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How to use Stripe CLI with Laravel Valet to listen for events

Jun 18th 2022 – ralphjsmit.com - submitted by Ralph J. Smit

Use the Stripe CLI with Laravel Valet to listen to webhooks locally.

Adding a Laravel backend to a Remix App

Jun 17th 2022 – davecalnan.blog

Dave Calnan has been using Remix in production for about 6 months now and has decided to add a Laravel backend to the stack. Here's what he's learned from the process.

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.

Using login links in a Laravel app original

May 30th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has launched a new package called spatie/laravel-login-link.

In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

35 Laravel Eloquent tips

May 26th 2022 – martinjoo.dev

Martin Joo shares some cool things you can do with Laravel's ORM.

A package to add comments to your Laravel app original

May 25th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 10 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new premium package called Laravel Comments. Using this package, you can set up a comments section in your Laravel app in no time.

We've made a nice, errr I mean epic launch movie to get you in the right mood.

Laravel Comments includes a Livewire component to render comments. Here's what it looks like:

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Of course, we wrote extensive documentation, covering every aspect of Laravel Comments.

It comes with batteries included:

comments can be nested
emoji reactions
notifications to all participants when a new comment is posted
an inline approval flow for new comments
markdown editing and code highlighting
endlessly customisable

In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.

Using Request Factories for Gorgeous Feature Tests

May 25th 2022 – downing.tech

A cool new package made by Luke Downing

A package to create Livewire powered wizards in no time original

May 23rd 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called laravel-livewire-wizard. Using this package, you can set up multi-step wizards quickly using Livewire.

The package is headless, which means that it provides no UI itself, but it makes it easy to build any UI you desire.

You can easily control which step is displayed, access state of other steps, and build any navigation you desire.

I'd like to introduce the package to you in this blog post.

How to add a spotlight-like search field to your Laravel app original

May 19th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 6 minute read

As developers, we tend to like shortcuts to speed up our workflow. One of the tools I'm using to speed up doing stuff on my Mac is Raycast. It offers a lovely command palette that allows opening apps and URLs, working with clipboard history, and much more.

Wouldn't it be nice to also add such a command palette to a Laravel app? This way, power users of your app can get around quickly and perform small tasks without having to click around.

The good news is that there's already a package to add such a thing: Spotlight by Philo Hermans. In this blog post, I'd like to show how we use this fantastic package at Oh Dear.

How to send e-mails in Laravel with Tailwind CSS

May 19th 2022 – ralphjsmit.com - submitted by Ralph J. Smit

In this tutorial I'll show you how to send e-mails from Laravel with Tailwind CSS. I'll learn you how to set this up and how to inline all the Tailwind CSS-classes.

Extensible Blade Components

May 17th 2022 – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

In this post, Marcus explains the fundamentals of Blade components. A great introduction or review, this post walks you through the process of creating an extensible button component that contains the code common between button types, with additional interactivity powered by Alpine.

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.

Testing API responses in pestPHP

May 11th 2022 – www.juststeveking.uk - submitted by Steve McDougall

I get asked about API response testing a lot, how should you do it, and where to start. I have a general rule when it comes to testing APIs, and that rule is: "test your code, and your code only". What do I mean by this? Let me explain:

Laravel DDD - Getting started with DDD in Laravel

May 9th 2022 – www.juststeveking.uk - submitted by Steve McDougall

In a typical Laravel application we are very used to doing things in a certain way, by the book as they say. However there comes a point in the applications lifetime that it is going to be easier to start looking to split this code into Domains so that we can logically group our code.

From PHPUnit To Pest original

Apr 25th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

A couple of months I go I had the honour giving a talk at the GPUG usergroup on how to convert a PHPUnit testsuite to Pest.

Nowadays, I use Pest as the default testrunner for every package / project that I start.

Learn how to write readable PHP that is a joy to maintain original

Apr 20th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 8 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our new premium course on writing readable PHP is now available. It's called Writing Readable PHP.

This course contains a collection of bite-size tips (both in written form and videos) that make your code a joy to read for your co-workers and future self. These tips are aimed towards developers who know the basics of PHP and want to improve their craft. As a bonus, you'll learn to use static analysis to ensure that your code is understandable and correct.

Writing Readable PHP has been created by our team and Christoph Rumpel. It contains our combined knowledge on how to write the best PHP possible.

PHP isn't dead

Apr 19th 2022

Last month, The Laravel Documentary was released which showed the history behind Laravel. For the documentary a lot of people that are active in the Laravel community were interviewed.

From the footage that did not make into the documentary, the makers behind the documentary distilled a cool new short movie about PHP.

I'm honoured the some of my interview snippets made the cut. 😎

How to build modals with Laravel and Livewire

Apr 15th 2022 – philo.dev

A super nice way to go about this, thanks to Philo. Cool stuff!

Simple event streaming in Laravel

Apr 6th 2022 – devdojo.com

Unlike traditional Long-polling using AJAX requests, where multiple requests are sent to the server and a new connection is established each time, event streams are sent to the client in real-time in a single request.