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Posts tagged with package

A Laravel package to crawl and index content of your sites original

Oct 19th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 12 minute read

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!

Introducing a new package to add a support form to your app original

Sep 2nd 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

We've created a new package that can render a beautiful support form widget on any page. You can read more about the package in this blog post at Flare.

In this stream, I'll show you how to use the package. We'll also source dive its code.

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Use Blink to execute something once and only once

Jul 23rd 2021 – sebastiandedeyne.com

Here's a neat use of our Blink package.

Introducing Laravel Google Fonts

Jul 5th 2021 – sebastiandedeyne.com

Sebastian made a pretty interesting package to self host Google Fonts

What's new in laravel-event-sourcing v5

Jun 15th 2021 – stitcher.io

Last week we released a new version of spatie/laravel-event-sourcing. Version 5 is probably one of the largest releases since the beginning of the package. We've worked several months on it and have been testing it extensively already in our own projects.

In this post, my colleague Brent will walk you through all the changes and new functionalities.

A Laravel package to dispatch jobs via Artisan original

Jun 14th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Our team has released a new Laravel package: spatie/laravel-artisan-dispatchable. This package allows you to dispatch any job from an artisan command.

In this blog post, I'd like to explain why we created the package and how you can use it.

A package to watch for file system changes in PHP original

May 12th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

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.

A lightweight solution for running PHP code concurrently original

May 3rd 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Our team released a new package called spatie/fork. Using this package you can easily execute multiple pieces of code concurrently.

Injecting extra data in the payload of queued jobs in Laravel original

Apr 20th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

I'm proud to announce yet another package by our team: spatie/laravel-interacts-with-payload. This one, which was inspired by a blog post by James Brooks, can inject data in all your jobs with just one line of code.

In this video, you'll see the package in action, I explain the internals and the tests. If you prefer reading, continue below the video.

A lightweight Laravel package to track changes over time original

Apr 14th 2021 by Alex Vanderbist and Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called spatie/laravel-stats. This package is a lightweight solution for summarizing changes in your database over time.

Data Transfer Object v3 has been released original

Apr 7th 2021 by Brent Roose and Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

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

Gotta love PHP 8

Very nice work by @brendt_gd pic.twitter.com/Sn1mS7R8Sv
— Freek Van der Herten 🎆 (@freekmurze) April 2, 2021

In this post I'd like to tell you more the package.

Creating a Laravel package from scratch original

Apr 5th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

In this stream, you'll see me lay the foundations for the spatie/laravel-signal-aware-command package.

Building a Laravel package from scratch original

Mar 10th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

In this streaming session, you can see me build up the package from scratch. You can find the code seen in the stream in the spatie/laravel-remote repo on GitHub. If you want to learn how to build PHP and Laravel packages, consider purchasing our Laravel Package Training video course.

A package to prefix ids in a Laravel app original

Feb 25th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

We've released a new package called spatie/laravel-prefixed-ids. In this post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

Creating a Ruby Gem for Ray

Feb 11th 2021

Ruby veteran Chris Oliver explained to me the basics of how to create a Ruby Gem (aka a Ruby package) for Ray. After I explained how Ray works internally, he coded up the foundation of the package. You'll find the code in this repo on GitHub.

You can watch our entire live code session here:

Using composer patches

Feb 3rd 2021 – www.rias.be

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.

Simplifying service providers in Laravel packages original

Jan 25th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

In almost every Laravel package, there is a ServiceProvider class responsible for registering bindings package resources such as config files, views, migrations, ...

While preparing a workshop that I gave on package development, I watched some videos of our own Laravel package training video course again. While watching the videos on using the service provider again, I had the idea to simplify how resources can be registered.

Meanwhile, I've fleshed out the idea and release it as a new package called laravel-package-tools. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.

A new major version of Flysystem

Jan 4th 2021 – blog.frankdejonge.nl

For those who missed it, a new major version of Flysystem was released on the 24th of November.

Stop duplicating your Eloquent query scopes and constraints. Re-use them as select statements with a new Laravel package.

Dec 2nd 2020 – protone.media - submitted by Pascal Baljet

Introducing a new Laravel package that allows you to re-use scopes as a boolean attribute on Eloquent models.

A better way to work with a backtrace in PHP original

Nov 24th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

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.

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