Announcing x-ray for Ray
– dev.to - submitted by Patrick
Using this package, you can quickly scan source code for calls to Ray
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Posts tagged with tool
Building a PHPUnit to Pest Converter in a week
Jason McCreary explains why and how he created his cool Pest converter
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
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Convert Guzzle requests to curl commands
I came across this cool package that helped me debug a weird request performed by Guzzle.
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Self hosting Google Fonts
To self-host, you need to download the fonts and write the appropriate @font-face CSS rules. Instead of doing this myself, Seb came across an excellent tool to streamline this process
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Exclude linting & formatting commits when running Git blame
As of Git 2.23 there is a way to configure a list of commits for git blame to ignore.
Read more [tekin.co.uk]
Things you didn't know you could diff in GitHub
Sebastian show a few cool things you can do when comparing changes in the GitHub UI
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Introducing Yarn 2
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A good overview of new things Yarn has to offer.
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Automatically convert your code to PHP 7.4 syntax using Rector
In PHP 7.4, two new features were introduced that I'd like to use in my packages and projects: short closures and typed properties. Even though an IDE can help with converting to the new syntax, I'd don't want to manually hunt down all the places where the new syntax can be used. Lucky there's a tool that can do this work automatically.
Switch PHP versions using Laravel Valet
I just found out that a recent version of #Laravel Valet introduced a "valet use php@version" command. Make sure you upgrade Valet to get this functionality. ? pic.twitter.com/JW99xfJNNb
— Kevin McKee (@iAmKevinMcKee) August 12, 2019
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Add a prefix to your Chrome tabs
Pro-tip: set custom prefixes for your local, staging and production environments using the Tab ReTitle Chrome extension ?
— Alex (@AlexVanderbist) July 15, 2019
Never accidentally debug the wrong tab again! https://t.co/hRfaKesKwL pic.twitter.com/DU1llvdpQd
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A package to use Artisan Tinker in your browser
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…
Honeybadger for Laravel Nova
Marcel Pociot recently created a Nova tool for Honeybadger. On their blog Marcel gives some interesting details on how it was created.
In the last weeks, I've been working with the team from Honeybadger on a custom resource tool to add Honeybadger error tracking output to Laravel Nova. It's a great addition to Nova and allows the developer to easily get access to error tracking information that, for example, is associated with specific users.
Read more [blog.honeybadger.io]
OCR in your terminal
?shell tip?
— Travis Northcutt (@tnorthcutt) September 6, 2018
brew install tesseract
alias ocr='screencapture -i ~/tmp/screenshot.png && tesseract ~/tmp/screenshot.png stdout | pbcopy && rm -f ~/tmp/screenshot.png'
Then, run `ocr` in your terminal, select text in an image, and...
✨it's copied to your clipboard ✨ pic.twitter.com/KEsiDasu8l
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Bringing Symfony's Var-Dump Server to Laravel
Marcel Pociot created another great package. laravel-dump-server will transmit all output of dump calls to another port on your system. This will avoid cluttering up the responses of your app with debug output. Here's a gif taken from the readme of the package:
https://github.com/beyondcode/laravel-dump-server
A PHP debugger written in PHP
Joe Watkins, core PHP developer and author of (amongst many other things) ptrheads, is busy creating a PHP debugger written in PHP that you can just composer require.
This isn't just pipe dreams, the PHP code exists, it's alpha quality and largely untested ...There is much to do and you shouldn't design your workflow around this (or any alpha quality software) yet. What you should do is start reading code, testing, and opening pull requests...
You'll find the code of Joe's debugger in this repo on GitHub.
Read more [blog.krakjoe.ninja]
Symfony now has an improved dump function
Let's talk a little bit about Symfony's dump function. It's part of their VarDumper component. The function can dump a variable to the screen or browser in a nicer format than PHP's native var_dump. In the recently released Symfony 3.4 and Symfony 4 the function got a nice little improvement that…
A ping command with a graph
Gping - like regular ping, but with a graph! https://t.co/bPKWkEA8Zk #linux #ubuntu
— Colin O'Dell (@colinodell) 30 oktober 2017
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A tool to automatically rerun PHPUnit tests when source code changes
In the JavaScript world Jest, built by Facebook, is an excellent tool to run tests. Not only can it automatically rerun your tests when source code changes, but there's also an interactive mode where you can set a filter on which tests to run while the tool is running. Would it be great if we could…
Improving the output of PHPUnit
Let's have a little fun! Yitzchok Willroth, better know as Coderabbi, created a new package that can improve the output of PHPUnit.
Here's what the output of a testrun looks like with his package installed.
A tool for making JavaScript code run faster
Even though I'don't like Facebook as a user, their amazing contributions to open source are something to be very grateful for. Last week they presented their new work in progress: Prepack.
Prepack is a tool that optimizes JavaScript source code: Computations that can be done at compile-time instead of run-time get eliminated. Prepack replaces the global code of a JavaScript bundle with equivalent code that is a simple sequence of assignments. This gets rid of most intermediate computations and object allocations.
It's still in development, so best not use it in production environments yet.