Laravel Valet 3 Released With Multi-Version PHP Support
The Laravel team released the next major version of Laravel Valet (3.0), which introduces running multiple versions of PHP in Valet applications side-by-side.
Read more [laravel-news.com]
Introducing Visit: a CLI tool made for humans to make network requests
I'm happy to announce that we have released Visit. This tool can display the response of any URL. Think of it as curl for humans. By default, the output will be colourized, and the response code and time will be displayed after the response.
JSON responses will be colourized by default as well.
And there's integration with Laravel: it can log in any user, report the numbers of queries used to build up the response, and more.
I'd like to tell you all about it in this blog post.
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Errors when using groupBy() in laravel
– sinnbeck.dev - submitted by René Sinnbeck
Are you getting errors with laravels groupBy()? Here is short explanation of why.
Read more [sinnbeck.dev]
How to improve privacy with Laravel file encryption
– geisi.dev - submitted by Tim Geisendörfer
Let's improve your users privacy with file encryption without using any 3rd party packages.
Read more [geisi.dev]
Common SQL errors for Laravel Developers
– tray2.se - submitted by Patrik Ahlström
I hope you won't run into any of these.
Read more [tray2.se]
Testing the homepage of a Laravel app using Pest
Getting started with testing is not that hard. Here's a free video taken from the Testing Laravel course that will show you how you can make sure you homepage works.
Read more [spatie.be]
Running PHPUnit tests in parallel using GitHub actions
– rias.be
One of our projects has a really large test suite that isn't optimised to run with Laravel's parallel testing. It was starting to take more than 15 minutes to have the whole test suite run inside Github Actions, which is when my colleague Rias searched for a better way to do this.
Read more [rias.be]
Laravel Origins: The Documentary
This is an amazing documentary that shows the origins of Laravel, and it's 12 year journey. I'm honoured being a part of this.
Composable seeders in Laravel with callOnce
Laravel 9 is fresh out the door, and it contains a small contribution of mine: a new callOnce method for database seeders.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Drying up test coverage using model scope events
– devonmather.dev - submitted by Devon Mather
Let's explore the option of firing events on model scopes to add some glue between our feature tests and our unit tests.
Read more [devonmather.dev]
Automate keeping your environment files in sync.
How many times have you onboarded a new dev onto your team, only to have to spend ages debugging with them because your project's .env.example file is wildly outdated?
Here's a package that can help with that!
Read more [github.com]
A package to automatically discover routes in a Laravel app original
I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called spatie/laravel-route-discovery. This package can be used to automatically discover and register routes by looking at your controllers and views. Of course, you can also still register routes like you're used to in a routes file.
In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about this package.
What's new in Laravel 9
In this video, Jeffrey Way of Laracasts shares all the cool new stuff in Laravel 9.
How does Treblle scale on AWS without breaking the bank?
Here's how Treblle, a large Laravel app, manages to keep their AWS costs low.
Read more [treblle.com]
Laravel Worldwide meetup: Building CLI apps with Termwind & What's new in Inertia
On this edition of the meetup, Francisco Madeira talks about creating beautiful CLI apps with Termwind. Claudio Dekker shows what's new in Inertia.
Using Ray in WordPress Development: Callers and Stack Traces
Here's a cool post by Tom McFarlin how you can use Ray in WordPress to easily see a the callers of a function. This doesn't only work in WordPress but any Laravel and PHP app.
Read more [tommcfarlin.com]
Using Importmaps in Laravel
- submitted by Tony Messias
Tony Messias has ported a cool feature from Rails to Laravel.
Testing Laravel Environment Checks
Here's how Luke Downing goes about testing environment specific things.
Read more [downing.tech]
Simulate production in your Laravel tests
In this video, Michael steps a natural approache on how to test environment specific functionality.
A package to quickly send Slack alerts in a Laravel app original
Our team has released a small package called spatie/laravel-slack-alerts. It can be used to send a message to Slack quickly. In this blog post, I'd like to share why we've created this package and how you can use it.
