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Pragmatically testing multi-guard authentication in Laravel original

Feb 3rd 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Last week our team launched Mailcoach, a self-hosted solution to send out email campaigns and newsletters. Rather than being the end, laughing something is the beginning of a journey. Users start encountering bugs and ask for features that weren't considered before.

One of those features requests we got, is the ability the set the guard to be used when checking if somebody is allowed to access the Mailcoach UI.

In this blog post, I'd like to show you how we implemented and tested this.

Building Mailcoach original

Jan 30th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 12 minute read

Today, our team released Mailcoach, a beautiful, self-hosted mailing list manager. It integrates with services like Amazon SES, Mailgun, or Sendgrid to send out mailings affordably. It’s packaged as a stand-alone app, or can be integrated into a Laravel project, it's perfect for bloggers, artisans, and entrepreneurs.

Even if you're not in the market for an email solution, Mailcoach includes a video course on how it’s built. I'm sure you'll see some valuable techniques that you can bring to your own project.

In this blogpost, I'd like to share why and how we've built this.

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Laravel Mixins Tips

Jan 29th 2020 – liamhammett.com - submitted by Liam Hammett

Some tips when dealing with lots of macros in Laravel, and composing them into mixin classes elegantly.

Authentication and Laravel Airlock

Jan 20th 2020 – divinglaravel.com

Mohammed Said wrote a good explanation of what Laravel Airlock brings to the table.

Disabling HTML5 Form Validation For Laravel Dusk Tests

Jan 20th 2020 – cwhite.me - submitted by Chris White

Disabling client-side browser validation will allow you to test your real validation rules, instead of Chrome's.

Using optional attributes in a Laravel factory

Jan 20th 2020 – twitter.com

🕵️‍♂️ Just discovered "->optional()" in $faker for my Laravel factories.

Check it out.

Did you already know about this? pic.twitter.com/MrVETY7i3f
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) January 18, 2020

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Using GitHub actions to run the tests of Laravel projects and packages original

Jan 6th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 10 minute read

For many years we've relied on Travis to run the tests of our packages. For projects we used Circle CI. Recently we moved this responsibility from Travis and Circle CI to GitHub actions. In this blogpost I'd like to explain why and how we did this.

Fetching data in the perimeter of your Laravel applications

Jan 6th 2020 – reinink.ca

Jonathan Reinink wrote another excellent blog post.

As much as possible, keep data fetching to the perimeter of your Laravel applications. What do I mean by this? In the simplest terms, it means running your database queries in your controllers.

Pass data to the main Blade layout

Jan 5th 2020 – twitter.com

TIL: in @laravelphp blade you can pass data up the main layout you are extending #laravel #php pic.twitter.com/IEWYHv0uyE
— Sidrit Trandafili (@strandafili) 23 december 2019

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📺 How to avoid large function signatures by using pending objects original

Dec 30th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

In this video I demonstrate how to you can create a fluent API by using pending objects. We'll take a look at how subscribers can be created in Mailcoach. As a bonus I explain how jobs are dispatched using a pending object in Laravel.

📺 Building filters using laravel-query-builder original

Dec 19th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

On the subscribers screens of the Mailcoach, you can filter out the subscribers that have a certain status, you can search and sort them.

In the video below, which is part of the upcoming Mailcoach video course, I explain how we built these filters, powered by three of our packages: laravel-query-builder, query-string and Blade X.

The Laracon EU 2019 videos have been released.

Dec 17th 2019

Laracon EU is an amazing conference I had the pleasure of attending these past years. Last week the videos of the 2019 edition have been released. You can see them all in this handy playlist on YouTube.

At the conference Marcel Pociot and I revealed Ignition and Flare. Relive that here:

Get the ids of a collection of models

Dec 16th 2019 – twitter.com

TIL that there's a shorthand for the dreaded pluck('id')->toArray() combo in #Laravel:$user->posts->modelKeys() will return all related post IDs that are attached to the user model! 🔥https://t.co/imIPlVNjwi

S/O to @rubenvanassche for telling me this existed 👌 pic.twitter.com/c3sANn52M8
— Alex (@AlexVanderbist) 19 november 2019

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Using view models

Dec 13th 2019 – stitcher.io

Brent explains what view models are and how you can use them. We use view models in almost every project at Spatie.

In essence, view models are simple classes that take some data, and transform it into something usable for the view. In this chapter I'll show you the basic principles of the pattern, we'll take a look at how they integrate in Laravel projects, and finally I'll show you how we use the pattern in one of our projects.

How to align Laravel route methods

Dec 13th 2019 – twitter.com

🔥 Like Model::query() to align subsequent calls, here's the world's simplest macro to do something similar in routes. pic.twitter.com/OzWJ7Fcx8F
— Paul Redmond 🇺🇸 (@paulredmond) 12 december 2019

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📺 Video: Using tags and segments in Mailcoach original

Dec 11th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

My team and I are currently building Mailcoach, a self-hosted solution to easily send out newsletters and email campaigns. In this video, I demonstrate how email lists can be segmented using tags.

Getting started with GitHub Actions and Laravel

Dec 10th 2019 – rubenvanassche.com

My colleague Ruben explores the wonderful world of GitHub actions.

You can write workflows in YAML, which makes them easy to write and read. In the beta version of GitHub Actions you had to use Ocaml, which was quite hard to comprehend, and there was almost no documentation. If you were a bit frightened by the beta version, like me, then rest assured: the YAML version is easier to use, and the documentation is well written.

Streamlining Laravel

Dec 9th 2019 – jasonmccreary.me

JMac, the creator of Laravel Shift, has a few interesting ideas on how to make the framework better.

Every so often a revolutionary change is required. This provides a chance to revisit goals. One of the primary goals of Laravel is developer experience. And maintainability, freshness, and approachability all improve developer experience. So, with all this in mind here are the top five things I would change in Laravel.

Building Mailcoach: deleting unconfirmed users automatically original

Dec 9th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

My team and I are currently building Mailcoach, a self-hosted solution to easily send out newsletters and email campaigns. In this video, I live code a new small feature.

This video was created unrehearsed and I didn't make any edits. So you can see every mistake that I made along the way.

A recap of 2019 original

Dec 8th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 17 minute read

A year ago, I wrote a recap of 2018. Now that 2019 is coming to a close, I thought it might be fun to write a similar post on what I did this year.

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