Opinion-driven design
– stitcher.io - submitted by Brent
Brent shares a few thoughts on open source software design
Read more [stitcher.io]
Saying Goodbye To Typo CI
There's no shame in stopping a project if it turns out it isn't worthwhile to continue working on it.
Read more [mikerogers.io]
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How to compile PHP from Source
Knowing how to compile PHP will open one of the few doors necessary for contributing to the PHP language. Once you get familiar with this it will be much easier for you to contribute in many ways such as running tests and uploading reports, writing new tests by yourself and bug reporting/fixing.
Read more [thephp.website]
A package to watch for file system changes in PHP
Our team has released a new package called file-system-watcher. As the name implies, this package can watch changes in the file system and let you act on those changes.
Authoring Great Pull Requests
– dev.to - submitted by Patrick
Some best practices and tips for composing high quality pull requests when contributing to open source projects.
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Data Transfer Object v3 has been released
We've released a new major version of spatie/data-transfer-object. This package makes it easy to create objects that have a certain shape. Properties can even be validated.
🐘 Need self-validating PHP objects? Here you go!https://t.co/osPCSr0qu8
— Freek Van der Herten 🎆 (@freekmurze) April 2, 2021
Gotta love PHP 8
Very nice work by @brendt_gd pic.twitter.com/Sn1mS7R8Sv
In this post I'd like to tell you more the package.
Creating a Laravel package from scratch
In this stream, you'll see me lay the foundations for the spatie/laravel-signal-aware-command package.
Using composer patches
When you use software that is open source, you'll sometimes run into issues or small bugs that have already been fixed by the community in a PR or an issue, but have yet to be merged and/or released. If you're impatient and need that fix now, composer patches can be a solution for this problem.
Read more [www.rias.be]
A recap of 2020
What a year this has been. I guess that in January, nobody suspected that we'd got ourselves a worldwide pandemic on our hands.
For many people, 2020 has been a pretty rough year. While the pandemic also impacted me, I think that the problems I have only exist in my head. Nobody around me had health or financial troubles, and I also don't have any complaints on those fronts. That makes me a very lucky man.
In this blog post, I'd like to reflect on the things I did in 2020.
Emphpathy
In this post Derick Rethans ask maintainers and users to have empathy for each other.
Read more [24daysindecember.net]
A better way to work with a backtrace in PHP
To get the backtrace in PHP, you can use the debug_backtrace function. By default, it can be hard to work with. Using our newly released spatie/backtrace package, this becomes much simpler.
Let's dive in!
Sunsetting PHP Faker
In this post, Francois Zaninotto explains why and how he stopped working on Faker.
Read more [marmelab.com]
The best PRs we got in October
At Spatie, we want to stimulate contributing to our open source stuff. That's why we said that we'd give away some of our paid products for free to authors of the best PRs we got in October. In a way, it's our own small version of Hacktoberfest.
In this blog post, I'd like to announce the winners.
On Issue Bumping
A nice, concise post by Sindre Sorhus on when to issue bump and when not to.
Read more [blog.sindresorhus.com]
Selling digital products using Laravel part 1: Intro + a tour of spatie.be
On our Laravel powered company website we sell digital products: video courses, e-books, and software packages. Behind the scenes we use Laravel, Paddle, Vimeo, the GitHub API and a couple of other things.
We've open-sourced our site. You'll find the actual code we have deployed in the spatie-be repo on GitHub. In this blog post, I'll guide you through the code.
Contributing to an open source PHP package
– johnbraun.blog - submitted by John Braun
In light of the upcoming Hacktoberfest, John Braun shares some tips for beginners who might want to make their first contribution specifically to a PHP package.
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Introducing Blade UI Kit
Dries Vints was a guest on my stream. He shared his newest project, called Blade UI Kit.
A package to run the Laravel scheduler without relying on cron
We released a new package called spatie/laravel-cronless-schedule. It can run the Laravel scheduler (or any other command really), without relying on cron. Instead of cron, a never-ending ReactPHP loop is used.
In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
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Together with my colleagues at Spatie, we have produced over 200 packages with more than 75 million downloads in total.
We learned a lot by quality packages like laravel-permission, laravel-backup, browsershot, laravel-medialibrary, and many more. We feel we have a pretty good workflow to produce reliable, readable, and maintainable packages.
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How we created over 200 PHP and Laravel packages
I work at and co-own a company named Spatie, which specializes in creating large Laravel applications for our clients. Our team is rather small: we consist of only 10 people. At first glance we are a software development company like there are so many others. But there’s one thing that sets our company apart: we have an open source first policy. We try to create and contribute to open source as much as possible.
Currently we have around 200 open source repositories on GitHub. Our packages have been downloaded nearly 75 million times. They are being downloaded 4,5 million times each month. Probably we will hit 100 million downloads by the end of this year.
We've also just released our premium video course, titled Laravel Package Training. In this course, we use our experience to teach you how to build reliable and maintainable packages.
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