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A package to add comments to your Laravel app

by Freek Van der Herten – 10 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new premium package called Laravel Comments. Using this package, you can set up a comments section in your Laravel app in no time.

We've made a nice, errr I mean epic launch movie to get you in the right mood.

Laravel Comments includes a Livewire component to render comments. Here's what it looks like:

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Of course, we wrote extensive documentation, covering every aspect of Laravel Comments.

It comes with batteries included:

  • comments can be nested
  • emoji reactions
  • notifications to all participants when a new comment is posted
  • an inline approval flow for new comments
  • markdown editing and code highlighting
  • endlessly customisable

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

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A package to create Livewire powered wizards in no time

by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called laravel-livewire-wizard. Using this package, you can set up multi-step wizards quickly using Livewire.

The package is headless, which means that it provides no UI itself, but it makes it easy to build any UI you desire.

You can easily control which step is displayed, access state of other steps, and build any navigation you desire.

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

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Introducing Visit: a CLI tool made for humans to make network requests

I'm happy to announce that we have released Visit. This tool can display the response of any URL. Think of it as curl for humans. By default, the output will be colourized, and the response code and time will be displayed after the response.

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JSON responses will be colourized by default as well.

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And there's integration with Laravel: it can log in any user, report the numbers of queries used to build up the response, and more.

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I'd like to tell you all about it in this blog post.

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Invading private properties and methods in PHP

Last week, Caleb tweeted about a nifty function called invade - that he had made to easily work with private properties and methods.

He added that invade function to Livewire. Because I could see myself using this in non-Laravel projects, I packaged up the function in a new package called spatie/invade.

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A Laravel package to monitor the health of your application

by Freek Van der Herten – 15 minute read

I'm proud to announce that we've released a new package called Laravel Health. As the name implies, this package can be used to monitor the health of your Laravel application.

It offers many checks out of the box, and an easy way to create custom checks. When something is wrong, you can get a notification, or view the status on a dashboard.

The package also offers deep integration with Oh Dear, allowing for even more robust monitoring

I want to tell you all about it in this blog post. Let's go!

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Avoid describing your data multiple times in a Laravel app using laravel-data

by Ruben Van Assche – 12 minute read

In the vast majority of applications you work with data structures. Sometimes that data is described multiple times. Think for instance of a form request that tries to validate a blog post model, and an API transformer class for that same blog post model. Changes are that both classes describe the same properties.

Using our new laravel-data package, those structures only need to be described once.

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