design patterns

All my posts about design patterns.

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What is a Command Bus?

Jan 22nd 2024 – 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.

Laravel Under The Hood - Facades

Jan 12th 2024 – 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?

Hands-on decoration

Dec 8th 2023 – muhammedsari.me - submitted by Muhammed Sari

Mastering elation with the decorator foundation! Let's take a look at how we can leverage this simple, yet powerful design pattern in the context of a Laravel package.

Best Practices for Using PHP Enumerations

Nov 16th 2023 – jeffochoa.me - submitted by Jeff

Although PHP Enumerations are meant to provide an easy and elegant solution to work with a predefined set of values, these classes are often misused, resulting in a lack of consistency due to the introduction of all sorts of methods that increase their complexity. In this article, we are going to go through some practices (both good and bad) with the goal of clarifying the understanding of these types of objects to help you build a more resilient and consistent codebase.

Building a flexible yet abstract external integrations structure

Sep 27th 2023 – flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie

In this post we'll describe how we created a flexible yet abstract external integrations structure for Flare.

Building Resilient Code: Harnessing the Power of Value Objects

Jul 26th 2023 – www.conroyp.com - submitted by Paul Conroy

Value objects are a great way to add safety and consistency to PHP applications, while improving readability & testability. Let's dive into what they are, what they're not (DTOs!), and how they can help us improve our code quality.

Encapsulating Polymorphism

May 15th 2023 – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

In this post, Andrew presents several patterns in polymorphic database relationships in Laravel that allow us to eliminate conditionals.

Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil

Mar 13th 2023 – www.swyx.io

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.

You might not need a repository in Laravel: 3 alternatives

Feb 1st 2023 – 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.

Easy, alternative soft deletion: `deleted_record_insert`

Jan 17th 2023 – brandur.org

Here's a strategy for soft deletes where you move data to another table instead of leaving it in-place.

SDKs, The Laravel Way

Dec 8th 2022 – www.eloquentarchitecture.com - submitted by John Freeman

Each call to the builder will modify the underlying pending request. Every modification, another link in the chain, that will be sent, finally, with get().

Read more [www.eloquentarchitecture.com]

What are contract tests?

Oct 20th 2022 – www.kai-sassnowski.com

Here's how you can make sure that all implementations of an interface behave correctly

Is it a DTO or a Value Object?

Sep 20th 2022 – matthiasnoback.nl

Matthias Noback explains the difference.

Granular interfaces

Sep 16th 2022 – sebastiandedeyne.com

As a system evolves, abstractions should arise from current needs, not future possibilities.

The difference between Traits, Interfaces, and Abstract Classes in PHP

Aug 8th 2022 – aschmelyun.com - submitted by Andrew Schmelyun

If you've been working with PHP regularly, chances are you've run across an Interface, Trait, or Abstract Class. At first glance, they might appear to have a few similarities between them, and it can be hard to make out their differences and use cases.

The Slotted Counter Pattern

Aug 8th 2022 – planetscale.com

A very nice technique to decrease concurrency and prevent deadlocks.

Restructuring a Laravel Controller using Services, Events, Jobs, Actions, and more

Jun 1st 2022 – laravel-news.com

Laravel gives you the flexibility to choose the structure of controllers yourself, which is both a blessing and a curse. You won't find any recommendations in the official Laravel docs, so let's try to discuss various options, based on one specific example.

Use Laravel's HTTP Client with Facebook's Business SDK

May 31st 2022 – stefanzweifel.io - submitted by Stefan Zweifel

Ever needed to work with an SDK and wished you could use Http::fake() in your Laravel tests? This blog post explains how you can achieve this for the Facebook Business SDK using the Adapter pattern.

Laravels Command Bus

May 17th 2022 – www.juststeveking.uk - submitted by Steve McDougall

In Laravel 5.1 the Command Bus was replaced with Dispatchable Jobs, we can still use them but let us also look at how to add a Command Bus.

Adapter Pattern in PHP

May 16th 2022 – www.juststeveking.uk - submitted by Steve McDougall

Of all of the design patterns you could use in your code, the adapter pattern is one of my all time favourites. It allows you to abstract the implementation to an adapter that implements an interface. so you can switch implementation simply by switching the adapter.