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

Posts tagged with best practices

Keep controllers clean by using form requests in Laravel original

May 3rd 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Most people use form requests solely for validation, but they can also help to keep your controllers clean. Here's how we use them in Mailcoach

Authoring Great Pull Requests

May 2nd 2021 – dev.to - submitted by Patrick

Some best practices and tips for composing high quality pull requests when contributing to open source projects.

Back the func off, this is my abstraction!

May 2nd 2021 – blog.frankdejonge.nl

Let's dive into some of the design considerations you might make when designing abstractions that reach over a network.

The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging

Apr 26th 2021 – buttondown.email

I do want to point out that print debugging has one critical feature that most step-based debuggers don't have: you can see program state from multiple time steps all at once.

Better Laravel / PHP Code: five guidelines from Spatie

Apr 13th 2021

YouTube star Povilas Korop shares and discusses five rules from our guidelines.

Composer Security Hardening

Mar 24th 2021 – php.watch - submitted by Ayesh

Security precautions Composer already has, and what you can do to improve them further.

Before You memo()

Mar 1st 2021 – overreacted.io

In this post, Dan Abramov shares two different techniques to optimize components without having to reach for memo().

When to add types and when to infer in TypeScript

Feb 8th 2021 – sebastiandedeyne.com

This is how Seb decides when or when not to explicitly add types in TypeScript.

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.

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