Brent wrote another nice post on PHP. This time on the upcoming typed hints feature of PHP 7.4.
Typed class properties were added in PHP 7.4 and provide a major improvement to PHP's type system. These changes are fully opt-in and backwards compatible. In this post we'll look at the feature in-depth.
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In the project that @freekmurze and I are working on, I needed the ability to replicate an existing Eloquent model into a different Eloquent model.
— Marcel Pociot ? (@marcelpociot) June 12, 2019
If you feel like this could be useful for you as well, here's the little trait for that:https://t.co/IXFpAsxE35 pic.twitter.com/fCccKmLdQs
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Imagine you're building that your app can notify your user, but you don't want to send more than one notification in a timeframe of five seconds. How are you going to test the time aspect? Do you have to create a test that takes five minutes?
Ire Aderinokun, Front-End Developer and User Interface Designer, explains how you can Lighthouse in CI.
Until recently, I also hadn't setup an official performance budget and enforced it. This isn’t to say that I never did performance audits. I frequently use tools like PageSpeed Insights and take the feedback to make improvements. But what I had never done was set a list of metrics that I needed the site to meet, and enforce them using some automated tool.
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Matthias Noback wrote down some thoughts on the Laravel container
Laravel's service container looks great. I like the idea that it can figure things out mostly by itself. I like that it's PHP-based, and that its syntax is quite compact. I think that most of the convenience functions (e.g. resolve()) and exotic options (like $this->app->resolving()) should be ignored. The best thing you can do for your application in the long term is to let all your services use dependency injection, and to inject only constructor arguments. This keeps things simple, but also portable to other frameworks with other dependency injection containers, or other architectural styles, when the time is there.
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If you're debugging an array or an object, try console.table() instead of console.log()! It gives you a muuuuch better visual representation of the data in the console ? pic.twitter.com/5V9TCsBiOK
— Erin ? (@erinfranmc) June 10, 2019
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Taylor Otwell gave a Q&A session at the Laravel Live UK conference. You can watch most of the session in the video below. At the end Taylor showed the audience something special. It's not included in the video at his request, you had to be there.
LIVE on #Periscope https://t.co/OasiVowbV8
— Freek Van der Herten ? (@freekmurze) June 10, 2019
My colleague Brent wrote another excellent blog post, this time on tests and types.
So while strong types can help us to ensure program correctness, some tests will always be a necessity to ensure business correctness. It's a matter of "both and", not "either or".
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I wrote 5 lines of bash code to quickly run #Laravel's scheduler, without having to set up CRON jobs on your dev machine ⏳ Copy-paste the snippet here: https://t.co/PQzn6vd3SF pic.twitter.com/HzOLSqMGvc
— Alex (@AlexVanderbist) June 10, 2019
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Nuno Maduro, engineer at Algolia, explains what is the value of the @internal tag
The PHP @internal tag can be used to denote that the associated class/method is internal to the library. It's supported by PHPStorm and it warns people that those classes/methods are not meant to be used
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Konstantin Kudryashov, one of the speakers at the upcoming Full Stack Europe conference, makes the case for sharing new insights early.
When you build new feature as a team, and it requires a lot of new learning, do not hoard new knowledge in your head. Instead, incrementally commit each unit of learning into working code. Hide that partial logic behind a feature flag. The feature would be incomplete, but work-in-progress outputs will expose meaningful and demonstrable progress. To increase team’s awareness of outputs, add links into the feature tracker or documentation.
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It's funny that even something as simple as a blog app is never finished. One and a half years ago, I did a significant update my moving my blog from WordPress to a Laravel app. In August of last year, I also ditched my custom admin section in favor of Nova. Even though not that much time has passed, it was time for a refresh of the entire blog.
My colleague Brent offers some insights on a big project we're currently working on at Spatie.
The month May marks the first year anniversary of a client project I've been working on at Spatie. I thought it useful to share some statistics with the community, and give you a feeling of what a "real life web project" might look like.
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Bram Van Damme explains how you can get autocompletion for most composer commands.
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Here's a talk by Mark Seeman that explains the differences between object oriented and functional programming.
Joe Watkins, core contributor and pthreads author, is working on a new threading API for PHP called parallel. It might be a while before it is released.
Recently, I set to work on a new threading API, named Parallel, it is not an exact clone of any existing threading API, it is an API focused on being simple and hiding the complexity inherent in utilising parallelism in your application, it is also focused on being forward compatible with the JIT, for that day when we can actually execute machine code in userland and in parallel.
https://blog.krakjoe.ninja/2019/02/parallel-php-next-chapter.html
EDIT: meanwhile a stable version has been released. You can find it in this repo on GitHub.
?? Laravel Core Adventures - Did you know?
— Christoph Rumpel ? (@christophrumpel) May 17, 2019
Ever wondered what "hydrate" means? I've been there. Then I realized it's just a fancy word for filling an object with data.
In this Eloquent Builder example, Laravel fills a new collection object with models from an array. pic.twitter.com/D5t0EVnksM
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I always knew the browser was pretty smart about dealing with what I thought was incomplete HTML, but I didn't know the HTML5 spec actually defined a bunch of tags as optional ?
— Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) May 18, 2019
Google actually recommends writing your HTML this way:https://t.co/t3fu98s5IM pic.twitter.com/v2RAr5Whl9
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