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

Posts tagged with best practices

Simplifying service providers in Laravel packages original

Jan 25th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

In almost every Laravel package, there is a ServiceProvider class responsible for registering bindings package resources such as config files, views, migrations, ...

While preparing a workshop that I gave on package development, I watched some videos of our own Laravel package training video course again. While watching the videos on using the service provider again, I had the idea to simplify how resources can be registered.

Meanwhile, I've fleshed out the idea and release it as a new package called laravel-package-tools. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.

A storm in a glass of water

Jan 22nd 2021 – stitcher.io

My colleague Brent makes the case for targetting and uses the latest PHP version.

It’s not legacy code — it’s PHP

Dec 17th 2020 – medium.com

"When it feels safe to make changes to code, it’s not really legacy code any longer".

Stop duplicating your Eloquent query scopes and constraints. Re-use them as select statements with a new Laravel package.

Dec 2nd 2020 – protone.media - submitted by Pascal Baljet

Introducing a new Laravel package that allows you to re-use scopes as a boolean attribute on Eloquent models.

Splitting a large Laravel Livewire Component

Dec 2nd 2020 – www.csrhymes.com - submitted by Chris Rhymes

Splitting up a large Laravel Livewire component into more manageable and maintainable chunks

Dealing with null

Nov 19th 2020 – front-line-php.com

Here's an excerpt taken from Front Line PHP where different strategies to handle null are explained

On Exactitude in Technical Debt

Nov 18th 2020 – www.oreilly.com

Technical debt is not simply a measure of the specific work needed to repay the debt; it is the additional time and effort added to all past, present, and future work that comes from having the debt in the first place.

Object oriented code done right

Nov 10th 2020 – front-line-php.com

Here's an entire chapter taken from Front Line PHP, a course on building moderns apps with PHP 8

Store strongly typed settings in a Laravel app original

Nov 9th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

We have released a new package, called spatie/laravel-settings, that allows you to strongly type settings in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.

Apply Filters Conditionally In Laravel With when()

Nov 6th 2020 – naxon.dev - submitted by Daniel Naxon

Ever needed to apply filters on a query conditionally, only when the user actually applies them? Laravel query builder's method when got you covered.

HTML Forms: Preventing Double Form Submissions

Nov 4th 2020 – www.bram.us

Here's how Bram Van Damme prevents double form submissions

Unconventional Laravel: Responsable Classes

Oct 22nd 2020 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

Sometimes your controllers can get rather large, especially if you have lots of conditions and data formatting. Have you ever considered moving some of that complexity out into a dedicated response class?

GitAttributes for PHP Composer Projects

Oct 22nd 2020 – php.watch

Here's a good rundown of things you can configure using the .gitattributes file.

Using Laravel's Policies and Route Model Binding without Eloquent

Oct 21st 2020 – timacdonald.me

Another nice post by Tim who continues to share suprising, little nice features of Laravel.

Going deep

Oct 20th 2020 – sebastiandedeyne.com

Seb makes the case that subtracting things can be better than adding things.

On Issue Bumping

Oct 19th 2020 – blog.sindresorhus.com

A nice, concise post by Sindre Sorhus on when to issue bump and when not to.

PHP be all like: that nonexistent class be cool

Oct 14th 2020 – timacdonald.me

In this blogpost, Tim MacDonald warns that PHP doesn't give you any warning when using ::class on a class that does not exist.

Never miss a webhook

Oct 6th 2020 – chipperci.com

Chris Fidao explains a cool strategy he uses at ChipperCI to never miss a webhook.

Translated Text in Source Code

Oct 5th 2020 – liamhammett.com - submitted by Liam Hammett

There are a few different ways to handle translated text in your codebase, but here we’ll cover 2 of the more common approaches; using the full text in your source code, and using translation keys.

Don't trust default timeouts

Sep 17th 2020 – robertovitillo.com

Modern applications don’t crash; they hang. One of the main reasons for it is the assumption that the network is reliable. It isn’t.