Why we need named arguments in PHP
– stitcher.io – Edit
Brent wants you to vote yes. Here's why from the point of view of a userland developer, both for client projects and open source.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Announcing the Laravel Beyond CRUD video course and book original
by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read – Edit
I'm proud to announce our team is creating a new video course called Laravel Beyond CRUD. In this course, you'll learn various patterns to build a large scale Laravel app with your team. Even if you're not working on large Laravel apps, there are lots of things to learn to improve your projects.
This course will be offered as a premium video course, and as a book. The course will be presented by Brent, who is in the lead at various large scale client projects at Spatie. The book, also written by Brent, is beautifully designed by my colleague Seb.
At the Laravel Beyond CRUD website, you can subscribe to our email list. We'll notify you as soon as the course is available in September. We'll also mail you an extra preview.
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Snapshot through the heart
– madewithlove.com – Edit
Emma Febre wrote an interesting piece on the pittfals of using snapshots.
Read more [madewithlove.com]
Don't write your own framework
– stitcher.io – Edit
My colleague Brent shares a story to illustrate why you shouldn't write your own framework.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Avoid false positives by utilising magic values in your tests
– timacdonald.me – Edit
It can be very hard to spot a false positive within a test. So how do you avoid them?
Read more [timacdonald.me]
Who's scared of phantom types?
The usage of phantom types is a simple type level trick which can help with this in practical settings, without requiring complicated features or making your code too abstract and less readable.
Read more [marcosh.github.io]
Improving readability by decreasing indentation original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
Readability of code can be vastly improved by decreasing indentation. In this video we'll reverse conditions and early returns to accomplish this. If you want to see more videos like this one, head over to the video section at Spatie.
What your admin panel tells us about your company
– frederickvanbrabant.com - submitted by Frederick Vanbrabant – Edit
My buddy Frederick wrote an interesting post on why he always checks out the admin panel of an app instead of the code.
Read more [frederickvanbrabant.com]
In defence of mocking frameworks
Dave Marshall replies to a blogpost that Frank De Jonge published recently.
Read more [davedevelopment.co.uk]
Sharing PHP-CS-Fixer rules across projects and teams
– laravel-news.com – Edit
Tim MacDonald shares a nice way to go about this.
Read more [laravel-news.com]
Refactoring: Demeter-Wrapping
Geepaw Hill explains a way to avoid demeter violations.
Read more [www.geepawhill.org]
Directly assigning view variable
– Edit
🔥 Applications often have the most lines of code within controller actions.
— Jason McCreary (@gonedark) April 13, 2020
One practice to streamline your code is directly assigning view variables.
This also limits the use of temporarily variables and promotes abstractions which make the code more readable. pic.twitter.com/m0JGsybQ9k
The Beauty of Single Action Controllers
– driesvints.com - submitted by Dries Vints – Edit
Dries Vints wrote a bost on why he uses single action controllers.
Read more [driesvints.com]
Testing without mocking frameworks
A must read by Frank de Jonghe on testing.
Read more [blog.frankdejonge.nl]
Opting Out: A Simple Solution for Conditionally Cancelling Laravel Notifications
– tighten.co - submitted by Matt Stauffer – Edit
The average Laravel app sends between a few and a few dozen notifications to users, but what happens when they want to opt out? With legal regulations like GDPR, it's more important than ever to give users control over the emails they receive.
Read more [tighten.co]
Setting up a global .gitignore file
My colleague Seb explains why and how you should use a global .gitignore file
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Dropping support for a PHP version is not a breaking change
Seb explains why it's perfectly safe to drop a major version of PHP without tagging a new major version of a package.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Writing readable PHP: decrease indentation by returning early original
by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read – Edit
In this short post, I'd like to give you a tip on writing readable PHP.
How to write exceptionally good exceptions in PHP original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
In this video, which is part of the mailcoach video course, I show how I like to write my exceptions.
At the time of writing this post, we're running a contest where you can win a free mailcoach license.
How to refactor complex if statements original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
Have you every come across confusing if statements with complex conditionals such as this? I bet you did!
// please kill me 🤯 if (!(($this->shipping_country == "GB" || (strcmp($this-status, "Valid") !== 0)) {
To me, this is completely unreadable.
In the video below I show how I deal with this situation. Spoiler: add some tests around it and break the conditionals apart.
This video is part of the Mailcoach video course. It contains many more videos on how to write clear code. You can use this coupon code to get a nice discount of $10.
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