Building a micro dependency container, because why not?
– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie – Edit
Here's why and how we added a mini container in a framework agnostic package.
Read more [flareapp.io]
architecture
All my posts about architecture.
How Geocodio keeps 300M addresses up to date
– www.geocod.io – Edit
Using a Laravel pipeline is always nice to structure a process like this.
Read more [www.geocod.io]
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The polyglot stack — PHP & GoLang
– themsaid.com – Edit
A polyglot architecture combines PHP and GoLang to leverage their strengths. PHP enables rapid development, while Go optimizes resource utilization.
Read more [themsaid.com]
A Guide to Laravel Pipelines
– ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen – Edit
Learn how to use the Pipeline class in Laravel to break complex workflows into smaller, isolated, focused processes. We'll then look at how to test our Laravel pipelines.
Read more [ashallendesign.co.uk]
Tagged Singletons
– stitcher.io – Edit
Tempest, the framework Brent Roose is working on, allows you to attach a tag to a singleton definition, which means you can have multiple singletons of the same class, as long as their tags differ.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Architecture Testing in Laravel with Pest
– ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen – Edit
Read about how to use Pest to add architecture tests for your PHP application and enforce standards such as folder structures, naming conventions, and more.
Read more [ashallendesign.co.uk]
Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Thinking Data vs Thinking Business Processes
– davorminchorov.com - submitted by Davor Minchorov – Edit
Learn about the differences between thinking in terms of data (CRUD) vs thinking in terms of business processes (behaviour) and how it affects code maintainability.
Read more [davorminchorov.com]
Laravel Under The Hood - The Strategy Pattern
– blog.oussama-mater.tech - submitted by Oussama Mater – Edit
Have you ever wondered how Laravel switches between different drivers' implementations? Well, hang tight, we will learn how!
Read more [blog.oussama-mater.tech]
Laravel facades vs class aliases
– svenluijten.com - submitted by Sven – Edit
Diving into the difference between Laravel's facades and PHP's class aliases.
Read more [svenluijten.com]
Sniffing out stray ray() calls with Pest architecture testing
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]
The infamous Repository Pattern in PHP
– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg – Edit
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.
Read more [doeken.org]
Using interfaces in third-party packages
– svenluijten.com - submitted by Sven – Edit
How to effectively use interfaces to make your PHP package easier to work with and more customizable than ever before.
Read more [svenluijten.com]
What is a Command Bus?
– www.youtube.com - submitted by Andrew Cairns – Edit
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 – Edit
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 – Edit
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 – Edit
In this post we'll describe how we created a flexible yet abstract external integrations structure for Flare.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Choose Postgres queue technology
– adriano.fyi – Edit
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 – Edit
Diving into the core of Folio understanding how it works under the hood!
Read more [ahmedash.dev]
