Posts tagged with 'best practices' - Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI

Posts tagged with best practices

The value of a good database design

Mar 21st 2022 – tray2.se - submitted by Patrik Ahlström

You might think that the way your store your data isn't really that important. Well it's more important than you think it is. A good database design just like good clean code is the key to performance, not only for the end user but also for you the developer. A poor database model just like poorly written code will slow you down and furthermore it will slow your database queries down which results in a slow application.

Clean Coders Hate What Happens to Your Code When You Use These Enterprise Programming Tricks

Mar 16th 2022

This talk by Kevlin Henney looks at how a handful of coding habits, design practices and assumptions can systematically balloon code and compound its accidental complexity.

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Avoid using else original

Mar 16th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Using else often encourages complexer code structure, makes code less readable. In most cases you can refactor it using early returns.

Code that breathes original

Mar 9th 2022 by Brent Roose & Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Have you ever needed to maintain a project that wasn't yours? A project that, when you first opened it, gave you chills down your spine? Even without reading the code in detail, you could already tell it was a mess.

Drying up test coverage using model scope events

Feb 21st 2022 – devonmather.dev - submitted by Devon Mather

Let's explore the option of firing events on model scopes to add some glue between our feature tests and our unit tests.

Speeding up array_merge()

Feb 2nd 2022 – www.exakat.io

Here's why you should be carefull with array_merge in loops.

Exceptional Naming

Jan 12th 2022 – kevlinhenney.medium.com

Kevlin Henney makes the case for not suffixing class names, or files with the type of object it contains.

Where does my validation live?

Jan 12th 2022 – blog.frankdejonge.nl

Validation takes on many shapes and forms. In this post, Frank walks you through all the possibilities.

Overriding vendor classes

Jan 11th 2022 – downing.tech

Ever found yourself wanting to make a small tweak to a PHP file in a Composer dependency? Here's how to do it without forking the entire package.

No code reviews by default

Jan 11th 2022 – www.raycast.com

At Raycast, the dev team only requests code reviews when they think it's necessary.

Modern PHP Cheat Sheet

Nov 26th 2021 – front-line-php.com

A to-the-point summary of all awesome PHP features

How to update large data in Laravel

Oct 29th 2021 – 42coders.com

Here are a few best practices for working with a large tables.

Making 1Password understand where your change password page is located original

Oct 15th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

A few days ago, a new version of 1Password was released that is able to detect where a user can reset his or her password.

What happens when we clone?

Sep 24th 2021 – doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg

Cloning is a nice way of creating a quick copy of an object. But there are some things you need to be aware of!

On using PSR abstractions

Aug 26th 2021 – matthiasnoback.nl

Matthias Noback shares some considerations on when you could rely on PSR abstractions

How we're using static analysis to improve our codebase

Aug 20th 2021 – flareapp.io

A static analyzer helps you to find bugs in your code without even running it. Popular static analyzers for PHP are Psalm and PHPStan. In this post, we're going to look at what such a static analyzer can find in a two-year-old codebase.

The benefits of writing tests

Aug 20th 2021 – testing-laravel.com

I've been creating web applications for over 15 years now. It's only in the last five years that I've learned how to test an application automatically. I can safely say that there is no other technique that has improved the quality of my code more.

Let's go over what a test is and all the benefits it provides.

Don't use Mocking libraries

Aug 13th 2021 – peakd.com

Native PHP functionality and having a good design in the first place provide everything you need to avoid a mocking library.

Introducing Dinero.js

Jul 22nd 2021 – v2.dinerojs.com

Using Dinero, you can perform mutations, conversions, comparisons, format them extensively, and overall make money manipulation in your application easier and safer.

The docs also contain a few falsehoods many developers believe to be true about money.

Organizing Miscellaneous Utility Functions

Jun 30th 2021 – afilina.com

Anna Filina shares how she goes about organizing small functions.