A recap of 2019 original
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.
Mutate data using form requests
?You can mutate request data using @laravelphp 's form requests instead of doing it in the controller. By overwriting the validationData() method, you can mutate data BEFORE validation. Overwrite the validated() method to mutate AFTER validation. #Laravel #php pic.twitter.com/VAVXYAHCFC
— Neil Keena (@neilkeena) November 4, 2019
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Laravel Form Requests - more than validation
I'm a big fan of this approach and use Form Request like this quite often.
Let me show you what form requests can do for you - and how you can make use of them to write beautiful, expressive APIs.
Read more [pociot.dev]
freek.dev turns five! original
Thoughts on pricing for Mailcoach
At Spatie we currently building Mailcoach: a solution to self-host newsletters and email campaigns. It can be used a stand alone app or as a laravel package. We'll also create a video course that explains the internals of the package. We're not going to make this software open source, but sell it. We're still are deciding on our pricing model.
Julien Bourdeau, engineer at Algolia, shares his thoughts on how it should be priced.
Today, Freek announced that they're going to release the pricing model soon and opened a conversation about what it could be. It got me thinking, and unfortunately, I couldn't fit my thought in 280 characters. First, it's important to understand that MailCoach will be 2 main things: a full-fledged app and a Laravel package.
Read more [www.sigerr.org]
Disable HTTP sessions in Laravel to speed up your API
My buddy Mattias recently improved the performance of the Oh Dear uptime checker servers by disabling the HTTP sessions.
If you run a Laravel application purely as a headless API, you can benefit from disabling the HTTP sessions. We use this setup for our Oh Dear monitoring service, where the remote servers that check for uptime are all headless Laravel setups.
Read more [ma.ttias.be]
Sending a welcome notification to new users of a Laravel app original
My team and I currently building Mailcoach, a solution to self-host newsletters and email campaigns. In Mailcoach you can create new users to use the app.
How should these new users be onboarded? The easy way out would be to send these new users a default password reset notification to those users, but that isn't a good first experience. The default auth scaffold by Laravel doesn't help us here: it only contains functionality to log in and to let users register themselves.
To onboard new users created by other users, I've created a package called laravel-welcome-notification which can send a welcome notification to new users that allows them to set an initial password.
In this blogpost I'd like to explain how you can use the package).
Closing Modals with the Back Button in a Vue SPA
Jess Archer recently gave an excellent talk at Laracon AU. In a new blogpost she explains one one tips given during her talk: how to close modals in a Vue app by using the back button.
On most web apps, pressing the back button while a modal dialog is open will navigate to the previous page, rather than closing the modal. This can be very frustrating! It might not seem like a huge deal on a desktop app, but on a mobile, where a modal like this will often be full-screen, and with phones having back buttons and back gestures, I believe it's a huge user experience improvement.
Read more [jessarcher.com]
Creating custom relations in Laravel
My colleague Brent solved a performance by creating a custom relation
One last solution that came to mind was to load all people, all contracts, and map them together manually. In the end that's exactly what I ended up doing, though I did it in the cleanest possible way: using custom relations.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Add query-constraints when eager loading relationships
? Did you know you can add query-constraints when eager loading relationships in Laravel?
— Stefan Zweifel (@_stefanzweifel) November 12, 2019
Perfect opportunity to improve query performance when your relationships return thousands of models.
↳ Full example: https://t.co/RsezzpkWoC pic.twitter.com/nwjC7U8Oqa
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Improving Artisan commands original
In this small blog post, I'd like to give you a couple of tips to make your Artisan commands better.
Crafting maintainable Laravel applications
At Laracon AU, Jason McCreary gave an excellen talk on how to create maintainable Laravel apps. On his blog he published a written down version of the talk.
Being the author of BaseCode and creator of Shift gives me a unique insight into writing Laravel applications. I combined 20 years of writing code with supporting over 20,000 Laravel upgrades into 10 tips for crafting maintainable Laravel applications.
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
A PHP package to read and write simple Excel or CSV files original
For a couple of projects I needed to read and write a couple of very large Excel and CSV files. I didn't find a good package that does this so I decided to create one myself. Under the hood it uses generators, so memory usage will remain low, even when working with large files.
In this blogpost I'd like to walk you through spatie/simple-excel.
Getting started with Domain Oriented Laravel original
A couple of days ago my colleague Brent published a blogpost on Domain Oriented Laravel. In short, he makes the case for organising your code around business concepts or features. That might sound very "heavy" or daunting, but it's actually for easy to get started with.
In this short video I explain how you can use PhpStorm to refactor your code. Make up your own mind if you need this in your projects.
Query scopes, meet action scopes
Tim MacDonald shares an interesting technique.
Action scopes are...well...just query scopes really, but instead of filtering they take an action. It's just a random name I've given them to differentiate them from regular filtering based query scopes in my projects.
Read more [timacdonald.me]
The value of the void typehint in PHP original
When the void typehint was introduced in PHP 7.1. There was some debate about it. Some people wondered if it is beneficial to type nothing? I was one of them. Meanwhile, I changed my opinion on it. In this short post, I'd like to give you a small example where I think void shines.
A job middleware to rate limit jobs original
Recently we released a new small package called laravel-rate-limited-job-middleware. As the name implies, this package can be used to limit how many times a job may be executed in a given amount of time.
In this short blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
Testing your Laravel app using GitHub actions
Mattias Geniar explains how you can use GitHub actions to run the testsuite of your Laravel app.
Last year we wrote a blogpost about our setup we use for Oh Dear! with Gitlab, and how we use their pipelines for running our CI tests. Since then, we've moved back to Github since they introduced their free private repositories. In this post I'll describe how we re-configured our CI environment using Github Actions.
Read more [ma.ttias.be]
