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Exciting times in PHP land. Nikita Popov, Levi Morrison and Bob Weinand have officially proposed a concrete implementation for arrow functions.

Anonymous functions in PHP can be quite verbose, even when they only perform a simple operation. Partly this is due to a large amount of syntactic boilerplate, and party due to the need to manually import used variables. This makes code using simple closures hard to read and understand. This RFC proposes a more concise syntax for this pattern. ... Short closures are critically overdue, and at some point we'll have to make a compromise here, rather than shelving the topic for another few years.

Let's hope this one gets accepted!

Read more [wiki.php.net]

In an impressive blog post on his blog, React lead developer Dan Abramov, explains how React works on the hood.

This is a deep dive — THIS IS NOT a beginner-friendly post. In this post, I’m describing most of the React programming model from first principles. I don’t explain how to use it — just how it works. It’s aimed at experienced programmers and folks working on other UI libraries who asked about some tradeoffs chosen in React. I hope you’ll find it useful!

React as a UI Runtime

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Our team at Spatie released new package called laravel-queuable-action. On his blog, my colleague Brent explains why we created it and how you can use it.

By introducing the concept of actions, we're able to separate responsibilities between classes better: jobs are used for data serialisation and executing tasks asynchronously; but they are not concerned with business logic anymore.

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Read more [stitcher.io]

In the first blogpost on his new blog, Mathias Hansen, co-creator of geocod.io, walks us through how he customized the look of macOS. ChunkWM seems particularly interesting.

ChunkWM neatly arranges all of the windows on my screen. skhd which me to define global hotkeys to control ChunkWM. Pecan (built on Übersicht) renders the neat status bar that you see at the top of the screen

Read more [www.codemonkey.io]

lol what a great definition of 'eventual consistency' pic.twitter.com/dUy6xq0UrW

— your friend myk (@mykola) March 1, 2019

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? Testing simple S3 uploads with randomized file names in Laravel? Use `Storage::fake` and real-time Facades. Handled. pic.twitter.com/LIBfHbLQxD

— HEMPHILL (@davidhemphill) March 12, 2019

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#Laravel tip of the day: if you want to find out which of your composer.json packages have released newer versions, just run "composer outdated". You will get a full list with all information. pic.twitter.com/2FOw39TBr4

— Laravel Daily (@DailyLaravel) March 6, 2019

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Here's an interesting approach to work with env variables proposed by Marijn Huizendveld

Frameworks offer tools to parameterize environments in a variety of ways. But because of this configuration files of projects tend to get messy once projects are taken into production. Specifying purpose of the parameter within the name can help identify unneeded configurations. Making configuration explicit within the application layer can be even more helpful. Doing so eases refactoring and provides potential to improve the overall developer experience.

Read more [marijn.huizendveld.com]

React lead Dan Abramov breaks down the statement "function components capture the rendered values". To me hooks seem like a very cool feature that'll make your react components much more easier to write.

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Povilas Korop explains how to use a raw groupBy in Laravel. Cool!

Read more [laraveldaily.com]

One great way to keep your @laravelphp test factories clean is by creating custom faker providers that you can use to create custom fake data, whenever you need to fake something that the built-in faker does not yet support. pic.twitter.com/kwwuevuUf9

— Marcel Pociot (@marcelpociot) March 5, 2019

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Matthias Noback makes the case for writting your own service containers.

Dependency injection is very important. Dependency injection containers are too. The trouble is with the tools, that let us define services in a meta-language, and rely on conventions to work well. This extra layer requires the "ambient information" Paul speaks about in his tweet, and easily lets us make mistakes that we wouldn't make if we'd just write out the code for instantiating our services.

Read more [matthiasnoback.nl]

Zander Nethercutt provides some great insights in the mechanisms in play that can lead to burnout.

When we see long weekends and think “work before play,” when we see Friday nights and think “sleep before clubs,” when we see escalators as accelerators and not opportunities to “just take a second,” we’re nothing more than hyperrational prisoners making a decision that would be inaccurately characterized as a dilemma because the answer is obvious.

Read more [medium.com]

I was quite surprised to learn that it could make sense to run PhpStorm on the server too.

Did you know that PHPStorm (or any other Jetbrains IDE) can run inspections from command line and generate XML files for the results? This is a great “hidden” feature of those IDEs and machine-readable output means it can be somehow integrated with a continuous integration (CI) process. So let’s do this!

Read more [www.christianscheb.de]

? Laravel tip: Use your defined Eloquent relationships when you Factory models.
This can save you many lines of code and make your tests much more eloquent.
Simply install this package: https://t.co/6XNeQZk40T pic.twitter.com/f4T5xayL5X

— Rasmus C Nielsen (@rasmuscnielsen) March 4, 2019

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Lorna Jane gives a good overview of the tools available when working on an API.

As Web Developers, we need to know how to work with HTTP from every angle. I gave a 2-hour tutorial at PHP UK that included some of my most trusted tools - but it was sold out and a bunch of people asked me if there was video (there wasn't, tutorials make little sense when videoed). Instead, I thought I'd try to set out a self-study version of the workshop (I rarely teach these days so I'm unlikely to deliver it anywhere else).

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Here's a neat trick for soft deleting relationships in @laravelphp. ?

When you delete a record, immediately also soft delete any child records. ?

Later, when you restore the parent, automatically also restore all child records that were deleted when the parent was deleted. ? pic.twitter.com/YsYKWtu00R

— Jonathan Reinink (@reinink) February 27, 2019

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The issue of whether there is a generalized sustainability crisis in open source is a contentious one, but that doesn’t obviate the need to find a solution for open source projects that do struggle to find funding and volunteers to support development. Whether these are marginal examples or a rising epidemic, the fact that they continue to work on open source projects in spite of this shortcoming is a testament to their dedication to the goals of the project and open source development more generally. Yet most developers are in agreement that if there are ways to sustainably fund the open source community, this will ultimately lead to even better software.

Read more [motherboard.vice.com]