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A Laravel package to flash messages original

Mar 18th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

For the past few years, we've been using the laracasts/flash package to flash messages in all projects. In case you don't know: a flash message is a message that is being passed from a request to only the next request. The Laracasts package does its job pretty well. It has support for multiple flash messages, overlay messages. It comes with bootstrap styling out of the box and a few messaging levels preconfigured.

We've noticed that in our projects we only use a tiny bit of functionality from the laracasts/flash. That's why we whipped up our own lightweight package called spatie/laravel-flash. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce it to you.

A package to create personal data exports original

Mar 11th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

One of the good things that GDPR brought us was the right to data portability. Shortly put, this means that an app should be able to export all data that it has for a user.

Because we have multiple apps at Spatie that need to create such an export, we decided to extract our solution to a package called laravel-personal-data-export. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.

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A package to handle enums

Feb 18th 2019 – stitcher.io

Recently we released a new package called enum. In a new post on his blog Brent tells you what the benefit of working with enums is and how our package differs from the alternatives.

Today I want to explore some of the difficulties we encounter when solving problems like enums in userland. I'll talk about my personal take on enums, and we'll ponder on core support.

An auto theme for Laravel Webtinker

Feb 18th 2019 – twitter.com

? laravel-web-tinker now has an auto theme. Currently it only works in Safari Technology preview. Hopefully support for this will come to the stable editions of all major browsers. Thanks @willemvbockstal for the PR! ?https://t.co/gbUvh4nIIw https://t.co/jwDKHsgtur
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) February 12, 2019

A package to use Artisan Tinker in your browser original

Feb 11th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Laravel comes with a very handy tinker command out of the box. Unfortunately running multiple lines of code on the command line, or editing the code you just executed, can be a bit bothersome. That's why we created a new package called laravel-web-tinker that allows you to run arbitrary code in your…

The Laracon EU 2018 videos have been released.

Jan 28th 2019

The past few days videos have been added to the Laracon EU channel on YouTube. It now contains recordings of all talks given at the 2018 edition of the conference.

Here's a playlist that contains all videos of the 2018 editions.

Below you can watch the talk I gave on our medialibrary.

laravel-backup v6 has been released original

Jan 8th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

laravel-backup is a Laravel package that can backup your application. It can create a zip containing a dump of your database together with other files that you can select. Using the power of Laravel's filesystem abstraction this zip can than be uploaded to one or more remote filesystems. The package…

Preventing spam submitted through forms original

Jan 7th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

When adding a form to a public site, there's a risk that spam bots will try to submit it with fake values. We recently released a new package, called laravel-honeypot, that can detect these spammy requests. How honeypots work The majority of spam bots are pretty dumb. You can thwart most of them by…

A recap of 2018 original

Dec 29th 2018 by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read

Now that 2018 is coming to a close, a lot of awesome people have written a recap post. Here's mine! The most significant change on a personal level is that my girlfriend an I bought a house in Ghent. Together with our two kids, we moved this summer, and we now live in an awesome house that's very…

Global Application Settings in Laravel

Dec 7th 2018 – laravel-news.com

In a post on Laravel News, Tim MacDonald shares how you can use our valuestore package to power a settings function.

I really like the simplicity this package introduces to enable you to store some loose values. I’ve always felt storing this kind of data in the database with some sort of key / value pair setup was never quite right.

How to backup your app and database to Google Drive

Dec 6th 2018 – medium.com

Dennis Smink wrote a nice post on how you can use our backup package to backup your application to Google Drive. He includes all steps necessary to authenticate with Google Drive.

Backups are important, period. You will be needing these once your server or server provider suddenly dies. In this tutorial I will cover how to setup Google Drive backup, with Spatie’s backup package, Googles Flysystem and Laravel.

Highlighting code blocks with league/commonmark

Dec 5th 2018 – sebastiandedeyne.com

My colleague Seb wrote a cool package that adds tags and classes to code blocks in html, so they can be highlighted with css.

I created a spatie/commonmark-highlighter package that supports higlighting with CommonMark. After you register two custom renderers, all code blocks will receive a set of tags and classes, so they're already prepped to be highlighted by CSS when your content arrives in the browser.

? Four years of murze.be ?

Nov 27th 2018

4 years ago I started this blog as a tool to share interesting blogposts I found around the web. On each anniversary of my blog I published some interesting stats on the blog. This year is no different.

Between November 2017 and november 2018 this blog served 728 243 pages, a good increase compared to the 591 113 pageview from the previous period. There are 1 217 published posts, of which 195 I've written myself. The others ones are links to other blogs.

Last year in November I moved this blog from WordPress to a custom made Laravel app. A few months ago I removed the handcrafted admin section in favor of Laravel Nova. I'm really glad that I now have full control over my blog and not tied to WordPress anymore. I also opensourced the Laravel app. You can find the source code in this repo on GitHub.

These were the ten most visited posts of the past 12 months:

I do hope you still enjoy reading this blog!

Building a realtime dashboard powered by Laravel, Vue, Pusher and Tailwind (2018 edition) original

Nov 18th 2018 by Freek Van der Herten – 23 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…

Making Nova fields translatable original

Nov 5th 2018 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

Laravel Nova is cool package to quickly create admin interfaces in a Laravel app. Unfortunately there's no support for multiple locales out of the box. A while ago we published a package called nova-translatable that makes any of the built in field types translatable. Using the package In order to…

Our packages have been downloaded 20 million times original

Oct 26th 2018 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

At Spatie we do a lot of open source work. You can find a list of our packages on the open source section of our website. I'm proud to share that, according to Packagist, the Spatie packages have now been downloaded over 20 million times. The rate at which they are being downloaded is growing too.…

Laravel domains

Oct 16th 2018 – stitcher.io

My colleague Brent shares how we've been structuring our non-trivial projects at Spatie.

In this post we'll look at a different approach of structuring large code bases into separate domains. The name "domain" is derived from the popular paradigm DDD, or also: domain driven design.

Use custom html components in your Blade views original

Oct 1st 2018 by Freek Van der Herten – 7 minute read

Today we launched our newest package called BladeX. In short this package provides you with an easy html like way to render custom html components in your Blade views. In this blogpost I'd like to introduce the package to you. A first example When building a server rendered app you're probably going…

Introducing BladeX View Models original

Oct 1st 2018 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Earlier today we released BladeX, a package that allows you to use Blade components using a Vue inspired syntax. Read all about it in my previous blogpost. In the latest North Meets South podcast Jacob and Michael discussed BladeX and wondered if the package could be married with view models or…

A tags field for Nova apps original

Sep 17th 2018 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

A while ago I ditched the custom admin of this blog in favour of Laravel Nova. As you might have noticed every blog post on murze.be has some tags. Nova ships with many form fields but a field to use tags is not included out of the box. That's why I created my own tags field and released it as…