Edit
John Braun wrote a good series on how to get started with Laravel package development
Read more [johnbraun.blog]
Use human-readable intervals
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? Don't use magic numbers when defining any TTL (like cache or cookies) in PHP. Use human-readable intervals instead. pic.twitter.com/ZC6S6BVMUi
— Marcel Pociot ? (@marcelpociot) September 23, 2019
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Run prettier or php-cs-fixer with GitHub Actions
– stefanzweifel.io – Edit
Stefan Zweifel shared his GitHub action that can automatically fix code style issues using prettier and php-cs-fixer
One workflow is really like, is to run prettier and php-cs-fixer to automatically format my code and commit the fixed files back to the repository.
Read more [stefanzweifel.io]
How much JavaScript do we really need?
An interesting opinion written by my colleague Seb.
Over the years I’ve experimented with different strategies to build user interfaces. From sprinkling JavaScript over server side templates to full-blown SPAs. My conclusion up until now: we can do better.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Event store optimizations in laravel-event-sourcing original
by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read – Edit
About a year ago, we released laravel-event-projector. It focused on adding projectors, an important concept in event sourcing, to Laravel.
After the release of the package, we continually kept improving it. We added aggregates, a way to test those, a brand new section in the our documentation that explains event sourcing from scratch, and DX improvements all across the board.
We now feel confident that the package is a good starting point for getting started with event sourcing in Laravel. That's why we're renaming the package to laravel-event-sourcing.
An alternative way to organize the Laravel directory structure
– stefanbauer.me – Edit
I don't necessarly agree with every detail in this post, but it's very interesting to see how others structure larger projects.
In this article, I would like to show you an alternative way to organize your Laravel directory structure. I think the default structure is fine for the most projects. But when it comes down to larger projects I was looking for a different structure.
Read more [stefanbauer.me]
How we used Caddy and Laravel's subdomain routing to serve our status pages
– ohdear.app – Edit
My buddy Mattias explains how you can use Laravel and Caddy to handle https traffic to dynamic subdomains.
We recently launched our new Status Page feature. Under the hood, it's using the Caddy proxy server and Laravel's subdomain routing to serve the right status page on the right domain. With this technology stack, we can automatically generate, configure & renewe the SSL certificates for custom domains of our clients.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Improve readability by avoiding else
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? In many cases avoiding `else` and using early returns will greatly improve readability of your code.
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) 17 september 2019
I wish somebody would have told me this sooner in my career.
Contrived example in the image. Real world example: https://t.co/oOsSGAJLZm#bestpractices pic.twitter.com/YgqB0kMIpg
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Reducing Complexity with Guard Clauses in PHP and JavaScript
In this old, but still relevant, blog post Craig Davis explains what guard clauses are and how they can be used to clean up your code.
We’ll first explore several versions of a sample method from a hypothetical billing system. For these purposes, we’ll assume this is code in an existing system and we’ll look at refactoring it to reduce complexity and make it easier for a programmer to understand. The first example will be trivial enough to easily understand, but we’ll build on it in the final examples.
Read more [engineering.helpscout.com]
Creating beautiful status pages using Oh Dear! original
by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read – Edit
My buddy Mattias and I are running an uptime checker service called Oh Dear. Earlier this week, we've launched a new major feature: status pages.
In this blog post, I'd like to walk you through what status pages have to offer. We'll also dive deep in some technical details of the underlying Laravel app.
Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions and Laravel 6
– medium.com – Edit
Roberto B wrote a good tutorial on how to test your Laravel 6 application using GitHub actions.
The scenario that I would like to explain you is: I have a Web App based on Laravel 6, every time I push some new code on master branch on the GitHub repository, I would like to execute automatically Unit tests and Feature tests.
Read more [medium.com]
Generating speaker cards using Tailwind and Laravel original
by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read – Edit
I'm currently organizing the Full Stack Europe conference. The first edition will be on 23 - 25 October in the beautiful city of Antwerp, Belgium. I believe that the best apps or sites aren't built by programmers. They're built by teams. That's why we designed this conference for everybody and don't stick to just one aspect of programming.
How to integrate Elasticsearch in your Laravel App
– madewithlove.be – Edit
Tony Messias wrote a good post on the Madewithlove blog on how to get started using Elastichsearch in a Laravel app.
One of the most popular ways is using Elasticsearch. It is a very powerful tool and it comes with a variety of useful features and complementary tools. We are going to cover the basics here and leave you with some links for more resources if you want to dig further.
Read more [madewithlove.be]
