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Browsershot is a package that can easily convert any webpage into a image. Under the hood the conversion is made possible new headless options in Chrome 59. In this post I'd like to show you how you can use Browsershot v2. Here's a quick example of how it can be used:…
At Spatie we have a tv screen against the wall that displays a dashboard. This dashboard displays the tasks our team should be working on, important events in the near future, which music is playing at our office, and so on. Here's what it looks like: We've opensourced our dashboard, so you can view…
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Today we released our newest Vue component called vue-table-component. It aims to be a very easy to use component to make tables filterable and sortable. In this post I'd like to tell you all about it. Why creating yet another table component? Let's first touch upon why we created it. To make lists…
Welcome to part 5 of a series on how to test a Vue component. Here's the table of contents of the series: Starting out with tests The first test and snapshot testing Creating an instance of a component More tests and faking time Jest awesomeness and a skeleton to get started (you're here) Jest watch…
Welcome to part 4 of a series on how to test a Vue component. Here's the table of contents of the series: Starting out with tests The first test and snapshot testing Creating an instance of a component More tests and faking time (you're here) Jest awesomeness and a skeleton to get started More tests…
Welcome to part 3 of a series on how to test a Vue component. Here's the table of contents of the series: Starting out with tests The first test and snapshot testing Creating an instance of a component (you're here) More tests and faking time Jest awesomeness and a skeleton to get started Creating…
Welcome to part 2 of a series on how to test a Vue component. Here's the table of contents of the series: Starting out with tests The first test and snapshot testing (you're here) Creating an instance of a component More tests and faking time Jest awesomeness and a skeleton to get started Setting up…
Recently we released vue-tabs-component, a simple Vue component to render a tabular interface. If you want to know more about to the component itself I suggest you head to the introductory post on it. Like with the vast majority of our open source work this package comes with tests. In this series…
Last week my company released a vue-tabs-component, a quality Vue component to easily display tabs. You can view a demo of the component here. In this post I'd like to tell you all about it. Why we created it If you're just want to know what the component does, skip to the next section. Nearly all…
Laravel's tinker command allows to run any code you want as if you are inside your Laravel app. But if you want to run a single line of code if can be a bit bothersome. You must start up tinker, type the code, press enter, and quit tinker. Our new spatie/laravel-artisan-dd package contains an…
Last year on 28th of June Dropbox deprecated v1 of their API. On the same date this year they will turn off all v1 endpoints. If you're using Flysystem, Laravel or the official PHP SDK to work with Dropbox, it's the time to update. Last week my company released a Dropbox API client and a Flysystem…
Hi, how are you? I'm fine thanks! How are you? I saw you released another package last week. Yup yup, you mean laravel-html, right? It was actually coded up by my colleague Sebastian, who did an awesome job. But why put out yet another html generator? Html generation is a solved problem, right? Yes,…
In the PHP ecosystem we're blessed with so many people blogging about their favourite language. Everyday new interesting content on PHP gets posted somewhere on the web. Visiting each blog separately to see if new content has been posted is quite tedious. Luckily this problem has been solved long…
A few months ago I installed a command line utility called hub. I'm really fond of it. It's aim is to make it easier to interact with GitHub from the commandline. It's a wrapper around the standard git command. Once it's installed you can do stuff like this (take from the manual page) # clone your…
Last week our team released a new package called laravel-db-snapshots. It provides a few artisan commands to quickly dump and load a database. We've built this for is to help us develop features in an app that require the database to be in a specific state. With this package we can take a dump of…
Imagine you're building an single page application that has a couple of forms. How are you going to validate those forms? Because we don't want to refresh the page submitting the form as usual isn't possible. Adding validation logic to the JavaScript side of things would just duplicate the…
We all dream of servers that need no maintenance at all. But unfortunately in reality this is not the case. Disks can get full, processes can crash, the server can run out of memory... Last week our team released a server monitor package written in PHP that keeps an eye on the health of all your…
All our packages are MIT-licensed. But if you use our stuff and want to make us happy, we highly appreciate a postcard from your hometown. This suggestion is mentioned in all readme's of our packages We've been asking for postcards for quite some time now and have built up a nice collection. Today,…
A little known helper function, called tap was added to Laravel 5.3. In this short post I'll explain how this function can be used. Let's first take a look at the tap function itself. It's actually a very short one. function tap($value, $callback) { $callback($value); return $value; } So you give it…
In this post I'd like to share some of the packages that make developing a Laravel app easier. laravel-debugbar This package really needs no introduction as it is one of the most popular packages around. It's made by Barry Vd. Heuvel and it's a real powerhouse. Once the package is installed it…
