Exploring Laravel Stubs
Here's a nice video from Povilas in which he explores our spatie/laravel-stubs package.
I shall define this only once
Here's my talk on our popular Laravel Data package, which I gave at Laracon Online earlier this week.
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How to Produce High-Quality Programming Screencasts
Good tips by Jeffrey Way
Read more [laracasts.com]
How the Laravel Login Link package works under the hood
Povilas Korop of Laravel Daily made a cool video on the internals of our spatie/laravel-login-link package.
PHP isn't dead
Last month, The Laravel Documentary was released which showed the history behind Laravel. For the documentary a lot of people that are active in the Laravel community were interviewed.
From the footage that did not make into the documentary, the makers behind the documentary distilled a cool new short movie about PHP.
I'm honoured the some of my interview snippets made the cut. 😎
Testing the homepage of a Laravel app using Pest
Getting started with testing is not that hard. Here's a free video taken from the Testing Laravel course that will show you how you can make sure you homepage works.
Read more [spatie.be]
Laravel Origins: The Documentary
This is an amazing documentary that shows the origins of Laravel, and it's 12 year journey. I'm honoured being a part of this.
What's new in Laravel 9
In this video, Jeffrey Way of Laracasts shares all the cool new stuff in Laravel 9.
The Laracon Summer 2021 videos have been released.
Last year, Laracon held another online edition in the summer. All of the videos are now publicly viewable. You'll find them in this playlist on YouTube.
I had the honour of doing a short talk on snapshot testing in PHP, which you can watch below.
Modelling Tetris in PHP
In a few lenghty sessions on YouTube, you can watch Shawn McCool build Tetris using PHP
Geeking Out Over PHP
I was recently interviewed on my journey in PHP by the good folks at Kong. During this session you'll also see me demoing Ray.
Simulate production in your Laravel tests
In this video, Michael steps a natural approache on how to test environment specific functionality.
Laravel Package Training v2 is now available
I am excited to share that my team and I have just launched v2.0 of our Laravel Package Training video course.
Here's a the introductory video for the course:
Laravel Worldwide Meetup #11: Building APIs & Models/Spotlight With Livewire
Here's the recording of the latest edition of the Laravel Worldwide meetup. Philo Hermans showed off two great Livewire packages that he made. Steve McDougall did a cool live coding session on how to build APIs. And at the end, our suprise guest Caneco gave a nice little presentation on Lumen as…
Exploring Blade internals
Liam Hammet explores the inner workings of Blade.
You will find all videos in this playlist on YouTube.
The benefits of testing (video)
In this video, which is part of the Testing Laravel video course, I explain the benefits of testing.
Read more [spatie.be]
How to convert a PHPUnit Testsuite to Pest
While recording videos for the Testing Laravel video course, I became a big fan of Pest, a test runner that tries to optimize the developer experience. I'm now using Pest as the default for testing new packages and projects.
I've also converted a couple of existing testsuites from PHPUnit to Pest. Luckily, this is a very easy process. In this video I'll show you how to get started. You'll see that it only takes a couple of minutes.
Building a simple dashboard using Tailwind
In this stream, Shruti Balasa show how powerful Tailwind is. She builds a simple dashboard layout in only a couple of minutes. If you want to learn more about Tailwind, consider buying a ticket for her online workshop at Full Stack Europe. You can get a 20% discount for Shruti's workshop by using…
A free Alpine.js video course
In this entirely free video course, you'll learn how to use Alpine.js, a minimal JS framework that I'm using myself on a couple of projects
Read more [codecourse.com]
Glowing Background Gradient Effects with Tailwind CSS
Yet another nice video by Simon on cool things you can do with Tailwind.