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Posts tagged with api

Using Generators (and LazyCollections) for Paginating APIs

Nov 11th 2022 – bannister.me - submitted by James Bannister

A post outlining how you can use generators, and LazyCollections, to create better interfaces for paginating APIs.

Introducing the Mailcoach SDKs for PHP and Laravel

Nov 9th 2022 – mailcoach.app

You can now easily consume the Mailcoach API in your app using our SDK.

Adding a Laravel backend to a Remix App

Jun 17th 2022 – davecalnan.blog

Dave Calnan has been using Remix in production for about 6 months now and has decided to add a Laravel backend to the stack. Here's what he's learned from the process.

Testing API responses in pestPHP

May 11th 2022 – www.juststeveking.uk - submitted by Steve McDougall

I get asked about API response testing a lot, how should you do it, and where to start. I have a general rule when it comes to testing APIs, and that rule is: "test your code, and your code only". What do I mean by this? Let me explain:

Laravel Worldwide Meetup #11: Building APIs & Models/Spotlight With Livewire

Oct 28th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Here's the recording of the latest edition of the Laravel Worldwide meetup. Philo Hermans showed off two great Livewire packages that he made. Steve McDougall did a cool live coding session on how to build APIs. And at the end, our suprise guest Caneco gave a nice little presentation on Lumen as…

Faking HTTP requests in Laravel

Oct 25th 2021 by Brent Roose – 2 minute read

Have you ever had to write an API integration from scratch? Where you're managing the HTTP calls yourself instead of being able to rely on third-party packages?

Give me /events, not webhooks

Jul 23rd 2021 – blog.syncinc.so

Here are some cool ideas to improve webhooks

Laravel Transporter, how to make OOP API requests

Jun 23rd 2021 – www.juststeveking.uk - submitted by Steve McDougall

Laravel transporter is an easy to use wrapper around Laravel PendingRequest that allows you to define requests as classes, and override options at run time when you need to.

JSON API Error Responses in Laravel with Httpable Exceptions

Jun 10th 2021 – jessarcher.com

Jess Archer show a nice approach on how to use exception in the HTTP layer.

Custom Access Tokens in Laravel Sanctum

May 12th 2021 – doeken.org

Thanks to Doeke Norg personal access tokens became more flexible in Sanctum. In this blog post, he explains how you might use the new functionality

Back the func off, this is my abstraction!

May 2nd 2021 – blog.frankdejonge.nl

Let's dive into some of the design considerations you might make when designing abstractions that reach over a network.

How to Unit Test a Laravel API with the Pest Framework

Mar 30th 2021 – www.twilio.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro

In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at how to get started using Pest in a Laravel project. Using the test-driven approach, we’ll be building a simple to-do application that allows you to create, edit, update and delete tasks.

A package to prefix ids in a Laravel app

Feb 25th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

We've released a new package called spatie/laravel-prefixed-ids. In this post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

CORS Visualized

Jan 21st 2021 – dev.to

Let's see what CORS is actually doing, and why it's actually our friend.

Selling digital products using Laravel part 6: Building a video section using Vimeo

Oct 13th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

On our website, we have a video section. All our videos uploaded to and handled via Vimeo where we have a Pro subscription. We chose Vimeo because it has an excellent widget to display videos, it converts our videos very fast, and it has a nice API to work with. Let's take a look at how Vimeo is integrated in our site.

Selling digital products using Laravel part 3: Giving customers access to private repositories on Github

Oct 13th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Wouldn't it be great if we could automatically give customers access to the private repositories on GitHub for the products they bought? Let's take a look at how this is handled at spatie.be

Surviving a heatwave using Google Cloud functions

Aug 31st 2020 - submitted by Adriaan Marain

This summer in Belgium has been a very hot one, and we're bound to have a couple more very warm weeks during the rest of summer.

I'm not the best at dealing with this kind of heat, and with the temperature inside hitting 28° C, I've been trying to get my home to cool down on a budget: I open the windows when the temperature outside is cooler than inside, and close them when it warms up. I've also noticed the sun hits the living room starting at around 7 in the morning, which means I should close the curtains right around that time to stop the tile floor from heating up.

From the start, I knew it was likely that I would forget to close the windows in time. I would need someone - or something - to remind me. I saw a talk about Google Cloud by Bram Van Damme at JSConf.be a while back, so I decided this could be a fun little project to play around with GCP.

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