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That being said, here are the links of this edition of the newsletter. Enjoy!
⭐️ Using Laravel Vite to automatically refresh your browser when changing a Blade file
You can use Laravel's shiny new vite-plugin to automatically refresh your browser when saving a Blade file.
This will save you a lot of time.
⭐️ Making Vite and Valet play nice together
When I tried to use Vite for the first time, I stumbled upon a few issues. Here's how I solved them.
⭐️ Using the `Attachable` interface to attach any kind of object to a mail in a Laravel app
Laravel 9 has gained a excellent new way to attach files in mails. Here's how we are using it in Media Library
A Laravel package to onboard your users
Caleb Porzio has created an onboard package for Laravel which we (at Spatie) recently took over development and maintenance on.
Highlighting code using Sidecar & Shiki
Shiki is a beautiful syntax highlighter powered by the same language engine that many code editors use.
We've just released a package that allows you to run Shiki on AWS Lambda through Sidecar.
Introducing sidecar-browsershot
A short introduction to sidecar-browsershot package: How it works and for what it can be used for.
Upgrading to native PHP enums
Tomas Votruba explains how you can refactor old enum classes (from Spatie and MyCLabs) to native PHP enums
How to use Stripe CLI with Laravel Valet to listen for events
Use the Stripe CLI with Laravel Valet to listen to webhooks locally.
Variadic arguments in PHP
A good overview what you can do with variadic arguments...
Good developer experience examples
A nice list of things to keep in mind when writing software or documentation.
What’s the best lossless image format?
What’s the best lossless image format? Comparing PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL
Ten Tips to Make Conference Talks Suck Less
These tips are also useful for any kind of presentation, whether on a conference, or an internal presentation for your company.
New UUID formats
There are a couple of nice ideas there to solve longstanding problems with UUIDs
Linked Lists explained in PHP
Linked lists are a linear data structure that provides quick insertion and deletion.
Building social images with Browsershot and AWS
Creating social images for your website is super simple using Browsershot and AWS Lambda.
Add Interfaces to Laravel to Increase Code Readability and Verbosity
Personally I don't know if this is a good practice, but you (and future me) might like it.
Adding a Laravel backend to a Remix App
Dave Calnan has been using Remix in production for about 6 months now and has decided to add a Laravel backend
to the stack. Here's what he's learned from the process.
Community links
In this section you'll find links submitted by others.
Let me know if you did write or stumbled across a blog post, tutorial or video that might be interesting to appear in this section
How to use Laravel Facades safely (submitted by Arunas)
Implementing external APIs (in Laravel) (submitted by Kristina Odziomkova)
Adding "Suggested Posts" to My Laravel Blog (submitted by Ryan Chandler)
How To Implement Laravel Dynamic Scheduling (submitted by Ian Kumu)
Laravel Hide Id from URLs: A Simple Implementation (submitted by Ian Kumu)
Extending Laravel Vapor to remove secret size limits (submitted by atymic)
How to use different Tailwind CSS configs with Laravel Mix (submitted by Ralph J. Smit)
Laravel DB Sync (submitted by David Carr)
Macros in Laravel (submitted by Ryan Chandler)
How to migrate a Laravel Inertia Vue app to Vite (submitted by Tim Geisendörfer)
Old posts
Here are a couple of links from a while ago!
No, Utility Classes Aren't the Same As Inline Styles
Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years
Saying Goodbye To Typo CI
Dear Future Me: I Am Not Alone
Clever vs insightful code
Optimizing Vue for Speed, Performance, and Core Web Vitals
Organizing Miscellaneous Utility Functions
Runtime (Big O) Of Laravel's One-Of-Many Relationship
Automatically fix PHP and JS code style problems on GitHub PRs
How to compile PHP from Source
How to Dynamically Update Twitter Cover Image to Show Latest Followers
Setting up and securing a private Composer repository
What about config builders?
Laravel Transporter, how to make OOP API requests
Laracasts now is an Inertia powered SPA
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