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Posts tagged with spatie

An unopinionated package to make Laravel apps tenant aware original

May 20th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read

Today we released a package to make Laravel apps tenant aware, called laravel-multitenancy. The philosophy of this package is that it should only provide the bare essentials to enable multitenancy.

The package can determine which tenant should be the current tenant for the request. It also allows you to define what should happen when switching the current tenant to another one.

It works for multitenancy projects that need to use one or multiple databases.

In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.

Building a realtime dashboard powered by Laravel, Livewire and Tailwind (2020 edition) original

Apr 29th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 24 minute read

At Spatie we have a TV screen against the wall that displays a dashboard. This dashboard displays the tasks our team should be working on, important events in the near future, which tasks each of our team members should be working on, what music they are listening to, and so on. Here's what it looks like:

dashboard

This dashboard is built using our laravel-dashboard package. It will allow you to built a similar dashboard in no time.

In this blogpost I'd like to walk you through both the dashboard and the package.

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Creating a Tweet wall in 3 minutes using Laravel Dashboard original

Apr 28th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

In this short video I demonstrate how you can display multiple Twitter feeds using laravel-dashboard. I will release the packages as soon as we hit 50 sponsors on GitHub.

A first look at the laravel-dashboard package

Apr 27th 2020

In this unrehearsed streaming session I show off how you can use the upcoming laravel-dashboard package to quickly build a beautiful dashboard that shows a realtime Twitter wall, a calendar tile that is fed by events coming from a Google Calendar, and a tile that displays the weather.

📺 A walkthrough of Laravel Backup Server original

Apr 21st 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

In this stream (which is the first I've ever done) I'll show you what you can do with our upcoming laravel-backup-server package and how it works under the hood.

A first look at laravel-backup-server

Apr 14th 2020

At Spatie we have 100+ servers that we manage for our clients. The past few weeks, I've invested some time in creating a new Laravel package, called laravel-backup-server that can back them all up. In the video below you'll get a first look at the package.

A package to dump anything to the log original

Apr 13th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

In this post, I'd like to show you a quick demo of our new package called laravel-log-dumper.

Some cool Laravel 7 Blade components original

Apr 2nd 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

One of my favourite new features of Laravel 7 are Blade components. The allow you to define custom html tags that are backed by Blade partials. In this blogpost I'd like to show you a couple very handy components.

This blogpost assumes that you already know how you can use Blade components.

🐟 A package to execute a random artisan command original

Apr 1st 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Aren't you tired of having to think about which artisan command to execute? The spatie/laravel-random-command package takes that pain away. It provides a random command that will pick a random command and execute it.

Blade Heroicons

Apr 1st 2020 – driesvints.com - submitted by Dries Vints

A package by Dries Vints to easily make use of the Heroicons built by Steve Schoger & Adam Wathan in your Laravel Blade views.

Native image lazy-loading for the web!

Mar 17th 2020 – addyosmani.com

Did you know modern browsers can lazy load images out of the box? Laravel-medialibrary now supports this too.

Mailcoach v2 has been released with support for custom HTML editors and multiple mailers original

Mar 12th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read

A couple of months ago, my team released Mailcoach, a self-hosted solution to send out newsletters. It sends out mail via services like Amazon SES, Mailgun, Sendgrid, and Postmark. It can optionally track opens and clicks. When your email list grows, this is a much more cost-effective solution when compared to a service like Mailchimp.

Mailcoach can be used as a premium Laravel package or as a stand-alone app. When installed into a Laravel app, it can be greatly customized. The Mailcoach stand alone app can be used without knowing how to program.

Today we're releasing v2 of Mailcoach. It offers support for Laravel 7, html editors, and multiple mailers, together with a bunch of quality of life improvements. In this blog post, I'd like to walk you through these features and show some technical details.

Pass Typescript-like Typed Objects and Arrays to Your Laravel Functions by Leveraging Data Transfer Objects

Mar 4th 2020 – github.com

Leonel Elimpe explains how you can use our DTO package.

Laravel Tail can now tail remote logs original

Feb 18th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

laravel-tail is one of my favourite packages. When installed in a Laravel app it can be used to tail the log file. To tail a log file locally, you just have to issue this command: php artisan tail and it'll start tailing the latest log file (so it works for both daily and single log files). Any line…

laravel-event-sourcing v3 has been released original

Feb 13th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Our spatie/laravel-event-sourcing package is probably the best starting point for event sourcing in Laravel. It has excellent docs, that explain event sourcing from scratch, support for aggregates, projectors, and much more! It's all beautifully integrated in Laravel.

Recently we released v3 of the package. In this blogpost I'd like to walk you through the changes.

A PHP package to execute commands via SSH original

Feb 12th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Our team released a new package called spatie/ssh. This package allows you to execute commands via an SSH connection.

Manage Docker containers using PHP original

Feb 10th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 7 minute read

Last week, my colleague Ruben and I released a package called spatie/docker, that makes it easy to spin up docker containers and execute commands on them. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce what you can do with it and why we built this.

Mailcoach's (lack of) JavaScript stack

Feb 3rd 2020 – sebastiandedeyne.com

In a new blogpost, my colleague Seb explains why he chose not to use any JavaScript framework for the interactive parts of Mailcoach

Pragmatically testing multi-guard authentication in Laravel original

Feb 3rd 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Last week our team launched Mailcoach, a self-hosted solution to send out email campaigns and newsletters. Rather than being the end, laughing something is the beginning of a journey. Users start encountering bugs and ask for features that weren't considered before.

One of those features requests we got, is the ability the set the guard to be used when checking if somebody is allowed to access the Mailcoach UI.

In this blog post, I'd like to show you how we implemented and tested this.

Building Mailcoach original

Jan 30th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 12 minute read

Today, our team released Mailcoach, a beautiful, self-hosted mailing list manager. It integrates with services like Amazon SES, Mailgun, or Sendgrid to send out mailings affordably. It’s packaged as a stand-alone app, or can be integrated into a Laravel project, it's perfect for bloggers, artisans, and entrepreneurs.

Even if you're not in the market for an email solution, Mailcoach includes a video course on how it’s built. I'm sure you'll see some valuable techniques that you can bring to your own project.

In this blogpost, I'd like to share why and how we've built this.

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I'm a Laravel developer at Spatie and Oh Dear. I maintain 300+ open source packages for the Laravel community.

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