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Posts tagged with laravel

Three types of mocks original

Oct 21st 2021 by Brent Roose – 3 minute read

Mocking, faking; these might sound like intimidating words if you don't know what they are about, but once you do, you'll be able to improve your testing skills significantly.

Part of "the art of testing" is being able to test code in some level of isolation to make sure a test suite is trustworthy and versatile. These topics are so important that we actually made five or six videos on them in our Testing Laravel course.

In this post, I want to share three ways how you can deal with mocking and faking. Let's dive in!

A Laravel package to crawl and index content of your sites original

Oct 19th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 12 minute read

The newly released spatie/laravel-site-search package can crawl and index the content of one or more sites. You can think of it as a private Google search for your sites. Like most Spatie packages, it is highly customizable: you have total control over what content gets crawled and indexed.

To see the package in action, head over to the search page of this very blog.

In this post, I'd like to introduce the package to you and highlight some implementation and testing details. Let's dig in!

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Using Factory sequences in Laravel original

Oct 18th 2021 by Brent Roose – 1 minute read

One of the things I really like about modern Laravel projects, are the new model factories introduced in Laravel 8.

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.

Asserting valid and invalid requests in Laravel original

Oct 12th 2021 by Brent Roose – 1 minute read

Testing a Laravel project is one of the most pleasant experiences I've ever had: there's a clean testing API, a very powerful layer added on top of testing frameworks; all while keeping the simplicity and eloquence you'd expect from a Laravel project.

How Livewire works (a deep dive)

Oct 12th 2021 – calebporzio.com

The experience of using Livewire seems magical. It's as if your front-end HTML can call your PHP code and everything just works. A lot goes into making this magic happen.

How to start and stop polling in React and Livewire

Oct 4th 2021

Last week, support for Telegram notifications was added to both Flare and Oh Dear. Let's take a look at how both these services connect to Telegram. We'll focus on how polling is used in the connection flow and how polling can be stopped once the necessary data has been received.

Laravel Worldwide Meetup #10: A Little Bit of Lambda & Pest To Perfection original

Sep 29th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

This edition of the meetup features those two excellent talks:

A Little Bit of Lambda (by Aaron Francis)
Pest to Perfection (by Luke Downing)

Declaring Expectations Against Array Items in Pest

Sep 27th 2021 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

Let's look at how we can use Pest's Expectation API with array items.

Want to learn more about testing and/or Pest? Check out Testing Laravel

How to convert a PHPUnit Testsuite to Pest original

Sep 27th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

While recording videos for the Testing Laravel video course, I became a big fan of Pest, a test runner that tries to optimize the developer experience. I'm now using Pest as the default for testing new packages and projects.

I've also converted a couple of existing testsuites from PHPUnit to Pest. Luckily, this is a very easy process. In this video I'll show you how to get started. You'll see that it only takes a couple of minutes.

How to get query builder to output its raw SQL query as a string in Laravel?

Sep 26th 2021 – postsrc.com - submitted by Sir Src

Learn how to get the raw SQL string from a query builder in Laravel the easy way. Get to know this information to inspect the query used to retrieve the data.

You could also use ray($query) to see the query in Ray.

Introducing lazy loading prevention into an existing application

Sep 25th 2021 – timacdonald.me - submitted by Tim Mac

Introduce lazy loading to an existing application without interrupting flow or overwhelming your logs

Mistakes I've made in AWS

Sep 15th 2021 – laravel-news.com

Here's a collection of the most commonly missed things when using AWS with Laravel Forge!

Strategies for decreasing the number of queries in a Laravel app original

Sep 13th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 13 minute read

Oh Dear is all-in-one solution to monitor your site that my buddy Mattias Geniar and I have created. It can monitoring uptime, certificates, broken links, scheduled jobs, and much more.

Under the hood, Oh Dear is a large Laravel application that performs many queries all of the time. To power future features, we've recently changed our database structure and refactored some pieces in our code base. We increased performance by decreasing the number of queries.

In this blog post, we'd like to to share some techniques that might be helpfull to increase the performance of your Laravel app too.

Linking to Flare errors on your error page

Sep 13th 2021 – flareapp.io

We've launched a new feature that will make it easier for users of your app to report specific errors.

Monitoring Laravel Vapor metrics with Grafana Cloud

Sep 13th 2021 – dyrynda.com.au

Once configured, you can see all of the metrics you need to ensure your Vapor app is healthy on one screen.

How to Use a Custom Encryption Key for Encrypted Cast Model Attributes in Laravel

Sep 8th 2021 – larasec.substack.com

Laravel allows you to cast model attributes as encrypted strings1, when stored in the database. This gives you added security for any values that are sensitive (such as Personally identifiable information, PII), including complex structures such as arrays, collections, and even objects.

Introducing a new package to add a support form to your app original

Sep 2nd 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

We've created a new package that can render a beautiful support form widget on any page. You can read more about the package in this blog post at Flare.

In this stream, I'll show you how to use the package. We'll also source dive its code.

How to test a form in a Laravel app original

Aug 30th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

In this video, my colleague Brent explains a good way to test a form in a Laravel app.

This video is part of our new premium video course Testing Laravel.

Cool Laravel Testing Techniques original

Aug 25th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

In this stream, Brent and I showcase some cool techniques we use in our test suites.

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