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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!
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.
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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.
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.
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!
We've released a new package called spatie/laravel-prefixed-ids. In this post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
When a site is down, Oh Dear sends a notification every hour. Since last year, our notifications can be snoozed for a fixed amount of time (5 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, one day).
In the evenings and weekends, our users might not want to receive repeated notifications. That's why we've added a nice human touch: all notifications can now be snoozed until the start of the next workday.
In this blog post, I'd like to share some of the code that powers this feature. We'll focus on how the start of the next workday is calculated.
Using our laravel-mail-preview package, you can quickly display mails that are sent by your Laravel application in your browser.
Today, we've released v5 of the package. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
In almost every Laravel package, there is a ServiceProvider class responsible for registering bindings package resources such as config files, views, migrations, ...
While preparing a workshop that I gave on package development, I watched some videos of our own Laravel package training video course again. While watching the videos on using the service provider again, I had the idea to simplify how resources can be registered.
Meanwhile, I've fleshed out the idea and release it as a new package called laravel-package-tools. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
I'm proud to announce the immediate release of Ray, a desktop app that vastly improves your debugging experience. Ray is a dedicated window to send dumped values to. It has a lot of features that help you find and fix bugs faster.
Ray is available for macOS, Windows and Linux.
In this blog post, I'd like to share why and how we've built Ray. If you just want to know what Ray is, head to the Ray homepage.
These past few months, my team and I have worked on something that we think will be very usefull for PHP and Laravel devs.
At 14:30 CEST you can see me release it live in this stream on YouTube.
I've already shown our project to a couple of friends. This is what they said:
This is a really innovative and exciting project in a space that doesn't have many options.
— Jess Archer (@jessarchercodes) January 7, 2021
And with very promising Linux support in the pipeline too! 😍
We're definitely talking about a daily developer experience improvement! https://t.co/tDHgsn7NiG
For amateur developers only! https://t.co/srNgSM21ym
— Michael Dyrynda (@michaeldyrynda) January 6, 2021
Get ready for something awesome! https://t.co/1nr5VbO4nY
— James Brooks (@jbrooksuk) January 6, 2021
I already had the chance to take a look at it. It looks very promising. I think you will like it :) https://t.co/viITNC8QSt
— Stefan Bauer (@stefanbauerme) January 6, 2021
What a year this has been. I guess that in January, nobody suspected that we'd got ourselves a worldwide pandemic on our hands.
For many people, 2020 has been a pretty rough year. While the pandemic also impacted me, I think that the problems I have only exist in my head. Nobody around me had health or financial troubles, and I also don't have any complaints on those fronts. That makes me a very lucky man.
In this blog post, I'd like to reflect on the things I did in 2020.
Yesterday, GitHub launched discussions as a public beta. We've been using the feature for a couple months. In this blogpost, I'd like to share how we will use discussions for our repos.
Earlier this year, Travis CI announced a new pricing model that effectively ends the generous open-source offering they had for many years. It seems that, even though there were some plans to provide free resources for OSS projects in the future, all activity for OSS projects has stopped.
At our company, we create a lot of open-source projects and packages. Beginning 2020, we already moved most of our stuff to GitHub actions.
Sure, you can read the GitHub actions docs to start learning the possibilities, but in my experience, it might be better to see some examples of practical uses cases. Here are some interesting links that might help you get started with GitHub actions.
At the time of writing there is no version of Imagick compatible with PHP 8. Fortuntely, the version on the master brach of the Imagick repo seems to work. Here's how you can use it. Clone the repo somewhere on disk Follow the steps mentioned here to create the extension. cd <directory of cloned…
After tweeting out a screenshot, it often get questions around which editor, font or color scheme I'm using. Instead of replying to those questions individually I've decided to just write down the settings and apps that I'm using.
To get the backtrace in PHP, you can use the debug_backtrace function. By default, it can be hard to work with. Using our newly released spatie/backtrace package, this becomes much simpler.
Let's dive in!
I'm proud to announce that Media Library Pro is now available. Media Library Pro is an add-on package for our free Media Library base package. It contains a set of Blade, Vue and React components that make it easy to upload files to media library and to manage files inside of a media library collection.
In this blog post, I'd like to introduce Media Library Pro to you.