– stefanzweifel.dev - submitted by Stefan Zweifel
Do you create automated backups of your database? Are you sure they work? laravel-backup-restore is a new package than can help you verify the integrity of your backups.
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I'm proud to announce that we've released a new package called spatie/laravel-prometheus. Using this package, you can send all sorts of metrics (user counts, subscription counts, queue workloads) around your Laravel to Prometheus and visualize the historical trends using Grafana.
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– fly.io - submitted by Chris Fidao
Utilize the best parts of any language to perform work for your Laravel app! Any language can and push and pull jobs to/from Laravel queues. Here's how.
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– fly.io - submitted by Kathryn Anne Tan
In this article we remove the need to get entire datasets in order to make Client Side Pagination work. Instead, we get the dataset in lighter, less heavier parts!
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– barreto.jp - submitted by Juan Pablo
Tutorial on building your first ChatGPT plugin with Laravel step by step.
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I'm happy to share that we have released our latest package, spatie/laravel-blade-comments.
This package can add comments to your rendered HTML output. For each Blade view that was used to build up the response, it adds start and ending comments.
– 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.
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– vanrossum.dev - submitted by Jeffrey van Rossum
DropBlockEditor, a drag and drop editor made with Livewire, is now available in pre release. This article tells you more about it and gives you an idea of how you could use it.
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– fly.io - submitted by Chris Fidao
You can instrument your Laravel apps by having it publish Prometheus metrics. With the help of Prometheus, you can use Grafana to create dashboards and alerts to monitor your apps.
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Here's the recording of the Laravel Worldwide Meetup which was held last week.
– www.youtube.com - submitted by Bert De Swaef
The entire playlist of our Laravel for Beginners course. You'll learn about model, controllers, factories, seeders, relations and many more.
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– fly.io - submitted by Johannes Werbrouck
Invoicing is boring and manually writing up invoices even more so, that's why you should automate the entire process in your app. Here, I show you how to use Spatie’s wonderful Browsershot package to do just that.
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– blog.oussama-mater.me - submitted by Oussama Mater
This article shows how to implement real-time notifications using Server-Sent Events instead of WebSockets or Long Polling.
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– innocenzi.dev - submitted by Enzo Innocenzi
Back in september 2022, a new "scoped" filesystem driver has been introduced to Laravel. This article shows how to use it to improve file management and refactoring.
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– fly.io - submitted by Chris Fidao
Use Laravel's new Process facade while avoiding issues related to processing stdout vs stderr output, environment variables, and PHP security settings.
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– arunas.dev - submitted by Arunas
If you have jobs and listeners being fired within database transactions, it can lead to data inconsistencies if the transaction rolls back. Learn how to properly handle them here.
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We've released a new major version of our Laravel Analytics package. The most important new feature of this release is the support for GA4.
– www.conroyp.com - submitted by Paul Conroy
Rolling averages are a great tool for smoothing out noisy data, helping you to more easily spot long-term trends. This new package adds first-class support to Laravel Collections for rolling average calculations.
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– fly.io - submitted by Chris Fidao
Use browser's native autocomplete input fields and dynamically update with Livewire!
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In this blog post, I'd like to show the easiest way to skip tests conditionally in tests. Using the simple technique, which can be used for other things besides skipping tests, you can make your tests much more flexible.
