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Matthias Noback wrote down some thoughts on the Laravel container

Laravel's service container looks great. I like the idea that it can figure things out mostly by itself. I like that it's PHP-based, and that its syntax is quite compact. I think that most of the convenience functions (e.g. resolve()) and exotic options (like $this->app->resolving()) should be ignored. The best thing you can do for your application in the long term is to let all your services use dependency injection, and to inject only constructor arguments. This keeps things simple, but also portable to other frameworks with other dependency injection containers, or other architectural styles, when the time is there.

Read more [matthiasnoback.nl]

My colleague Brent wrote another excellent blog post, this time on tests and types.

So while strong types can help us to ensure program correctness, some tests will always be a necessity to ensure business correctness. It's a matter of "both and", not "either or".

Read more [stitcher.io]

Nuno Maduro, engineer at Algolia, explains what is the value of the @internal tag

The PHP @internal tag can be used to denote that the associated class/method is internal to the library. It's supported by PHPStorm and it warns people that those classes/methods are not meant to be used

Read more [nunomaduro.com]

Konstantin Kudryashov, one of the speakers at the upcoming Full Stack Europe conference, makes the case for sharing new insights early.

When you build new feature as a team, and it requires a lot of new learning, do not hoard new knowledge in your head. Instead, incrementally commit each unit of learning into working code. Hide that partial logic behind a feature flag. The feature would be incomplete, but work-in-progress outputs will expose meaningful and demonstrable progress. To increase team’s awareness of outputs, add links into the feature tracker or documentation.

Read more [stakeholderwhisperer.com]

I always knew the browser was pretty smart about dealing with what I thought was incomplete HTML, but I didn't know the HTML5 spec actually defined a bunch of tags as optional ?

Google actually recommends writing your HTML this way:https://t.co/t3fu98s5IM pic.twitter.com/v2RAr5Whl9

— Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) May 18, 2019

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At the Clarabridge Developers blog, Toon Daelman wrote a good post on how to improve your exceptions.

You've made it to this post thinking "Why do we still need to talk about Exceptions?". Well, they're used everywhere in OOP codebases, but sometimes they're used in a way that make debugging a bit difficult. Let's look at some ways to make debugging exceptions a bit more fun!

Read more [engagor.github.io]

? PSA: <title> tags matter (especially for people browsing the web with screen readers)

ICYMI: https://t.co/g7IdUkEjiQ pic.twitter.com/ANIjMZUMDN

— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) May 28, 2019

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Emily Shaffer makes the case for commenting regular expressions.

It’s probably not a good idea to encourage your coworkers to think critically about what life would be like if you got hit by a bus, but the good news is that you can simultaneously document your regular expression and teach your coworkers some regex basics, if you comment them carefully!

Read more [nasamuffin.github.io]

?? Laravel Core Adventures - Did you know?

In Laravel, we can access related data as if we would call a class property. But in fact, this is just a shortcut/hack for using the relationship method we have defined.

The second approach has one advantage, your IDE can follow it. pic.twitter.com/OjL4zNqUnp

— Christoph Rumpel ? (@christophrumpel) April 17, 2019

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It's a bit of a click baity title, but reading it I learning that all PHPUnit's asserts have a function equivalent.

During the preparation of TDD workshops, I began to think about how to write assertions. It turns out that there are several possibilities, but is there the only correct one?

Read more [arkadiuszkondas.com]

My colleague Brent offers some more details on the intricacies of Laravel's query builder.

I recently learned that not all query builder functionality in Laravel is "safe". This means that user input shouldn't be passed directly to it, as it might expose your application to SQL injection vulnerabilities.

Read more [stitcher.io]

KH. Jebran Ali lists a few cool Laravel tricks

Laravel is full of hidden gems that I have discovered during working on different tasks. Some of these gems were less-known or un-documented features, functions parameters and hacks. In this blog post I will share those hidden gems with you, let’s get started.

Read more [meramustaqbil.com]

React lead dev Dan Abramov makes the case for naming your ideas and projects.

The problem it’s solving might be so ingrained that we don’t even notice it. It’s the elephant in the room. And we can’t discuss what we never named.

Read more [overreacted.io]

Anna Filina explains the handy platform option you can use in composer.json. It's a good idea to just use this in all of your projects.

Say you run the latest PHP version on your machine, but the server runs PHP 5.5. This means that when you decide to add a Composer package, it might propose a version that may not be installable on the server. The solution is surprisingly easy. You can instruct Composer to see the PHP version of your choosing.

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Here's an interesting approach to work with env variables proposed by Marijn Huizendveld

Frameworks offer tools to parameterize environments in a variety of ways. But because of this configuration files of projects tend to get messy once projects are taken into production. Specifying purpose of the parameter within the name can help identify unneeded configurations. Making configuration explicit within the application layer can be even more helpful. Doing so eases refactoring and provides potential to improve the overall developer experience.

Read more [marijn.huizendveld.com]

Matthias Noback makes the case for writting your own service containers.

Dependency injection is very important. Dependency injection containers are too. The trouble is with the tools, that let us define services in a meta-language, and rely on conventions to work well. This extra layer requires the "ambient information" Paul speaks about in his tweet, and easily lets us make mistakes that we wouldn't make if we'd just write out the code for instantiating our services.

Read more [matthiasnoback.nl]

Refactoring is an excellent book written by Martin Fowler. He recently released a second edition. I'm reading it now and can recommend it to anyone interested in writing better code. Here's an interview with the author on the second edition of the book.

InfoQ interviewed Fowler about the major changes in the 2nd edition of Refactoring, how to recognize code smells and refactor code, how code reviews and refactoring support each other, what tech leads can do to encourage refactoring, the benefits refactoring brings, using tools for refactoring, and mob programming.

Read more [www.infoq.com]