Implementing event sourcing: aggregates original
Recently we've released v2 of laravel-event-projector. The package is probably the easiest way to get started with event sourcing in Laravel.
One of the prominent new features is support for aggregates. While creating v2, I found it surprising that such a powerful concept could be implemented in so little code. In this short blog post, I'd like to explain how aggregates are coded up.
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When to use Gate::after in Laravel original
In a Laravel app policies are a great way to organize authorization logic that revolves around models.
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Sometimes, a segfault happens, but you don’t know where, and your PHP installation does not have tools to find it. Or sometime, you think PHP is hanging, but you don’t know where. You may use xdebug, but you don’t want to click so many times on the « next call » button.
Read more [jolicode.com]
Access related data in Eloquent using an IDE friendly way
?? Laravel Core Adventures - Did you know?
— Christoph Rumpel ? (@christophrumpel) April 17, 2019
In Laravel, we can access related data as if we would call a class property. But in fact, this is just a shortcut/hack for using the relationship method we have defined.
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Read more [stitcher.io]
An important security release for laravel-query-builder original
Our laravel-query-builder package exposed a serious security issue: it allowed SQL injection attacks. Laravel Query Builder v1.17.1, which is now available, fixes the vulnerability. If you're using the package, stop reading now and upgrade to the latest version first. For Laravel 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8…
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A short and sweet article by my colleague Seb.
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Laravel event projector v2 has been released original
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In this blogpost I'd like to explain a potential problem with traditionally built applications. After that we'll take a look at what projectors and aggregates are. Finally we'll walk through an example how you can create an aggregate laravel-event-projector.
Isset can accept multiple variables
It's a minor thing but PHP's `isset` can accept multiple vars which will allow you to simplify your code. ? pic.twitter.com/GBgYEDSOya
— Eric L. Barnes (@ericlbarnes) April 4, 2019
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Read more [ma.ttias.be]
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I'm a happy prettier user to keep my CSS and JavaScript files consistent. However, it's hard to keep the discipline to run Prettier before every commit. This week I decided to automate the process with Husky and lint-staged.
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20 unknown gems of Laravel
KH. Jebran Ali lists a few cool Laravel tricks
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Super simple start to serverless
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The PHP UK videos have been released
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You can watch all other talks in this playlist on YouTube.
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