Improve user experience while keeping an eye on performance
A nice touch by Joel Clermont
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What sets Tempest apart as a framework for modern PHP development
Brent is doing some interesting stuff here.
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Your System Isn’t Slow – Your Bottleneck is not Optimized
A bottleneck isn’t inherently bad, we all have them. What matters is making sure your biggest bottleneck is always working at it’s most optimal conditions. That’s where your optimizations should be focused.
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Do not call toArray() to get all items from a Laravel Collection
Something that you’ll need to often is casting the collection back to a regular array. Like me, you might be tempted to use toArray() for this. But that might be the wrong method to call.
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What nobody tells developers about documentation
Users don’t know what your product does, how to use it, or why they would use it. You need docs to explain this.
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Settling the File Structure Debate
– muhammedsari.me - submitted by Muhammed Sari
Group by type or context / process? One of these methods will crush your project's growth. Find out which!
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Type Preferences
– liamduckett.com - submitted by Liam
A short post about my preferences around type safety and static analysis.
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Goodbye reCAPTCHA, hello Turnstile
We've been using this solution in our projects as well.
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Naming things is suddenly easier
Naming things is good skill to have for any programmer.
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API design note: Beware of adding an “Other” enum value
Beware of "Other"!
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Preventing Destructive Commands from Running in Laravel
– ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen
Read about how to use the Illuminate\Console\Prohibitable trait to prevent destructive commands from running in your Laravel application. We'll also look at how to prevent your own custom Artisan commands from running using this trait.
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Stop Using Pseudo-Types
Pseudo-types like callable and iterable may seem convenient at first glance, but they introduce ambiguities and make code harder to analyze.
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Command Line Interface Guidelines
– clig.dev
Good naming, consistency, clear communication, and discoverability. These are things that do not only apply to command line programs, but to general development as well.
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Don't hardcode admin domains for auth
Stephen Rees-Carter tells how hardcoding admin domains in code can lead to security vulnerabilities
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What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres
Postgres has many nuances and best practices that are important to understand.
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Laravel Custom Query Builders Over Scopes
While scopes are useful for simple queries, custom query builders are preferred for complex or frequently used queries.
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5 Ways to Extract Value from Overmocked Tests
Tomas shares his approach to get the most out of mocks, drop dead code, and make tests more valuable.
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Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Data Transfer Objects
– davorminchorov.com - submitted by Davor Minchorov
Learn about data transfer objects, why they are useful and why it's better to use them over arrays.
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A Case For Custom Collections
– alsterholm.com - submitted by Andreas Alsterholm
A blog post explaining some benefits (and drawbacks) of using custom Eloquent collections.
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To double quote or not, that's the question!
– dev.to
Spoiler: it doesn't really matter anymore as long as you're using a modern version of PHP
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