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Moving PHP and Laravel tests from Travis CI to GitHub Actions original

Dec 8th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Earlier this year, Travis CI announced a new pricing model that effectively ends the generous open-source offering they had for many years. It seems that, even though there were some plans to provide free resources for OSS projects in the future, all activity for OSS projects has stopped.

At our company, we create a lot of open-source projects and packages. Beginning 2020, we already moved most of our stuff to GitHub actions.

Sure, you can read the GitHub actions docs to start learning the possibilities, but in my experience, it might be better to see some examples of practical uses cases. Here are some interesting links that might help you get started with GitHub actions.

A newsletter to keep up-to-date with Livewire

Dec 4th 2020 – livewire.run

This is a great newsletter run by Liam Hammett. Here's the latest edition, so you know what you're getting into.

Stop duplicating your Eloquent query scopes and constraints. Re-use them as select statements with a new Laravel package.

Dec 2nd 2020 – protone.media - submitted by Pascal Baljet

Introducing a new Laravel package that allows you to re-use scopes as a boolean attribute on Eloquent models.

Splitting a large Laravel Livewire Component

Dec 2nd 2020 – www.csrhymes.com - submitted by Chris Rhymes

Splitting up a large Laravel Livewire component into more manageable and maintainable chunks

Laravel Media Library: Load Only 1st Picture Efficiently

Nov 16th 2020 – naxon.dev - submitted by Daniel Naxon

I needed to display only the first picture from my Product's model media collection and found my app running five queries and hydrating 16 models with only four products to display 😱 . Here's how I ended with only two queries and eight models.

Media Library Pro makes uploading files to a Laravel app a breeze original

Nov 12th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 14 minute read

I'm proud to announce that Media Library Pro is now available. Media Library Pro is an add-on package for our free Media Library base package. It contains a set of Blade, Vue and React components that make it easy to upload files to media library and to manage files inside of a media library collection.

In this blog post, I'd like to introduce Media Library Pro to you.

Store strongly typed settings in a Laravel app original

Nov 9th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

We have released a new package, called spatie/laravel-settings, that allows you to strongly type settings in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.

Apply Filters Conditionally In Laravel With when()

Nov 6th 2020 – naxon.dev - submitted by Daniel Naxon

Ever needed to apply filters on a query conditionally, only when the user actually applies them? Laravel query builder's method when got you covered.

The best PRs we got in October original

Nov 2nd 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

At Spatie, we want to stimulate contributing to our open source stuff. That's why we said that we'd give away some of our paid products for free to authors of the best PRs we got in October. In a way, it's our own small version of Hacktoberfest.

In this blog post, I'd like to announce the winners.

The problems with traditional form uploads original

Oct 30th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

When handling uploads, a traditional input type of file has some downsides. In this streaming session I did yesterday, I explain those problems and share how they can be fixed using the upcoming Media Library Pro.

Laravel Worldwide Meetup #4: GitHub Actions & Unconventional Autoloaders original

Oct 28th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Here's the recording of Laravel Worldwide Meetup #4. Ryan Chandler showed a cool GitHub Action workflow to test a Laravel app. Next, Liam Hammet demonstrated some unconvential things you can do with PHP autoloaders.

Adding a subscription form to the web views of Mailcoach original

Oct 26th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

After sending a new edition of my newsletter, I usually tweet out a webview URL together with a URL where people can subscribe to the newsletter. A webview is a hard to guess URL that people who didn't subscribe can visit to read the content of the newsletter.

Casting JSON Columns to Value Objects with Laravel

Oct 23rd 2020 – jessarcher.com

Jess has created a cool laravel-castable-data-transfer-object package. In this blog post she explains in great details how it works.

Unconventional Laravel: Responsable Classes

Oct 22nd 2020 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

Sometimes your controllers can get rather large, especially if you have lots of conditions and data formatting. Have you ever considered moving some of that complexity out into a dedicated response class?

Introducing Laravel Backup Server original

Oct 22nd 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 8 minute read

I'm proud to announce the release of our newest package Laravel Backup Server. This paid package can backup several servers at once. When a backup contains files also present in a previous backup, deduplication using hard links will be performed. Even though you will see full backups in the…

Customise the Email Verification Expiration

Oct 22nd 2020 – bannister.me - submitted by James Bannister

The article dives into a couple of methods for customising the email verification expiration time for verification email sent by Laravel for new users. In one case we use the config setting, in the other we override the verificationUrl method to customise how this is generated.

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