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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…
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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…
Today we released a new package called image that makes manipulation images in PHP extremely easy. In this post I'd like to explain why we built it and how it can be used. Manipulating images in PHP To manipulate images in PHP there are already a lot of options. You can go hardcore and use the Gd or…
Apart from our open source work, we do client work at Spatie as well. Over the years we've learned that one of the most critical moments of a project is when it is going live. No matter how you confident you are about the correctness of the code base there are so many big and little things that…
Twitter provides a streaming API with which you can do interesting things such as listen for tweets that contain specific strings or actions a user might take (e.g. liking a tweet, following someone,...). In this post you'll learn an easy way to work with that API. Phirehose When researching on how…
Out of the box Laravel comes with a few commands to migrate the database. One of them is migrate:refresh. That one will first run the down-steps for all your migrations and then run all the up steps. After that process your database should have the same structure as specified in your migrations. But…
For a project we're working on at Spatie we're expecting high traffic. That's why we spent some time researching how to improve the request speed of a Laravel application and the amount of requests a single server can handle. There are many strategies and services you can use to speed up a site. In…