What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres
Postgres has many nuances and best practices that are important to understand.
Read more [challahscript.com]
Laravel Custom Query Builders Over Scopes
While scopes are useful for simple queries, custom query builders are preferred for complex or frequently used queries.
Read more [blog.oussama-mater.tech]
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5 Ways to Extract Value from Overmocked Tests
Tomas shares his approach to get the most out of mocks, drop dead code, and make tests more valuable.
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Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Data Transfer Objects
– davorminchorov.com - submitted by Davor Minchorov
Learn about data transfer objects, why they are useful and why it's better to use them over arrays.
Read more [davorminchorov.com]
A Case For Custom Collections
– alsterholm.com - submitted by Andreas Alsterholm
A blog post explaining some benefits (and drawbacks) of using custom Eloquent collections.
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To double quote or not, that's the question!
– dev.to
Spoiler: it doesn't really matter anymore as long as you're using a modern version of PHP
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Reasons you don't need a modal
This site offers some good alternatives for modals
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Top 10 PHP Features You Can Use in 2024
– backpackforlaravel.com - submitted by Karan Datwani
Read more [backpackforlaravel.com]
Handling large JSON payloads and extending the Request class
– geoligard.com - submitted by Goran Popović
See how to easily modify and override methods found in the framework's Request class in order to handle specific routes with sizeable payloads.
Read more [geoligard.com]
Benefits of writing clean, maintainable code.
– jump24.co.uk - submitted by jamie peters
We all strive to write good code when we jump onto a project but sometimes do you wonder why?
The post covers
- Why you should write clean code
- Techniques for writing cleaner code
The techniques here are useful for all level of developers and worth a quick skim over as we all nothing wrong with a quick refresher
Read more [jump24.co.uk]
Livewire Strict: Enforce additional security measures to Livewire
– wire-elements.dev - submitted by Philo
Livewire Strict helps enforce security measures and prevents you from having unprotected sensitive public properties.
Read more [wire-elements.dev]
Mastering Programming
Some great insights by Kent Beck
Read more [tidyfirst.substack.com]
I write my code in the controller
– hakanaktas.com.tr - submitted by Hakan
A pragmatic approach to avoiding early optimizations
Read more [hakanaktas.com.tr]
Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Thinking Data vs Thinking Business Processes
– davorminchorov.com - submitted by Davor Minchorov
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]
Primitive Obsession: what it is, how to spot it and, how to fix it!
– acairns.co.uk - submitted by Andrew Cairns
Explains what the Code Smell 'Primitive Obsession' is, the damage it can cause to your codebase, how to spot it and - how to fix it!
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Elevate Your Laravel Eloquent Queries with Tappable Scopes
– seankegel.com - submitted by Sean Kegel
Use tappable scopes in Laravel to break down complex queries into reusable pieces without needing to use magic query scopes in Laravel.
Read more [seankegel.com]
How to Refactor a Method With Optional Params
– lukapeharda.com - submitted by Luka Peharda
Read how I fixed performance issues when refactoring and optimising legacy code with method signature inconsistency, done unintentionally by developer
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Why we use Inertia with Laravel in 2024
– atlas.dev - submitted by Mitchell Davis
This article outlines why we use Inertia with Laravel at our agency in 2024, and makes the case for why you should consider using Inertia too.
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Laravel Artisan Command Dependency Injection
You should consider using the handle() method for dependency injection in Artisan commands, rather than __construct().
Read more [ides.dev]
Retry mechanisms in Laravel
– ahmedshamim.com - submitted by Ahmed Shamim
Laravel provides some excellent 'Retry' mechanisms out of the box for handling transient failures! In this article, we'll learn about these mechanisms to build a reliable system using Laravel!
Read more [ahmedshamim.com]
