Here's how Mattias Geniar swapped out laravel-echo-server in favor of laravel-websockets at Oh Dear!
We have just finished our transition from a websocket server based on laravel-echo-server to one that is fully driven by PHP: laravel-websockets. In this post, we'll highlight why and how we made that move.
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My colleague Seb wrote a cool package that adds tags and classes to code blocks in html, so they can be highlighted with css.
I created a spatie/commonmark-highlighter package that supports higlighting with CommonMark. After you register two custom renderers, all code blocks will receive a set of tags and classes, so they're already prepped to be highlighted by CSS when your content arrives in the browser.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
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laravel-websockets is a Laravel package that can handle the server side of WebSockets entirely. It completely replaces the need for a service like Pusher or a JavaScript-based laravel-echo-server. It has extensive documentation and a demo application you can play with. Marcel, developer and co-owner…
Tim MacDonald demonstrates how you can add logic to a custom collection.
Laravel collections have become an essential part of my codebases and I couldn't imagine working without them. I have found giving collections the voice of the problem domain makes for a much nicer API when compared to the generic collection methods.
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At this years dot js conference, Joost Lubach gave an incredible lightning talk on various sync and async concepts.
?Did you know you can prevent registration of register routes or enable the verification route in your @laravelphp routes file when using the auth scaffolding?
— Michael Dyrynda (@michaeldyrynda) November 29, 2018
Pass register or verify keys with boolean values to control this. pic.twitter.com/u8ysLHsppo
4 years ago I started this blog as a tool to share interesting blogposts I found around the web. On each anniversary of my blog I published some interesting stats on the blog. This year is no different.
Between November 2017 and november 2018 this blog served 728 243 pages, a good increase compared to the 591 113 pageview from the previous period. There are 1 217 published posts, of which 195 I've written myself. The others ones are links to other blogs.
Last year in November I moved this blog from WordPress to a custom made Laravel app. A few months ago I removed the handcrafted admin section in favor of Laravel Nova. I'm really glad that I now have full control over my blog and not tied to WordPress anymore. I also opensourced the Laravel app. You can find the source code in this repo on GitHub.
These were the ten most visited posts of the past 12 months:
I do hope you still enjoy reading this blog!
Last month at the Laravel PHP Paris meetup, Nuno Maduro introduced his newest package called Scout Extended.
Jonathan Reininck wrote a cool article on how you can create dynamic releationships. This technique will keep the number of queries and the memory used to a minimum.
I hope that gives you a good overview of how you can use subqueries to create dynamic relationships in Laravel. This is a powerful technique that allows you to push more work into the database layer of your app. This can have a huge impact on performance by allowing you to drastically reduce the number of database queries executed and overall memory used.
Read more [reinink.ca]
Did you know that you can define a $dispatchesEvents property on your Eloquent model and map native Eloquent events to your own event classes? ? Check this out: pic.twitter.com/P205GTIYEc
— Laravel Docs Daily (@laradocsdaily) November 24, 2018
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I've been using PhpStorm for quite some time now, but never took the effort to fix a few minor annoyances I had with it. Getting rid of the default comment for new PHP files First up, when creating a new PHP file or class you PhpStorm will add this comment block like this by default: /** * Created…
?️ Use "declarative" (the state of the thing) names for your data attributes in Vue over "imperative" (an action to take on the thing) pic.twitter.com/LJk2MRT0Bw
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) November 19, 2018
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Here's a video of Surma having technical problems while presenting his State of Houdini talk. Luckily Jake Archibald and others "help" him out ? No matter how well you prepare a talk, you can always have technical difficulties. If you handle the failure gracefully, the public won't mind.…
Caleb Porzio, developer at Tighten Co, recorded a video that explains how to publish a Vue component as a package
If you're like me, you have a handful of useful Vue components you use between different projects. Many times I've wanted to publish an individual Vue component to NPM for myself and others to access more easily.
Read more [calebporzio.com]
This year Laracon AU was held for the very first time. According to what I read on Twitter Michael Dyrynda did an awesome job organising it.
The organisation was so kind to record all talks. They are now available on YouTube. You'll find all talks in this playlist.
Below you can see the talk titled "Abusing Laravel for Fun and Profit" by David Hemphill
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…
Q: how many api calls do you need to do in #PHP to determine if the ☀️ is up?
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) November 14, 2018
A: 0 pic.twitter.com/glaZQZ4mQ9
Let's take a look at how you can define routes to controllers in Laravel. By default you can do it like this: Route::get('my-route', 'MyController@index'); This will look for the MyController class in the App\Http\Controllers namespace. This default namespace is set up in Laravel's…
The past few years I visited and spoke at a lot of PHP conferences. PHP Benelux, Laracon EU and US, PHP UK Conference, PHP World are only a few of the conferences I thoroughly enjoyed. Visiting those conferences can be recommended to anyone interested in PHP. Regardless of which level you're at…
There are three ways of loading relationships in Laravel. Tim MacDonald, a freelance dev based in Sydney, explains them all.
It is often useful to show the number of related models a given instance has, but not actually need any specific information about the related models, just how many exist. In this scenario you do not want to load all of the related models into memory to count them, we want our database to do the heavy lifting for us. Laravel offers a number of ways to retrieve relationship counts.
Read more [timacdonald.me]