Laravel facades vs class aliases
– svenluijten.com - submitted by Sven
Diving into the difference between Laravel's facades and PHP's class aliases.
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architecture
All my posts about architecture.
Sniffing out stray ray() calls with Pest architecture testing
– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
Whether you're building a shiny new feature or refactoring a bug deep in a legacy codebase, before you merge your work to production you want to get rid of all those ray() calls you littered the codebase with.
Read more [myray.app]
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The infamous Repository Pattern in PHP
– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
The repository pattern is a data source abstraction that behaves like a collection; containing domain (value) objects. In this post we'll be exploring what a repository is, and what it is not.
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Using interfaces in third-party packages
– svenluijten.com - submitted by Sven
How to effectively use interfaces to make your PHP package easier to work with and more customizable than ever before.
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What is a Command Bus?
– www.youtube.com - submitted by Andrew Cairns
Take a quick look at what is a Command Bus and develop a mental model on how to think about it and it's purpose.
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Laravel Under The Hood - Facades
– blog.oussama-mater.tech - submitted by Oussama Mater
LLaravel offers an elegant method-calling feature called Facades. At first glance, they resemble static methods, but well, they are not! What kind of magic is Laravel doing?
Read more [blog.oussama-mater.tech]
Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Over-engineering vs under-engineering
– davorminchorov.com - submitted by Davor Minchorov
Everyone talks about over-engineering but people rarely talk about under-engineering. Learn about the differences and how they depend on the context you are in.
Read more [davorminchorov.com]
Examples of Great URL Design
Here are some cool ways to structure URLs
Read more [blog.jim-nielsen.com]
Building a flexible yet abstract external integrations structure
– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie
In this post we'll describe how we created a flexible yet abstract external integrations structure for Flare.
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Choose Postgres queue technology
A nice intro into using Postgres as your queuing solution, and some nice thoughts abou the importance of scale.
Read more [adriano.fyi]
Laravel Folio deep dive
– ahmedash.dev - submitted by Ahmed Ammar
Diving into the core of Folio understanding how it works under the hood!
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Thoughts on event sourcing: Replaying events
I don’t believe in the promise of cheap replays in event sourcing. They come with a cost, but can be very useful for the right problems.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Using Laravel queues with other languages
– fly.io - submitted by Chris Fidao
Utilize the best parts of any language to perform work for your Laravel app! Any language can and push and pull jobs to/from Laravel queues. Here's how.
Read more [fly.io]
Behind The Scenes Of Oh Dear
In this sponsored talk given at Laracon India 2023, I demo all major Oh Dear features. After that, I share how the Laravel app behind Oh Dear is structured using domains.
The audio quality is not perfect, but it should still be understandable.
Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil
Before you write any code — ask if you could ever possibly want multiple kinds of the thing you are coding. If yes, just do it. Now, not later.
Read more [www.swyx.io]
Kill Switches: Interrupting Long-Running Processes
– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
Have you ever heard of a “kill switch”—a device meant to disable machinery if its owner is incapacitated? Turns out you can also build kill switches into your code. Tony shares four kill switch examples for Laravel applications.
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Locality of Behavior
– www.eloquentarchitecture.com - submitted by John Freeman
The LoB principle dictates that the behavior of a unit of code should be as obvious as possible by looking only at that unit of code. But I think something is missing from this discussion.
Read more [www.eloquentarchitecture.com]
You might not need a repository in Laravel: 3 alternatives
– medium.com - submitted by Mazen Touati
We will crack the controversy of the repository pattern in Laravel. The good and the bad, and what alternatives we can use to build a maintainable codebase.
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Using jobs instead of commands in the schedule of a Laravel app original
In a standard Laravel application, you can schedule Artisan commands in your console kernel. While that works for most projects, we took a different route in Mailcoach. Instead of scheduling commands, we're scheduling jobs.
Read more [mailcoach.app]
Granular interfaces
As a system evolves, abstractions should arise from current needs, not future possibilities.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
