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Now that Laravel Nova can be installed via composer, we can run tests for Nova packages and projects on Travis CI. My friend Marcel Pociot explains how.

This is great news, as this does not only simplify updating Laravel Nova, but it also allows Nova tools/package developers to add continuous integration to their projects! But there is still a problem: we do not want to provide our Laravel Nova credentials in our open source repository. But how can we solve this?

Read more [marcelpociot.de]

#Laravel tip of the day: in Eloquent Query Builder, you can specify "as" to return any column with a different name, just like in plain SQL query. pic.twitter.com/r7xGm50lDL

— Povilas@LaravelDaily (@DailyLaravel) September 25, 2018

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TJ Miller shares a cool Travis config to tests against all versions of Laravel.

As Laravel 5.7 is now out, I needed to add support to both the package’s composer configuration and verification in CI. Previously, I only needed to verify against 5.5 and 5.6 I thought that having --prefer-lowest in the matrix would add the coverage I needed. Now that I am supporting three versions I felt that I needed a more specific way of verifying compatibility with different versions of Laravel.

Read more [blog.tjmiller.me]

My colleague Brent released another awesome package called laravel-view-models. On his blog he shares some good examples and uses cases.

In essence, view models are simple classes that take some data, and transform it into something usable for the view. In this post I'll show you the basic principles of the pattern, we'll take a look at how they integrate in Laravel projects, and finally I'll show you how we use the pattern in one of Spatie's, our company, projects.

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? Quick Tip on @laravelphp's new email verification feature! Want to override/replace the notification with your custom notification? You can. Just use a callback in a service provider for instance. pic.twitter.com/odxfnBemnH

— Stefan Bauer (@stefanbauerme) September 6, 2018

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In a post on IndieHackers my buddy Mattias Geniar shares the backstory behind our SaaS called Oh Dear!. He touches upon how we started out, how we use the cool stuff in the Laravel ecosystem, how we try to grow the service, what are future goals are and much more!

We both got fed up with existing tools that didn't fit our needs precisely. Most came close, but there was always something — whether settings or design choices — that we just didn't like. Being engineers, the obvious next step was to just build it ourselves! Oh Dear! launched in private beta earlier this year and has been running in production for a few months now. It's already generating over $1,500 per month.

Read more [www.indiehackers.com]

Surprised no one knew about that, but did you know you can do this? pic.twitter.com/OfJ7udnHFe

— Mohamed Said? (@themsaid) 15 augustus 2018

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Nick Basile, UX instructor at Lambda school, write a good practical tutorial on creating custom Nova actions.

In my last post, we started building a simple CRM using Laravel Nova. It was pretty complete when we left it, but I think we can add a few more features and explore the rest of what Nova has to offer. In this walkthrough, we'll take a look at how to use Nova's Actions and authorization.

Read more [nick-basile.com]

Dads in Dev is a podcast run by Andrew Del Prete and Nova co-creator David Hemphill. Their latest episode contains some interesting tidbits on the creation of Laravel Nova: where the idea came from, how it was developped, how it's different from other admin panels, some thoughts on the early access...

http://www.dadsindev.com/54a0a0c1

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My colleague Brent explains how you can easily work with MySQL views in Laravel.

MySQL views are a way of storing queries on the database level, and producing virtual tables with them. In this post we'll look at why you want to use them and how they can be integrated in Laravel with Eloquent models.

Read more [stitcher.io]

How about this? pic.twitter.com/JkKVBgfOtZ

— Dave Yoakum (@dawiyo) 1 August 2018

You can even write it shorter as User::latest()->value('name');

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Till Krüss released a cool Alfred workflow to easily search the docs. Here it is in action.

Behind the scenes it uses an Algolia index to retrieve the results. I've been only using it for a day and I can't image how I could have lived without this so long.

https://github.com/tillkruss/alfred-laravel-docs

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Laravel Shift is a service that can help upgrade a Laravel app. The creator of the service, Jason McCreary, published some interesting statistics on the Laravel apps that were upgraded by the service.

At the time of this writing, Shift has upgraded over 8,500 Laravel apps. Every time a Shift runs a log file is created. Initially, these log files were for debugging. A way for me to not only offer support, but log events that let me know how I might improve the services.

Read more [jason.pureconcepts.net]

At Laracon US 2018 [Taylor Otwell] introduced Laravel Nova, a very shiny admin panel for Laravel applications.

I’m thrilled to announce the newest member of the Laravel ecosystem: Laravel Nova. Nova is a beautifully designed administration panel for Laravel. We’ve sweat the small details and carefully crafted Nova to not only look great, but to be a joy to work with.

Read more [medium.com]

In season 3 of the Laravel podcast Matt Stauffer interviews people in the Laravel community. I had the pleasure of being the guest on the latest episode.

You can listen to the entire thing here: http://www.laravelpodcast.com/db8ee53b

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Marcel Pociot, serial open source creator, released another cool Laravel package.

When your Laravel project grows, so do the Laravel views. Sometimes it might be hard to figure out, which part of the output HTML was rendered using which template. With this package, you can take a peek into your Laravel views and find out which template is responsible for which part of the output HTML.

Read more [github.com]