Faking HTTP requests in Laravel original
Have you ever had to write an API integration from scratch? Where you're managing the HTTP calls yourself instead of being able to rely on third-party packages?
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The benefits of testing (video)
In this video, which is part of the Testing Laravel video course, I explain the benefits of testing.
Read more [spatie.be]
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Test-driving complex features with Laravel & Pest
- submitted by Mateus Guimarães
Mateus Guimaraes show a couple of neat tests powered by Pest.
Three types of mocks original
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
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!
Using Factory sequences in Laravel original
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
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
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)
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.
Read more [calebporzio.com]
Laravel Worldwide Meetup #10: A Little Bit of Lambda & Pest To Perfection original
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
– 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
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
How to convert a PHPUnit Testsuite to Pest original
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?
– postsrc.com - submitted by Sir Src
Introducing lazy loading prevention into an existing application
– timacdonald.me - submitted by Tim Mac
Introduce lazy loading to an existing application without interrupting flow or overwhelming your logs
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Mistakes I've made in AWS
Here's a collection of the most commonly missed things when using AWS with Laravel Forge!
Read more [laravel-news.com]
Strategies for decreasing the number of queries in a Laravel app original
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
We've launched a new feature that will make it easier for users of your app to report specific errors.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Monitoring Laravel Vapor metrics with Grafana Cloud
Once configured, you can see all of the metrics you need to ensure your Vapor app is healthy on one screen.
Read more [dyrynda.com.au]
How to Use a Custom Encryption Key for Encrypted Cast Model Attributes in Laravel
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.
Read more [larasec.substack.com]
