– protone.media - submitted by Pascal Baljet
The Laravel team released so many great Laravel 8.x updates over the last year, it's incredible! I wrote a series of blog posts highlighting some of the best new features and improvements. Today: Collections.
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In your tests, you might have used assertDatabaseHas to make sure that a model actual is persisted.
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Here are a few best practices for working with a large tables.
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Here's the recording of the latest edition of the Laravel Worldwide meetup. Philo Hermans showed off two great Livewire packages that he made. Steve McDougall did a cool live coding session on how to build APIs. And at the end, our suprise guest Caneco gave a nice little presentation on Lumen as…
My current setup (end 2021 edition)
After tweeting out a screenshot, it often get questions around which editor, font or color scheme I'm using. Instead of replying to those questions individually I've decided to just write down the settings and apps that I'm using.
In the vast majority of applications you work with data structures. Sometimes that data is described multiple times. Think for instance of a form request that tries to validate a blog post model, and an API transformer class for that same blog post model. Changes are that both classes describe the same properties.
Using our new laravel-data package, those structures only need to be described once.
Liam Hammet explores the inner workings of Blade.
You will find all videos in this playlist on YouTube.
Have you ever had to write an API integration from scratch? Where you're managing the HTTP calls yourself instead of being able to rely on third-party packages?
In this video, which is part of the Testing Laravel video course, I explain the benefits of testing.
Read more [spatie.be]
- submitted by Mateus Guimarães
Mateus Guimaraes show a couple of neat tests powered by Pest.
Mocking, faking; these might sound like intimidating words if you don't know what they are about, but once you do, you'll be able to improve your testing skills significantly.
Part of "the art of testing" is being able to test code in some level of isolation to make sure a test suite is trustworthy and versatile. These topics are so important that we actually made five or six videos on them in our Testing Laravel course.
In this post, I want to share three ways how you can deal with mocking and faking. Let's dive in!
The newly released spatie/laravel-site-search package can crawl and index the content of one or more sites. You can think of it as a private Google search for your sites. Like most Spatie packages, it is highly customizable: you have total control over what content gets crawled and indexed.
To see the package in action, head over to the search page of this very blog.
In this post, I'd like to introduce the package to you and highlight some implementation and testing details. Let's dig in!
One of the things I really like about modern Laravel projects, are the new model factories introduced in Laravel 8.
A few days ago, a new version of 1Password was released that is able to detect where a user can reset his or her password.
Testing a Laravel project is one of the most pleasant experiences I've ever had: there's a clean testing API, a very powerful layer added on top of testing frameworks; all while keeping the simplicity and eloquence you'd expect from a Laravel project.
The experience of using Livewire seems magical. It's as if your front-end HTML can call your PHP code and everything just works. A lot goes into making this magic happen.
Read more [calebporzio.com]
This edition of the meetup features those two excellent talks:
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Let's look at how we can use Pest's Expectation API with array items.
Want to learn more about testing and/or Pest? Check out Testing Laravel
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While recording videos for the Testing Laravel video course, I became a big fan of Pest, a test runner that tries to optimize the developer experience. I'm now using Pest as the default for testing new packages and projects.
I've also converted a couple of existing testsuites from PHPUnit to Pest. Luckily, this is a very easy process. In this video I'll show you how to get started. You'll see that it only takes a couple of minutes.
