Flare ❤️ GitLab original
– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie
An introduction to the Flare GitLab integration!
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How we built our GitLab integration original
– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie
A few days ago, we added a GitLab integration. In this blog post, we'll talk about the road to that integration and our struggles.
Read more [flareapp.io]
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Easily create PDFs in Laravel apps original
We’ve released a new package called spatie/laravel-pdf, a batteries-included package to generate PDFs in Laravel apps. Under the hood, it uses Chromium to generate PDFs from Blade views. You can use modern CSS features like grid, flexbox, and even frameworks like Tailwind to create beautiful PDFs.
In this post, I’d like to introduce and demonstrate the package.
New major versions for spatie/image and Laravel Media Library have been released original
We’ve released a new major version of spatie/image, v3. This package makes it very easy to manipulate images using PHP.
At the same time, we’ve also released a new major version of spatie/laravel-medialibrary. This is a powerhouse package that can associate all kinds of files with Eloquent models. The latest version of this package now uses spatie/image v3 under the hood for manipulating images.
In this blog post, I’ll explain why we made new major versions and how they can be used.
Spatie's Black Friday Deals original
Like every year, we have some Black Friday discounts at Spatie. We made fun video about it.
Creating my new album "Kind" original
This blog post will be a little different. I'm not going to write about programming as usual. Over the past few months, I have worked on my new album titled "Kind". You can listen to it on these platforms:
In this blog post, I'll share how this album was made from conception to release.
Video: the keynotes of Full Stack Europe 2022 original
Last year at Full Stack Europe we had two great keynotes by two amazing speakers: Jeremy Keith and Kevlin Henney. We're very happy that we can share the recordings with you.
Next month, we'll have a new edition of Full Stack Europe, you can purchase your tickets here. We have an excellent line-up featuring Justin Jackson, Una Kravets, and people that work at companies like Meta, Google, Netlify. If you're familiar with the Laravel community, you'll also probably recognize Kai Sassnowski, Tobias Petry, and a few others! Hope to see you at the conference!
Craft emails that look good in each email client using MJML original
In a perfect world, email clients can render HTML as good as major browsers. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Email clients don't support modern HTML and CSS niceties and have a lot of quirks to be mindful of. Making sure an HTML email looks good in the most used email clients takes a lot of work.
To make crafting HTML emails a lot more enjoyable, the folks at Mailjet created a solution called MJML, which stands for "Mailjet Markup Language." It's an easy-to-use abstraction layer over HTML.
We have created a new package called spatie/mjml-php to easily convert MJML to HTML using PHP. If you're using Sidecar, you'll be happy to know that we've also created a package called spatie/mjml-sidecar, to convert MJML to HTML using Sidecar.
In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
How we created those fancy animations on the Flare homepage original
Some fancy tricks are being used to achieve this.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Using Postmark Rebound to improve handling of bounced emails original
Whenever Oh Dear detects something wrong with your site, it can send you a notification. We have multiple channels available: Slack, Telegram, webhooks, and many more. The most popular channel our users use is just simple mail.
Behind the scenes, Oh Dear uses Postmark to send emails. Postmark will inform us whenever a notification mail results in a hard bounce. A hard bounce means that the mail won't be delivered. The most common reason for this is that the mailbox doesn't exist (anymore). This can occur when somebody changes jobs, and the work email address no longer exists.
Watch my Laracon US talk: Enjoying Laravel Data original
Here's a recording of my talk that I gave Laracon US in Nashville a week ago.
How to display a subscription confirmation message with CSS original
Here's a cool think you can do using the :target selector
Read more [mailcoach.app]
How we use CSS custom properties to customize your newsletter archive original
Here's an interesting technique that we use in Mailcoach.
Read more [mailcoach.app]
Visualising Laravel and Horizon metrics using Prometheus and Grafana original
I'm proud to announce that we've released a new package called spatie/laravel-prometheus. Using this package, you can send all sorts of metrics (user counts, subscription counts, queue workloads) around your Laravel to Prometheus and visualize the historical trends using Grafana.
Use ray()->trace() to figure out where a call came from original
An important problem of a programmer's productivity is finding his way through the code. A good project structure and your IDE can get you a long way, but sometimes it’s not enough.
Read more [myray.app]
Flare 2.0 has been launched! original
These past months, we've been busy redesigning our entire service. We're very proud to launch it today.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Flare and Ignition now offer AI-powered solutions original
Today, we're adding AI-powered solutions to Flare. This means we can suggest a solution for almost any error: the AI will likely suggest a helpful suggestion for most errors.
Read more [flareapp.io]
A Laravel package to quickly see which HTML is rendered by which Blade view original
I'm happy to share that we have released our latest package, spatie/laravel-blade-comments.
This package can add comments to your rendered HTML output. For each Blade view that was used to build up the response, it adds start and ending comments.
Laravel Worldwide Meetup: Introducing Laravel Splade - Quick Wins in Laravel original
Here's the recording of the Laravel Worldwide Meetup which was held last week.
Saying goodbye to WIP commit messages original
There are two kinds of developers: those that write commit messages and value a repo's history and those that don't. I'm in the latter camp: most of my commit messages just read "WIP", much to the chagrin of some of my colleagues. I've tried to change my ways, but I just can't get into the habit of writing good commit messages.
But now I have a solution: I use the power of AI to write my commit messages for me. In this blog post, I'll show you how I did it.
