Posts tagged with 'php' - Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI

Posts tagged with php

Develop faster by adding dev routes file in a Laravel app original

May 5th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Laravel's awesome closure based routing was probably one of the first features I fell in love with. I take it for granted now, but back in the days, such a simple way of adding a route felt like a glass of water in hell compared to the other frameworks.

Typically, you would only add routes that are necessary for the users of your app. Something that I have been doing for a long time is to create a routes file, called dev.php, with routes that can help with app development.

PHP's bus factor

May 4th 2021 – blog.krakjoe.ninja

PHP is a fantastic language that has seen many cool improvements over the past few years. What you may not be aware of is that only a very few people can work on the language itself. This is obviously not healthy and hopefully this situation will improve in the future.

Keep controllers clean by using form requests in Laravel original

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

Most people use form requests solely for validation, but they can also help to keep your controllers clean. Here's how we use them in Mailcoach

Exploring Event Sourcing (part 2) original

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

In this stream my colleague Brent and I continued our conversation about the foundations of event sourcing. This time we showed a shopping cart that we've built using Laravel and event sourcing.

If you're interested in learning more about event sourcing, be sure to check out our upcoming course on using event sourcing in Laravel.

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.

Function Inlining in PHP's Zend Engine

Apr 29th 2021 – php.watch

PHP has several over 30 functions at the moment that make use of special OPCodes or otherwise inlined to improve performance.

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.

Controlling the flow of time in your tests original

Apr 19th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Our test-time package makes writing tests, for code that makes its decisions based on the current time, very easy.

Here's how we use the package for some tests in Mailcoach.

Exploring event sourcing

Apr 14th 2021

My colleague Brent and I are currently preparing a premium course on event sourcing in Laravel. In this stream, we explained the foundations, shared some thoughs on some of the concept, and answered questions from the audience.

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.

Injecting Additional Data into Laravel Queued Jobs

Apr 14th 2021 – james.brooks.page

The Queue class contains a method named createPayloadUsing which allows you to register a callback that is executed when creating job payloads.

Starting with Event sourcing

Apr 13th 2021 – stitcher.io

Event sourcing is about storing changes, instead of their result. It's those changes that make up the final state of a project.

Better Laravel / PHP Code: five guidelines from Spatie

Apr 13th 2021

YouTube star Povilas Korop shares and discusses five rules from our guidelines.

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

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Handling console signals in Laravel original

Apr 5th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 7 minute read

When you cancel a long-running artisan command with Ctrl+C, a SIGINT signal is sent by the operating system to the PHP process. You can use this signal to perform some cleanup quickly.

Symfony 5.2 introduced support for handling signals in commands.

We've released a package called spatie/laravel-signal-aware-commands that provides a substantial improvement to how you can use these signals in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

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.

Improving Ignition's security

Apr 2nd 2021 – flareapp.io

A few days ago, you might have received a Dependabot security warning on Ignition concerning a remote code execution vulnarablity. This post on the Flare blog explains why most people shouldn't be effected by this.

How to Unit Test a Laravel API with the Pest Framework

Mar 30th 2021 – www.twilio.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro

In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at how to get started using Pest in a Laravel project. Using the test-driven approach, we’ll be building a simple to-do application that allows you to create, edit, update and delete tasks.

Why and how you should remove inactive users and teams original

Mar 29th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 8 minute read

There are many SaaS applications that allow potential new customers to try out the service using a trial period. Of course, not everybody will convert. After the trial period is over, some people will not use the service anymore. However, if nothing is being done about it, their email address and…

Nodes and the Visitor pattern

Mar 25th 2021 – lorisleiva.com - submitted by Loris

Learn why, when and how to structure your data as a cluster of nodes and how to execute various operations on that cluster via external visitors.