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Some solid advice from Adel Faiz: do not use a package for authorization unless you really need its functionalities. Laravel's default authorization capabilities are good enough for most use cases.

I don't want to say these packages are useless. They can be useful for projects which needs complicated authorization system, which should be customizable by customer later. Also some projects need dynamic permissions. For all other projects it's too heavy solution. Better to use simple code-based authorization.

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Oh Dear!, the monitoring service that my buddy Mattias and I run, now has the ability to auto import sites from Forge.

Forge recently introduced a feature called tags, whichs allows you to add custom tags to any server or site in Forge. We use those tags to determine which sites we should automatically add to your Oh Dear! Account. Every site or server tagged with oh-dear will be added. This allows you to still pick which sites should - or should not - get monitored.

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Mattias explains a problem we recently encountered at Oh Dear with Telescope.

For Oh Dear!, we're using Laravel Telescope as a convenient way of tracking/displaying exceptions, runs, ... It stores its exceptions in the database, so you can easily view them again. It stores those in a TEXT field in MySQL, which is limited to 2^16 bytes, or 65536 bytes. Some of our exceptions tend to be pretty long, and they were hitting this limit.

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✨ Laravel users, make this small change to your app.js file to auto register your Vue components. The filename becomes the component name. ?

Gist here: https://t.co/Y3NjLzgBEI pic.twitter.com/h5ByVNuiR6

— Jonathan Reinink (@reinink) 2 november 2018

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My buddy Mattias and I run a monitoring service called Oh Dear! We plan on regularly writing cool stuff on the technical and commericial challenges we face. Here's the first post on how we scale our queues.

Laravel offers a convenient way to create asynchronous background tasks using its queues. We utilize those heavily at Oh Dear! for all our monitoring jobs and in this post we'll share some of our lessons learned and what we consider to be best practices.

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?⚾️ Just found out throw_unless returns the provided condition! This took an already super handy helper and made it ? pic.twitter.com/aaz3Oc7uye

— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) October 26, 2018

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? The "pluck" method in Laravel's collections can take a string with dots to get a list of deeply nested values. You can also add a star to combine deeply nested lists ?https://t.co/qckA0dLw45 pic.twitter.com/3im6dGYoTi

— Joseph Silber (@joseph_silber) October 25, 2018

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Last week Adam Wathan's excellent Laracon US talk was published. Highly recommened to check it out even if you don't use Laravel.

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At the LaraconLive India conference, Shawn McCool shared some interesting ideas on how to handle models in complex apps.

If you want to speak at the 2019 edition of the conference, you'll be happy to learn that they currently have a CFP running.

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#laravel package creators: did you know you can just register your own factories?https://t.co/EHwIoE1VTm pic.twitter.com/zevHhaVh2c

— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) 11 oktober 2018

Tip nr.2 for package creators: you can just use Schema to create tables for your tests.https://t.co/2VO0o2jfiG pic.twitter.com/nXUf7mjxRU

— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) 11 oktober 2018

And another tip: need to use a sqlite in memory db in your orchestra tests? Just set the db connection tot testing in your phpunit config.https://t.co/POtg2N2M4e pic.twitter.com/yE2jtD7CoP

— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) 11 oktober 2018

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My colleague Brent shares how we've been structuring our non-trivial projects at Spatie.

In this post we'll look at a different approach of structuring large code bases into separate domains. The name "domain" is derived from the popular paradigm DDD, or also: domain driven design.

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Marcel Pociot recently created a Nova tool for Honeybadger. On their blog Marcel gives some interesting details on how it was created.

In the last weeks, I've been working with the team from Honeybadger on a custom resource tool to add Honeybadger error tracking output to Laravel Nova. It's a great addition to Nova and allows the developer to easily get access to error tracking information that, for example, is associated with specific users.

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It's perfectly fine if your controller doesn't extend anything#php #laravel pic.twitter.com/GVLYNDhvWE

— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) 27 september 2018

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Patrick Brouwers is doing an awesome job creating a quality Laravel package to integrate with Excel. The newest version can import Excel files.

Laravel Excel 3.0 was released a while ago and completely redesigned the architecture behind exports. Our next target was to do the same paradigm shift for imports. Development took some time, because we wanted to get it right from the start.

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