Introducing PHP Operators
Here's a fun little sideproject from my colleague Seb. This web app is built with Laravel, Alpine.js, and Tailwind CSS. Content is stored in Markdown files and loaded with our sheets package.
Read more [php-operators.com]
Embedding Blade inside of Markdown content
Here's a neat solution by Ryan Chandler
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
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Adding wire:navigate to Markdown links
– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
Discover how we've updated our new Ray docs!
Read more [myray.app]
Rendering Blade components in Markdown
– aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis
Rendering Laravel Blade components in markdown files.
Read more [aaronfrancis.com]
Blazingly Fast Markdown Parsing in PHP using FFI and Rust
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
In this post, Ryan demonstrates how to use FFI and a lower-level language such as Rust to improve the performance of a critical path.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
My process for writing the freek.dev newsletter
My team and I are currently working on the hosted version of Mailcoach Cloud, which now is in public beta. Using the Markdown capabilities of Mailcoach and its API, I can easily create new editions of my own newsletter.
Read more [www.mailcoach.app]
How to render markdown with perfectly highlighted code snippets
When reading technical blogpost around the web, you might have noticed that code highlighting is not always perfect.
Shiki is the code highlighter that uses the textmate parser VSCode uses under the hood. The code highlighting it provides is near perfect, even when using modern syntax. It supports 100+ languages (via our package Blade is supported too), and all VS Code themes.
I'm proud to announce that we have released three new Spatie packages that make it easy to use Shiki in your PHP projects:
- shiki-php: makes it easy to call Shiki from PHP to highlight a given code snippet
- commonmark-shiki-highlighter: allows commonmark to highlight all code snippets in a markdown fragment
- laravel-markdown: a batteries included Laravel package that offers a Blade component to easily render Markdown with highlighted code snippets and a class to render Markdown manually.
We're already using this package to render all our documentation pages, our guidelines, and this very blog you are reading.
How To Create A GitHub Profile README
Monica Powell explains how to customize your GitHub profile page.
Read more [www.aboutmonica.com]
Building Gistlog
Matt Stauffer shows how he built Gistlog in under two hours.
Gistlog is a blogging "platform" for people who want to quickly write and publish content, in Markdown, and don't want to bother with yet another platform and yet another login and yet another group hoarding their content. With Gistlog, you use your pre-existing Github login, you store the data in your own Github account, and you can publish with a single click.A must see if you want to know how to get things done quickly in Laravel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4BbeHYCR1E
Also make sure you check out his blogposts on the new features of Laravel 5.