On the Laravel News blog, Tim MacDonald wrote a nice collection of tips on how to make PHPUnit tests run faster.
Having a fast test suite can be just as important as having a fast application. As a developer, getting feedback quickly about the state of your code allows for a much quicker development turnaround. Here we are going to run through some tips you can implement today to make your tests run faster.
Read more [laravel-news.com]
PHP 7.4, which will be released around December 2019, will bring a couple of nice features such as typed properties, preloading, improved type variance, ... In a new post on his blog my colleague Brent gives a nice overview of what to expect
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Laracon Online 2018 was held last year in February. It featured cool talks by Chris Fidao, Wes Bos and of course Laravel creator Taylor Otwell. In tandem with the start of the ticketsales of the 2019 edition, the videos of the 2018 edition have been released.
Watch them all here:
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One of the smallest pieces of middleware I've written, but feels a lot cleaner to abstract it instead of having these implementation details in a controller pic.twitter.com/AR3vOMKMM9
— Sebastian De Deyne (@sebdedeyne) January 8, 2019
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In this video tutorial Andre Madarang gives a clear intro in how to use GraphQL in a Laravel app. The packages he uses are Lighthouse and vue-appolo.
laravel-backup is a Laravel package that can backup your application. It can create a zip containing a dump of your database together with other files that you can select. Using the power of Laravel's filesystem abstraction this zip can than be uploaded to one or more remote filesystems. The package…
When adding a form to a public site, there's a risk that spam bots will try to submit it with fake values. We recently released a new package, called laravel-honeypot, that can detect these spammy requests. How honeypots work The majority of spam bots are pretty dumb. You can thwart most of them by…
? You can use array destructuring to swap values between variables pic.twitter.com/dxdIipgE1M
— Brandon Dail (@aweary) December 28, 2018
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Kent C. Dodds wrote a cool post how an upcoming React feature, called Hooks, works on the hood.
React’s upcoming useState hook relies on array destructuring, let’s dive in and see how that feature works.
https://blog.kentcdodds.com/react-hooks-array-destructuring-fundamentals-952fbfd57ea
Christopher Rumpel launched a new video series on how Laravel works on the hood.
Laravel Core Adventures is a video series which explains how Laravel works under the hood. You will get several videos on different difficulty levels to learn about each topic. The first videos below are about the Laravel request lifecycle. Expect more to come when the full site is released in early 2019.
TIL: $PIPESTATUS lets you access the exit code of a command used in a series of pipes in Bash pic.twitter.com/eRVrPQwnve
— Mattias Geniar (@mattiasgeniar) January 2, 2019
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In this fantastic talk given at the uncon of Laracon EU 2018, Chris Brown gives many actionable tips for aspiring and experienced speakers.
Now that 2018 is coming to a close, a lot of awesome people have written a recap post. Here's mine! The most significant change on a personal level is that my girlfriend an I bought a house in Ghent. Together with our two kids, we moved this summer, and we now live in an awesome house that's very…
Over at the Oh Dear! blog, my buddy Mattias described how we use Gitlab CI to test our app.
That's why we're releasing our Gitlab CI pipeline that is optimized for Laravel applications. It contains all the elements you'd expect: building (composer, yarn & webpack), database seeding, PHPUnit & copy/paste (mess) detectors & some basic security auditing of our 3rd party dependencies.
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In an application I was working on I wanted to implement automated tweets. Of course, this logic should also be tested. In this blogpost I'd like to show you how you can easily handcraft your own mocks. Setting things up Let's first take a look at how you can tweet something in PHP. We're going to…
Want to upgrade to the PHP release? Here are some instructions written down by Colin O' Dell.
PHP 7.3 has been released, bringing some great new features to the language such as trailing commas in function calls, throwing errors when JSON parsing fails, array_key_first() / array_key_last() functions, and much more! Here's a brief guide on how to install PHP 7.3 on Linux, Windows, and OS X:
Implementing the change-password-url spec in Laravel (aka: it's really dead simple) https://t.co/ow1PNMqecy pic.twitter.com/kTJK6Jq5rn
— /dev/eloper (@mattiasgeniar) December 7, 2018
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In a post on Laravel News, Tim MacDonald shares how you can use our valuestore package to power a settings function.
I really like the simplicity this package introduces to enable you to store some loose values. I’ve always felt storing this kind of data in the database with some sort of key / value pair setup was never quite right.
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Dennis Smink wrote a nice post on how you can use our backup package to backup your application to Google Drive. He includes all steps necessary to authenticate with Google Drive.
Backups are important, period. You will be needing these once your server or server provider suddenly dies. In this tutorial I will cover how to setup Google Drive backup, with Spatie’s backup package, Googles Flysystem and Laravel.
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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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