Keep controllers clean by using form requests in Laravel original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
Originals — posts I've written myself.
Exploring Event Sourcing (part 2) original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
In this stream my colleague Brent and I continued our conversation about the foundations of event sourcing. This time we showed a shopping cart that we've built using Laravel and event sourcing.
If you're interested in learning more about event sourcing, be sure to check out our upcoming course on using event sourcing in Laravel.
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A lightweight solution for running PHP code concurrently original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
Our team released a new package called spatie/fork. Using this package you can easily execute multiple pieces of code concurrently.
Laravel Worldwide Meetup #8: Using Vite in Laravel & How to optimize your DB indexes original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
Here's the recording of Laravel Wordwide Meetup #8. My guests for this edition were Kai Sassnowski talking on the importance of DB indexes, and Sebastian De Deyne on how to use Vite in Laravel.
How Flare's GitHub integration works under the hood original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
Last week, my colleague Ruben and I launched a major new feature at Flare: there's a new integration with GitHub that makes it possible to:
- create a GitHub issue directly on a Flare error
- associate a GitHub issue with a Flare error by mentioning a Flare URL in the GitHub issue
- automatically resolve an error on Flare when you close the GitHub issue
- automatically close a GitHub issue when you resolve an error in Flare
In this stream, Ruben and I will show you how you can use this integration and how it works under the hood.
Easily test large chunks of output using snapshots original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
Injecting extra data in the payload of queued jobs in Laravel original
by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read – Edit
I'm proud to announce yet another package by our team: spatie/laravel-interacts-with-payload. This one, which was inspired by a blog post by James Brooks, can inject data in all your jobs with just one line of code.
In this video, you'll see the package in action, I explain the internals and the tests. If you prefer reading, continue below the video.
Controlling the flow of time in your tests original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
Our test-time package makes writing tests, for code that makes its decisions based on the current time, very easy.
Here's how we use the package for some tests in Mailcoach.
A lightweight Laravel package to track changes over time original
by Alex Vanderbist and Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read – Edit
I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called spatie/laravel-stats. This package is a lightweight solution for summarizing changes in your database over time.
Data Transfer Object v3 has been released original
by Brent Roose and Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read – Edit
We've released a new major version of spatie/data-transfer-object. This package makes it easy to create objects that have a certain shape. Properties can even be validated.
🐘 Need self-validating PHP objects? Here you go!https://t.co/osPCSr0qu8
— Freek Van der Herten 🎆 (@freekmurze) April 2, 2021
Gotta love PHP 8
Very nice work by @brendt_gd pic.twitter.com/Sn1mS7R8Sv
In this post I'd like to tell you more the package.
Handling console signals in Laravel original
by Freek Van der Herten – 7 minute read – Edit
When you cancel a long-running artisan command with Ctrl+C, a SIGINT signal is sent by the operating system to the PHP process. You can use this signal to perform some cleanup quickly.
Symfony 5.2 introduced support for handling signals in commands.
We've released a package called spatie/laravel-signal-aware-commands that provides a substantial improvement to how you can use these signals in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
Creating a Laravel package from scratch original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
In this stream, you'll see me lay the foundations for the spatie/laravel-signal-aware-command package.
Why and how you should remove inactive users and teams original
by Freek Van der Herten – 8 minute read – Edit
There are many SaaS applications that allow potential new customers to try out the service using a trial period. Of course, not everybody will convert. After the trial period is over, some people will not use the service anymore. However, if nothing is being done about it, their email address and…
Mailcoach v4 has been released: drip campaigns, automations, mail templates and much more original
by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read – Edit
I'm proud to announce that Mailcoach v4 has been released. Mailcoach already was a great solution to send out bulk emails affordably. With an entirely refreshed UI and new capabilities, Mailcoach now becomes a more powerful platform for all things email:
- send out regular email campaigns with a provider of your choice
- create drip campaigns and send automated emails based on the activity of your audience
- administer and log transactional emails from your application.
We've also rewritten our extensive documentation.
In this blog post, I'd like to give you a tour of everything Mailcoach can do.
Laravel WorldWide Meetup #7: signing in with Laravel and how the Laracon Online website was built original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
Here's a recording of the Laravel Worldwide Meetup #7.
Miguel Piedrafita talked about the various options of signing in with Laravel. After that, Caneco shared some of the secrets behind the Laracon Online website.
Execute Artisan commands on remote servers original
by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read – Edit
Using the newly released spatie/laravel-remote package, you can quickly execute Artisan commands on a remote server.
Here's an example that will clear the cache on the remote server.
php artisan remote cache:clear
In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it!
Building a Laravel package from scratch original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
In this streaming session, you can see me build up the package from scratch. You can find the code seen in the stream in the spatie/laravel-remote repo on GitHub. If you want to learn how to build PHP and Laravel packages, consider purchasing our Laravel Package Training video course.
Introducing monthly playlists from team Spatie original
by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read – Edit
At Spatie, each one of our team members loves music. Scattered across our office are a couple of HomePods. Everyone in our team is free to stream his favourite music for others to hear (of course at an acceptable volume so everyone can still work).
This is a great way to discover music. In my mind, any automated algorithm that picks music for you is trumped what your friends and peers suggest to you.
Because of the pandemic, this way of sharing music with each other was lost. That's why our team will from now on create monthly playlists. The process is easy: every month we will choose a theme for the playlist and each team member picks two or three tracks.
The first theme is "Late Night Something" (it's not "late night coding" because not everyone on our team codes.
Here's our playlist on Apple Music. And here is the same playlist on Spotify.
Here's at the Spotify embed so you can listen from your browser too.
A practical look at multi tenancy in Laravel original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
In this talk, given at Laracon Online 2020, I show a simple strategy to make any Laravel app tenant aware using our laravel-multitenancy package.
Debug apps running on remote servers using Ray original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
Earlier this year, we released Ray, a desktop app that allows you to debug faster. Instead of dumping values to the browser or console, Ray allows you to display debugging information beautifully in a dedicated window.
Since launch, Ray helps you debug local projects. Today, we're adding the most requested feature to Ray: the ability to connect to remote servers. All output of the ray() call, will be sent securely from your remote server to the local app via SSH.
Using this feature, you can quickly investigate problems on your production servers that you are unable to recreate locally.
In this short video you'll see a quick demo!
