Freek Van der Herten's blog on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript

Posts tagged with spatie

A Laravel package to crawl and index content of your sites

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!

Replacing Keytar with Electron's safeStorage in Ray

Oct 18th 2021 by Adriaan Marain – 3 minute read

Ray is an app we built at Spatie to make debugging your applications easier and faster. Being web developers, we naturally decided to write this app in Electron, which enabled us to move from nothing to a working prototype to a released product on 3 separate platforms within a matter of weeks.

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Announcing x-ray for Ray

Sep 17th 2021 – dev.to - submitted by Patrick

Using this package, you can quickly scan source code for calls to Ray

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

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.

How to handle GitHub webhooks in a Laravel application

Jul 27th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Whenever something happens in one of your repos on GitHub, you can configure a webhook to be sent to your app. This way, you can perform some extra logic when a particular event occurs on the repo. A silly example would be to send someone a mail when an issue is opened.

We've created a new package called spatie/laravel-github-webhooks that makes it easy to consume GitHub webhooks in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

Announcing our Testing Laravel premium video course

Jul 26th 2021

Knowing how to write automated tests is a fundamental skill for any developer. By adding a quality test suite to your application, you'll end up with fewer bugs in production. It allows you to refactor with confidence using a test suite that has your back.

We're currently recording a new premium video course called Testing Laravel. It will be released in September.

Use Blink to execute something once and only once

Jul 23rd 2021 – sebastiandedeyne.com

Here's a neat use of our Blink package.

How to render markdown with perfectly highlighted code snippets

Jul 13th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 6 minute read

When reading technical blogpost around the web, you might have noticed that code highlighting is not always perfect.

Shiki is the code highlighter that uses the textmate parser VSCode uses under the hood. The code highlighting it provides is near perfect, even when using modern syntax. It supports 100+ languages (via our package Blade is supported too), and all VS Code themes.

I'm proud to announce that we have released three new Spatie packages that make it easy to use Shiki in your PHP projects:

shiki-php: makes it easy to call Shiki from PHP to highlight a given code snippet
commonmark-shiki-highlighter: allows commonmark to highlight all code snippets in a markdown fragment
laravel-markdown: a batteries included Laravel package that offers a Blade component to easily render Markdown with highlighted code snippets and a class to render Markdown manually.

We're already using this package to render all our documentation pages, our guidelines, and this very blog you are reading.

Source diving Laravel Artisan Dispatchable

Jul 8th 2021

In the second part of this stream, I'll walk you through the inner workings of our new spatie/laravel-artisan-dispatchable package.

Source diving Laravel Google Fonts

Jul 7th 2021

In the first part of this stream, my colleague Seb explains how spatie/laravel-google-fonts works under the hood.

Introducing Laravel Google Fonts

Jul 5th 2021 – sebastiandedeyne.com

Sebastian made a pretty interesting package to self host Google Fonts

Setting up and securing a private Composer repository

Jun 24th 2021 – alexvanderbist.com

Alex explains how we use Satis to give users of paid Spatie products access to private repos.

Laravel Transporter, how to make OOP API requests

Jun 23rd 2021 – www.juststeveking.uk - submitted by Steve McDougall

Laravel transporter is an easy to use wrapper around Laravel PendingRequest that allows you to define requests as classes, and override options at run time when you need to.

A Laravel package to dispatch jobs via Artisan

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 new design for Ignition

Jun 3rd 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

A couple of years ago, Ignition became the default error page in Laravel.

Ignition provided a vastly improved design over Whoops: it brought Laravel specific niceties (such as showing the routing, queries) and the ability to display and even run solutions (e.g. generating an app key).

At Spatie, we think we can improve the design of Ignition even more. Our initial plan was to release this new design in tandem with Laravel 9 as a big bang surprise release. We've changed our mind on this because we'd like to have feedback from the community.

In this blog post, I'd like to share our ideas and plans for Ignition.

A package to watch for file system changes in PHP

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

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.

Easily test large chunks of output using snapshots

Apr 26th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

In this video we'll take a look at how large chunks of output can be tested in Mailcoach using snapshots.

Injecting extra data in the payload of queued jobs in Laravel

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

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.