Introducing lazy loading prevention into an existing application
– timacdonald.me - submitted by Tim Mac
Introduce lazy loading to an existing application without interrupting flow or overwhelming your logs
Read more [timacdonald.me]
Mistakes I've made in AWS
Here's a collection of the most commonly missed things when using AWS with Laravel Forge!
Read more [laravel-news.com]
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Strategies for decreasing the number of queries in a Laravel app original
Oh Dear is all-in-one solution to monitor your site that my buddy Mattias Geniar and I have created. It can monitoring uptime, certificates, broken links, scheduled jobs, and much more.
Under the hood, Oh Dear is a large Laravel application that performs many queries all of the time. To power future features, we've recently changed our database structure and refactored some pieces in our code base. We increased performance by decreasing the number of queries.
In this blog post, we'd like to to share some techniques that might be helpfull to increase the performance of your Laravel app too.
Linking to Flare errors on your error page
We've launched a new feature that will make it easier for users of your app to report specific errors.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Monitoring Laravel Vapor metrics with Grafana Cloud
Once configured, you can see all of the metrics you need to ensure your Vapor app is healthy on one screen.
Read more [dyrynda.com.au]
How to Use a Custom Encryption Key for Encrypted Cast Model Attributes in Laravel
Laravel allows you to cast model attributes as encrypted strings1, when stored in the database. This gives you added security for any values that are sensitive (such as Personally identifiable information, PII), including complex structures such as arrays, collections, and even objects.
Read more [larasec.substack.com]
Introducing a new package to add a support form to your app original
We've created a new package that can render a beautiful support form widget on any page. You can read more about the package in this blog post at Flare.
In this stream, I'll show you how to use the package. We'll also source dive its code.
How to test a form in a Laravel app original
In this video, my colleague Brent explains a good way to test a form in a Laravel app.
This video is part of our new premium video course Testing Laravel.
Cool Laravel Testing Techniques original
In this stream, Brent and I showcase some cool techniques we use in our test suites.
State of Laravel survey results
Tobias Petry shared the results of the State Of Laravel Survey he launched a few weeks ago.
Read more [stateoflaravel.com]
How to test middleware in Laravel
In this video, which is part of the Testing Laravel video course, I explain to cool ways to test middleware in Laravel.
In this video, we're using Pest, but you can easily use the techniques in a PHPUnit testsuite as well.
Laravel Seeders on Steroids
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Seeders are a great way of creating fixture data, as well as dummy data, for your development environment. Let me show you how we can make them even better.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Immutable dates in Laravel
Michael Dyrynda explains how you can use immutable dates in Laravel by default.
Read more [dyrynda.com.au]
Exploring Pest internals original
In this stream, Pest creator Nuno Maduro explains how his testing tool works under the hood.
If you want to know how to use Pest (or PHPUnit) to test your application code, consider picking up our Testing Laravel video course.
How to handle GitHub webhooks in a Laravel application original
Whenever something happens in one of your repos on GitHub, you can configure a webhook to be sent to your app. This way, you can perform some extra logic when a particular event occurs on the repo. A silly example would be to send someone a mail when an issue is opened.
We've created a new package called spatie/laravel-github-webhooks that makes it easy to consume GitHub webhooks in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
Announcing our Testing Laravel premium video course
Knowing how to write automated tests is a fundamental skill for any developer. By adding a quality test suite to your application, you'll end up with fewer bugs in production. It allows you to refactor with confidence using a test suite that has your back.
We're currently recording a new premium video course called Testing Laravel. It will be released in September.
Use Blink to execute something once and only once
Here's a neat use of our Blink package.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Give me /events, not webhooks
Here are some cool ideas to improve webhooks
Read more [blog.syncinc.so]
The State of Laravel survey
Laravel celebrated its 10th anniversary a few weeks ago. Today it is the most popular PHP framework used by thousands of developers every day. The emerged ecosystem around Laravel is huge and new trends are popping up all the time. This survey is an attempt to gain insight into the representation of the diverse technologies and behaviors of this outstanding community.
Read more [stateoflaravel.com]
