Freek.dev

A list of personal top learning resources for PHP and Laravel developers and my personal journey of discovering them over the years.

It's quite common to keep tabs on when an authenticated user last used your web application. The information can be really useful when calculating software adoption, usage frequency and return rate.

A nice introduction to modern AOP in PHP.

The most popular breadcrumbs package has stopped developing and supporting. For this, I made a new one.

A package that lets you define the inverse relationship on hasMany relationships, resulting in the parent being loaded on the children, saving database queries.

“Static constructors” are a concept a lot of object-oriented programming languages support - although, unfortunately, PHP does not.

Update your Laravel application from any Git repository without dealing with Composer.

A tutorial on how to configure push deploys for Laravel apps using GitHub Actions, for free. Asset compilation on the server, no race conditions with code & DB schema being out of sync. Application is `down` for as short time as possible. Useful if you can configure webservers and don't want to pay for some service just to get push deploys.

PHP Mentors Book is a set of questions with topics that can help a lot of developers out there (Not just PHP). Answers from PHP masters around the world for your questions. Code, Career, Team work, Working environment, Logs, Tests, Future and much more.

In this two-part series, my colleague Freek and I will discuss the architecture of a project we're working on.

If you don't need a reactive UI, Alpine.js might still find it's place in your tech stack.

String concatenation is the current way we can pass arguments to Laravel middleware - but what if there was another way

Relay is a data transfer objects structure that allows you to consume third party API payloads and parse them into their proper type object throughout a promotion mapper to ensure given incoming data abides by its expected type.

A small package to leverage the TransIP Rest api package through this little wrapper.

Running a PHP application on AWS Fargate with Github Actions for deployment with Laraval as an example application. Ready-to-use scripts are provided in a Github repository.

[belamov/postgres-range](https://github.com/belamov/postgres-range) package provides suport of PostgreSQL's range types in your Laravel 7+ applications.

How to test Laravel validation rules to help you debug your application easier

Route Model Binding in Laravel is incredibly powerful, and a key skill in any PHP Developer's set. You can quickly build dynamic routes and pull data from the database with some simple type hints.

This is a lightweight package which allow you to manage a session in a stateless communication (REST/API) when the API domain and main web application domain are different.

In light of the discussion of last Friday I wrote a more longer piece on why I use Single Action Controllers and think that they are a thing of beauty.