Posts tagged with best practices
– frederickvanbrabant.com - submitted by Frederick Vanbrabant
My buddy Frederick wrote an interesting post on why he always checks out the admin panel of an app instead of the code.
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Dave Marshall replies to a blogpost that Frank De Jonge published recently.
Read more [davedevelopment.co.uk]
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Tim MacDonald shares a nice way to go about this.
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Geepaw Hill explains a way to avoid demeter violations.
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🔥 Applications often have the most lines of code within controller actions.
— Jason McCreary (@gonedark) April 13, 2020
One practice to streamline your code is directly assigning view variables.
This also limits the use of temporarily variables and promotes abstractions which make the code more readable. pic.twitter.com/m0JGsybQ9k
– driesvints.com - submitted by Dries Vints
Dries Vints wrote a bost on why he uses single action controllers.
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A must read by Frank de Jonghe on testing.
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– tighten.co - submitted by Matt Stauffer
The average Laravel app sends between a few and a few dozen notifications to users, but what happens when they want to opt out? With legal regulations like GDPR, it's more important than ever to give users control over the emails they receive.
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My colleague Seb explains why and how you should use a global .gitignore file
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Seb explains why it's perfectly safe to drop a major version of PHP without tagging a new major version of a package.
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In this short post, I'd like to give you a tip on writing readable PHP.
In this video, which is part of the mailcoach video course, I show how I like to write my exceptions.
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Have you every come across confusing if statements with complex conditionals such as this? I bet you did!
// please kill me 🤯 if (!(($this->shipping_country == "GB" || (strcmp($this-status, "Valid") !== 0)) {
To me, this is completely unreadable.
In the video below I show how I deal with this situation. Spoiler: add some tests around it and break the conditionals apart.
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Here's how to let password managers recognise your login form and let you use their features on your fields.
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Mattias Verraes explains a method for making technical debt visible and negotiable.
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– tighten.co - submitted by Matt Stauffer
In the age of internet tracking, more users are turning to blocker software for protection. Sara Bin shares some tips to improve your website's UX for these users—and everyone else!
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– stefanbauer.me - submitted by Stefan Bauer
This article is the result of my 8 years of experience with PhpStorm and my best settings that make you a faster developer and let you focus more on the important things.
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Jonathan Reinink wrote another excellent blog post.
As much as possible, keep data fetching to the perimeter of your Laravel applications. What do I mean by this? In the simplest terms, it means running your database queries in your controllers.
Read more [reinink.ca]
Sara Soueidan shares valueable insights on the importance of accessibility.
A few years ago I didn’t know what the term “accessibility” meant. I built Web sites that were partially inaccessible because I didn’t know better. Fast forward to today, I know enough to be able to write, speak and run workshops on accessibility, helping others build more a accessible and inclusive Web. Much like everyone else in our field, I am still learning. But since I started, I learned a lot of valuable lessons and core values that drive my work today. Here are a few of them.
Read more [www.24a11y.com]
– dev.to
David Khourshid explains how you can use state machines to make your logic more resilient.
Disabling a button is not logic. Rather, it is a sign that logic is fragile and bug-prone. In my opinion, disabling a button should only be a visual cue to the user that clicking the button will have no effect.
Read more [dev.to]
