github

All my posts about github.

GitHub discussions are now in public beta

Dec 9th 2020 – github.blog

Here's a list of things announced at the GitHub event earlier this month.

Moving PHP and Laravel tests from Travis CI to GitHub Actions original

Dec 8th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Earlier this year, Travis CI announced a new pricing model that effectively ends the generous open-source offering they had for many years. It seems that, even though there were some plans to provide free resources for OSS projects in the future, all activity for OSS projects has stopped.

At our company, we create a lot of open-source projects and packages. Beginning 2020, we already moved most of our stuff to GitHub actions.

Sure, you can read the GitHub actions docs to start learning the possibilities, but in my experience, it might be better to see some examples of practical uses cases. Here are some interesting links that might help you get started with GitHub actions.

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Laravel Worldwide Meetup #4: GitHub Actions & Unconventional Autoloaders original

Oct 28th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Here's the recording of Laravel Worldwide Meetup #4. Ryan Chandler showed a cool GitHub Action workflow to test a Laravel app. Next, Liam Hammet demonstrated some unconvential things you can do with PHP autoloaders.

On Issue Bumping

Oct 19th 2020 – blog.sindresorhus.com

A nice, concise post by Sindre Sorhus on when to issue bump and when not to.

Selling digital products using Laravel part 7: Importing package documentation from GitHub original

Oct 13th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

On our site you'll find the documentation of our bigger bigger packages, like laravel-medialibrary, laravel-backup, laravel-event-sourcing, ... Let's take a look at how that works.

Selling digital products using Laravel part 3: Giving customers access to private repositories on Github original

Oct 13th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Wouldn't it be great if we could automatically give customers access to the private repositories on GitHub for the products they bought? Let's take a look at how this is handled at spatie.be

Running GitHub Actions for Certain Commit Messages

Sep 30th 2020 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

A quick look at how you can configure your GitHub Actions workflows to only run when a certain phrase is present in the commit message.

Automating the Laravel 8 schema dump using GitHub Actions

Sep 16th 2020 – fidum.uk

Dan Manson explains how you can run that shiny new schema:dump command on GitHub actions. Pretty cool

Things you didn't know you could diff in GitHub

Aug 23rd 2020 – sebastiandedeyne.com

Sebastian show a few cool things you can do when comparing changes in the GitHub UI

How To Create A GitHub Profile README

Jul 17th 2020 – www.aboutmonica.com

Monica Powell explains how to customize your GitHub profile page.

How to use a MySQL database on GitHub Actions original

Mar 4th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Recently we started using GitHub Actions to test all our packages. You can read more about our general setup in this blog post.

For most of the packages, this works great. However, some of our packages, such as Laravel Tags, use JSON functions that are not available in SQLite. Luckily it's straightforward to use a database like MySQL in GitHub Actions.

Building and Deploying with Github Actions

Mar 3rd 2020 – driesvints.com - submitted by Dries Vints

Dries Vints wrote a short piece on setting up a continuous delivery pipeline with Github Actions.

Adding Commits to Someone Else's Pull Request

Feb 21st 2020 – tighten.co - submitted by Matt Stauffer

When getting an open source pull request, sometimes you'll need to make a change before merging. Here's how to do that.

Remove all history from a GitHub repository original

Jan 16th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

From time to time I need to remove all history from a GitHub repository, for instance right before releasing a package I've worked on in private. Sometimes I don't want people to see all mistakes I've made along the way :-).

Using GitHub actions to run the tests of Laravel projects and packages original

Jan 6th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 10 minute read

For many years we've relied on Travis to run the tests of our packages. For projects we used Circle CI. Recently we moved this responsibility from Travis and Circle CI to GitHub actions. In this blogpost I'd like to explain why and how we did this.

Getting started with GitHub Actions and Laravel

Dec 10th 2019 – rubenvanassche.com

My colleague Ruben explores the wonderful world of GitHub actions.

You can write workflows in YAML, which makes them easy to write and read. In the beta version of GitHub Actions you had to use Ocaml, which was quite hard to comprehend, and there was almost no documentation. If you were a bit frightened by the beta version, like me, then rest assured: the YAML version is easier to use, and the documentation is well written.

Testing your Laravel app using GitHub actions

Oct 7th 2019 – ma.ttias.be

Mattias Geniar explains how you can use GitHub actions to run the testsuite of your Laravel app.

Last year we wrote a blogpost about our setup we use for Oh Dear! with Gitlab, and how we use their pipelines for running our CI tests. Since then, we've moved back to Github since they introduced their free private repositories. In this post I'll describe how we re-configured our CI environment using Github Actions.

Run prettier or php-cs-fixer with GitHub Actions

Sep 23rd 2019 – stefanzweifel.io

Stefan Zweifel shared his GitHub action that can automatically fix code style issues using prettier and php-cs-fixer

One workflow is really like, is to run prettier and php-cs-fixer to automatically format my code and commit the fixed files back to the repository.

Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions and Laravel 6

Sep 11th 2019 – medium.com

Roberto B wrote a good tutorial on how to test your Laravel 6 application using GitHub actions.

The scenario that I would like to explain you is: I have a Web App based on Laravel 6, every time I push some new code on master branch on the GitHub repository, I would like to execute automatically Unit tests and Feature tests.

Easily share your public key stored on GitHub

Jan 23rd 2019 – twitter.com

Here’s another: see the public keys of a github user by adding ‘.keys’ to their profile URL:

? https://t.co/GaHnUISqM1
? https://t.co/zIeqVbxQbE
— Bramus! (@bramus) January 23, 2019