Explaining the code on the "Go with PHP" website
Link – – themsaid.com
Mohamed write a nice post featuring a lot of good tips on how to make your code readable.
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Encapsulating Polymorphism
Link – – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
In this post, Andrew presents several patterns in polymorphic database relationships in Laravel that allow us to eliminate conditionals.
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Introducing DropBlockEditor
Link – – vanrossum.dev - submitted by Jeffrey van Rossum
DropBlockEditor, a drag and drop editor made with Livewire, is now available in pre release. This article tells you more about it and gives you an idea of how you could use it.
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Publishing Prometheus metrics in Laravel apps
Link – – fly.io - submitted by Chris Fidao
You can instrument your Laravel apps by having it publish Prometheus metrics. With the help of Prometheus, you can use Grafana to create dashboards and alerts to monitor your apps.
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Packagist.org maintainer account takeover
Link – – blog.packagist.com
Scary stuff, but handled very well by the Packagist team.
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Laravel Worldwide Meetup: Introducing Laravel Splade - Quick Wins in Laravel
Here's the recording of the Laravel Worldwide Meetup which was held last week.
"Contact app" a Laravel for Beginners course
Link – – www.youtube.com - submitted by Bert De Swaef
The entire playlist of our Laravel for Beginners course. You'll learn about model, controllers, factories, seeders, relations and many more.
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Advanced Git Magic
Here's the recording of a cool talk by Pauline Vos given at Full Stack Europe 2022. In this talk she shares a couple of cool things you can do with Git.
Together with my buddies Dries and Rias, I'm already organising the next edition of Full Stack Europe, which will be held in October 2023 in Antwerp, Belgium. You can get your early bird tickets on our website.
Invoice PDF Generation With Browsershot
Link – – fly.io - submitted by Johannes Werbrouck
Invoicing is boring and manually writing up invoices even more so, that's why you should automate the entire process in your app. Here, I show you how to use Spatie’s wonderful Browsershot package to do just that.
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Saying goodbye to WIP commit messages
There are two kinds of developers: those that write commit messages and value a repo's history and those that don't. I'm in the latter camp: most of my commit messages just read "WIP", much to the chagrin of some of my colleagues. I've tried to change my ways, but I just can't get into the habit of writing good commit messages.
But now I have a solution: I use the power of AI to write my commit messages for me. In this blog post, I'll show you how I did it.
Automatically clear Ray when running tests via PHPUnit or Pest
Original – – myray.app
Learn how to automatically clear Ray's screen when running a test
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Chrome DevTools tricks that deserve a spotlight
Link – – utilitybend.com
There are a few tricks in Chrome DevTools that don’t seem to get enough attention.
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On fixed price projects
Link – – mikeveerman.substack.com
Playing software development on Nightmare difficulty
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Load Balancing explained
Link – – samwho.dev
An excellent blog post with clear visual examples on how the most command load balancing strategies work.
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Laravel Real-Time Notifications with SSE
Link – – blog.oussama-mater.me - submitted by Oussama Mater
This article shows how to implement real-time notifications using Server-Sent Events instead of WebSockets or Long Polling.
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Managing files using Laravel's scoped driver
Link – – innocenzi.dev - submitted by Enzo Innocenzi
Back in september 2022, a new "scoped" filesystem driver has been introduced to Laravel. This article shows how to use it to improve file management and refactoring.
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Tricks for Running Commands With Laravel Process
Link – – fly.io - submitted by Chris Fidao
Use Laravel's new Process facade while avoiding issues related to processing stdout vs stderr output, environment variables, and PHP security settings.
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How to delay Laravel jobs and listeners within database transactions
Link – – arunas.dev - submitted by Arunas
If you have jobs and listeners being fired within database transactions, it can lead to data inconsistencies if the transaction rolls back. Learn how to properly handle them here.
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Sit Down with Freek Van der Herten
Link – - submitted by Bert De Swaef
Here's a fun interview I did with Bert.
Laravel Analytics v5 with support for GA4 has been released
We've released a new major version of our Laravel Analytics package. The most important new feature of this release is the support for GA4.