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

Posts tagged with design patterns

Nodes and the Visitor pattern

Mar 25th 2021 – lorisleiva.com - submitted by Loris

Learn why, when and how to structure your data as a cluster of nodes and how to execute various operations on that cluster via external visitors.

When Objects Aren't Enough

Feb 24th 2021 – www.tonysm.com - submitted by Tony Messias

Tony Messias been looking up resources on the roots of Object-Oriented Programming. He shares some very interesting ideas.

Contract Tests

Jan 27th 2021 – www.kai-sassnowski.com

In this post, Kai takes a look at how you can write tests to ensure consistent behavior across all implementations of an interface.

Writable getters in JavaScript

Jan 4th 2021 – lea.verou.me

A pattern that has come up a few times Vera's my code is the following: an object has a property which defaults to an expression based on its other properties unless it’s explicitly set, in which case it functions like a normal property. Essentially, the expression functions as a default value.

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

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?

Laravel Worldwide Meetup #3: Yaz Jallad & Adel Fayzrakhmanov original

Oct 1st 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Here is the recording of Laravel Worldwide Meetup #3. Jazz Jalled spoke on the manager pattern, Adel Fayzrakhmanov on PhpStorm plugin development.

Unconventional Laravel: Custom Pipeline Classes

Sep 16th 2020 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

Laravel makes use of the internal Pipeline class and it's more common in userland too, but have you ever considered tidying up these pipeline processes with custom pipeline classes?

Abstract resources in Laravel Nova

Jun 25th 2020 – stitcher.io

Bruno Falcao explains a nice strategy when creating resources in Nova

Who's scared of phantom types?

Jun 9th 2020 – marcosh.github.io

The usage of phantom types is a simple type level trick which can help with this in practical settings, without requiring complicated features or making your code too abstract and less readable.

Avoiding inheritance in Laravel

May 27th 2020 – jasonmccreary.me

Jason McCreary makes the case for using traits over reaching for inheritance.

Your App is a Package Manager

May 25th 2020 – tighten.co

A nice way of structuring an app and good example of handling multitenancy in a light way by the Tighten team.

The Backend For Frontend Pattern

May 22nd 2020

Mohamed Said explains an interesting pattern for you to consider that can potentially make authenicating from the frontend easier.

Refactoring: Demeter-Wrapping

May 12th 2020 – www.geepawhill.org

Geepaw Hill explains a way to avoid demeter violations.

Static Constructors in PHP

Apr 29th 2020 – liamhammett.com - submitted by Liam Hammett

A static constructor is just a method the developer can define on a class which can be used to initialise any static properties, or to perform any actions that only need to be performed only once for the given class. The method is only called once as the class is needed.

Combining event sourcing and stateful systems

Apr 24th 2020 – stitcher.io - submitted by Brent

In this two-part series, my colleague Freek and I will discuss the architecture of a project we're working on.

Mixing event sourcing in a traditional Laravel app original

Apr 20th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read

Together with my colleague Brent, I'm working on designing the architecture of a massive Laravel application. In that application, we'll have traditional parts and event sourced parts. In this blog post, I'd like to give a practical example of how we think to achieve this.

The Beauty of Single Action Controllers

Apr 10th 2020 – driesvints.com - submitted by Dries Vints

Dries Vints wrote a bost on why he uses single action controllers.

Capturing the World in Software

Feb 6th 2020 – blog.jessitron.com

Very nice post by Jessica Joy Kerr on the benefits and tradeoffs of event sourcing.

We can get a complete, consistent model of a small piece of the world using Event Sourcing. This is powerful but expensive.

Enums without enums in PHP

Feb 4th 2020 – stitcher.io - submitted by Brent

Brent explains a few patterns to add enum functionality in PHP.