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While attending Laracon India, many people approached me to ask how we handle the maintenance of all our Spatie packages. One of the ways we keep maintenance burden low is by making our packages customizable. In this blog post, I'd like to cover some of our best tips to make a Laravel package easy…
Christoph and I did another casual artisan call do talk about what's been keeping us busy.
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We've released a new package called Laravel Notification Log. True to its name, it will log when your Laravel app sends notifications. It also contains helpful methods to determine when notifications were sent.
In Oh Dear, we recently added the ability to create fine-grained API tokens that are scoped by a model. Behind the scenes, it uses Laravel Sanctum to create and verify abilities.
In this blog post, I'd like to give you a peek behind the scenes and show how we set this up.
Original – – mailcoach.app
One way to teach your audience the features you offer is by creating a drip campaign about all the features your platform offers. Better knowledge of all features hopefully leads to better conversion rates.
Read more [mailcoach.app]
I'm happy to announce that we've released another new package: spatie/laravel-help-space. This one makes it easy to populate a custom sidebar in HelpSpace with the data from your Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
We've released a new package called spatie/laravel-deleted-models. When deleting a model, this package will copy over its attributes to a table called deleted_models.
You can view this package as a "Recycle bin for models".
In this post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
Laravel 9 introduced a new way to create custom validation rules: invokable rules. It allows you to write a custom validation rule with only one method: __invoke.
Livewire is an amazing piece of technology. It is extensively used in two products I work on: Oh Dear and Mailcoach Cloud.
In this post, I'd like to show you a simple technique where Livewire can help to improve your initial page load time significantly.
Google Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. It has audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO, and more.
Our newest package, spatie/lighthouse-php makes it easy to run Lighthouse using PHP. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
Now that PHP 8.2 has been released, it's time to upgrade the PHP of your Mac.
If you're using Brew - which you probably are - there are only a few steps involved.
I'm proud to share that we've released two new packages: spatie/laravel-mailcoach-mailer (for Laravel apps) and spatie/mailcoach-mailer (for all other PHP based apps).
Using these two packages, you can send transactional mail through Mailcoach Cloud.
In this blog post, I'd like to share how you can use these packages and how they work under the hood.
Original – – mailcoach.app
Here's how we use the Shadow DOM to ensure layout from page doesn't affect the layout of a component.
Read more [mailcoach.app]
We published a fun series of videos as a promo for our Black Friday sales. These videos are inspired by the more recent apple announcement videos. Let's take a look behind the scenes to see how they were made! The WWSD videos We used WWSD to name our week of Black Friday discounts. It stands for…
🏎️💨 Here's another WWSD video to promote the 50% discount we'll have today on Laravel Comments and Media Library Ppro. All other spatie product are discounted 30%.
We made a fun intro video to celebrate our Black Friday sales.
TLDR: All Spatie products are discounted 30% for a week, Mailcoach is discounted 50% only today.
I love Twitter and I will be there until the ship goes down. Unfortunately, there are some strong signals that it may go away for a while or even permanently. I surely hope it doesn't come to that.
Through years of curating people to follow, I've built a very nice, positive group of people I admire and get inspired by. If Twitter goes down, I want to stay following these people (in a non-creepy way, rest assured). That's why I've already created a Mastadon account, and am looking around for the positive Laravel and PHP vibes there.
We've made a fun video to announce Spatie's Black Friday sales. Have a look!
PHP 8.2 has been released. It is a minor release compared to 8.0 and 8.1. This can be partly attributed to the departure of Nikita Popov as one of the most significant contributors to the PHP language. The PHP language has a lot of maintainers and isn't built by one person, but Nikita was one of the most active of them. Features like union types, typed properties, named arguments, and arrow functions, to name a few, were all added by Nikita.
