The Backend For Frontend Pattern
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Mohamed Said explains an interesting pattern for you to consider that can potentially make authenicating from the frontend easier.
architecture
All my posts about architecture.
An unopinionated package to make Laravel apps tenant aware original
by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read – Edit
Today we released a package to make Laravel apps tenant aware, called laravel-multitenancy. The philosophy of this package is that it should only provide the bare essentials to enable multitenancy.
The package can determine which tenant should be the current tenant for the request. It also allows you to define what should happen when switching the current tenant to another one.
It works for multitenancy projects that need to use one or multiple databases.
In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
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Complexity Has to Live Somewhere
What's the ideal amount of abstraction? When does a framework start having "too much magic"? When are there too many languages in an organisation?
Read more [ferd.ca]
Multitenancy in Laravel: Migrations, Testing, and switching tenants
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In this video, Mohammed Said shares a nice, clean strategy for multitenancy in Laravel.
Combining event sourcing and stateful systems
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In this two-part series, my colleague Freek and I will discuss the architecture of a project we're working on.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Mixing event sourcing in a traditional Laravel app original
by Freek Van der Herten – 10 minute read – Edit
Event driven server in PHP
– stitcher.io – Edit
Brent did a cool experiment with ReactPHP and event sourcing.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Behind the scenes of Flare (or How to structure big Laravel applications) original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
Capturing the World in Software
Very nice post by Jessica Joy Kerr on the benefits and tradeoffs of event sourcing.
We can get a complete, consistent model of a small piece of the world using Event Sourcing. This is powerful but expensive.
Read more [blog.jessitron.com]
Lost in transaction
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Bernd Ruecker talks about how determine the right level of consistency in distributed applications.
Design Principles of Vue 3.0
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Evan You explains the principles behind the changes coming in Vue 3.0
Fetching data in the perimeter of your Laravel applications
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Jonathan Reinink wrote another excellent blog post.
As much as possible, keep data fetching to the perimeter of your Laravel applications. What do I mean by this? In the simplest terms, it means running your database queries in your controllers.
Read more [reinink.ca]
Build your own React
In a very cool post, Rodrigo Pombo explains the internals of React by rewriting it's core from scratch.
We are going to rewrite React from scratch. Step by step. Following the architecture from the real React code but without all the optimizations and non-essential features.
Read more [pomb.us]
Getting started with Domain Oriented Laravel original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
A couple of days ago my colleague Brent published a blogpost on Domain Oriented Laravel. In short, he makes the case for organising your code around business concepts or features. That might sound very "heavy" or daunting, but it's actually for easy to get started with.
In this short video I explain how you can use PhpStorm to refactor your code. Make up your own mind if you need this in your projects.
Don't add an API too fast
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Not adding an API until absolutely necessary lets us keep our model internal and lets us iterate as needed.
— Matthieu Napoli (@matthieunapoli) October 10, 2019
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Software Architecture is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design is Underrated
Gergely Orosz argues that you should start with a simple design and try your best to keep it simple. I don't necessarily agree with everything in the post, but it's an interesting opinion nonetheless.
Software architecture best practices, enterprise architecture patterns, and formalized ways to describe systems are all tools that are useful to know of and might come in handy one day.
Read more [blog.pragmaticengineer.com]
Extracting doesn’t guarantee simplicity
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Extracting doesn’t guarantee simplicity. Sometimes extracting code into another module means I’ve smeared one “conceptual module” in my brain into two physical files. Now I can’t look at the whole thing at once, and their internal wiring is more prominent than it deserves. Oops.
— Dan Abramov (@dan_abramov) September 25, 2019
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How much JavaScript do we really need?
An interesting opinion written by my colleague Seb.
Over the years I’ve experimented with different strategies to build user interfaces. From sprinkling JavaScript over server side templates to full-blown SPAs. My conclusion up until now: we can do better.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
An alternative way to organize the Laravel directory structure
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I don't necessarly agree with every detail in this post, but it's very interesting to see how others structure larger projects.
In this article, I would like to show you an alternative way to organize your Laravel directory structure. I think the default structure is fine for the most projects. But when it comes down to larger projects I was looking for a different structure.
Read more [stefanbauer.me]
Creating beautiful status pages using Oh Dear! original
by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read – Edit
My buddy Mattias and I are running an uptime checker service called Oh Dear. Earlier this week, we've launched a new major feature: status pages.
In this blog post, I'd like to walk you through what status pages have to offer. We'll also dive deep in some technical details of the underlying Laravel app.
