If you're using #Laravel Valet in Europe:
— Sander van Hooft (@SandervHooft) August 19, 2019
Just discovered "valet share --region=eu".
Ngrok seems to default to the US region otherwise. Major speed improvement.
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From time to time our team needs to create fairly complicated CRUD interfaces from scratch. While this isn't rocket science, there surprisingly aren't that many good resource out there on how to do this. That's why our team dove in and published a couple of packages that can help create modern CRUD…
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I just found out that a recent version of #Laravel Valet introduced a "valet use php@version" command. Make sure you upgrade Valet to get this functionality. ? pic.twitter.com/JW99xfJNNb
— Kevin McKee (@iAmKevinMcKee) August 12, 2019
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Unsung Laravel hero Joseph Silber opened up a very interesting PR to Laravel. Let's hope this one gets accepted.
Whereas the existing Collection class wraps a native array, the new LazyCollection class wraps a native iterator, while still providing most of the methods that we know and love from a regular collection.
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Christoph Rumpel wrote a clear post on how you can use Laravel's service container.
The service container is a quite complex topic, and I see many struggling to understand what it does. It was the same for me, and the main reason is that many explanations concentrate on "how" to use the container. With this article, I want to give you my introduction to this topic by focusing on the "why" and "when" the container can help us with our dependencies.
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Patrick Brouwers, the creator of Laravel Excel, explains how to handle failing jobs in Laravel
When designing software, don’t only think about the happy path. Write down (preferably with (unit) tests) what all the things are that could go wrong. Then design your solution to be able to recover those situations. (Wether or not automatic.) There isn’t a single solution to rule them all, some processes might need to have specific failure handling while others are fine with the default approach.
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Laravel Shift creator JMac did a write up of the talk he gave at this year's Laracon US
I received a lot of valuable feedback from these talks. So I combined them by using analytics from Shift to identify underutilized features of Laravel and demonstrate them with code.
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Mohammed Said shares some solid tips on optimizing costs when working in a serverless environment like Laravel Vapor
Laravel Vapor uses different AWS resources to efficiently get your application up and running in the serverless cloud. The building block of the whole thing is AWS Lambda, it's where the actual computing happens. Calculating the cost of the compute part for your application can be a bit confusing, so let's simplify it a bit with an example.
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Jonathan Reinink has added a very usefull metric to Laravel debugbar
Last week at Laracon US I gave a talk titled Eloquent Performance Patterns. In that talk I used a custom Laravel Debugbar metric I created to track how many Eloquent models were being hydrated throughout a request. I've had a lot of people asking about this, so today I submitted a pull request to the Laravel Debugbar to add this as an official metric.
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At the Laracon US conference in New York, Taylor Otwell released Laravel Vapor, a new platform for serverless hosting backed by AWS services.
You can watch the presentation below.
? In @laravelphp you can customize validation error messages in a form request ? pic.twitter.com/8XFUeuqFOT
— Freek Van der Herten ? (@freekmurze) July 10, 2019
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Earlier this year we released v2 of laravel-event-sourcing. This package is probably the easiest way to getting started with event sourcing in Laravel. A significant feature of v2 was the addition of aggregates.
Today we released another new version of the package that adds test methods. These methods allow you to verify if the aggregate behaves correctly. In this post, I'll show you an example and explain how the test methods are implemented.
These test methods were inspired by the awesome testing methods Frank De Jonge made in his Eventsauce package.
Jason McCreary, creator of Laravel Shift, wrote a post mortem on a problem where too many mails were sent.
It was 7:07 am. I woke up to 56 emails, 17 tweets, 9 Slack messages, and 4 telegrams. All of which alerting me my SaSS product had sent 3,625 email messages to 1,544 users overnight. I am Jack's cold sweat. ?
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
And if you're a @laravelphp user wondering how you can use this feature, you can easily extend the query builder to support this. ?
— Jonathan Reinink (@reinink) July 16, 2019
Gist here: https://t.co/Wuavz0v7p9 pic.twitter.com/Vy6NJdJbcx
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The comment section of this blog used to be powered by Disqus. At its core, Disqus works pretty well. But I don't like the fact that it pulls in a lot of JavaScript to make it work. It's also not the prettiest UI. I've recently replaced Disqus comments with webmentions. If you reply to, like or…
Jason McCreary wrote an epic blogpost on how to get started with tests in a Laravel app. I wish I could have read this when I started out with testing.
This brings me to the next common response, we don’t know where to start testing. This comes in two forms. The first form is quite literally we don’t know which test to write first. The second form is more not knowing how to write the first test. ... Today, I want to focus on getting started with testing your Laravel applications.
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Tim MacDonald, a freelance software developer based in Sydney, investigates how to make Laravel tests run faster. Turns out you a lot can be gained by caching the config.
I saw a conversation on Twitter the other day discussing how Laravel was slowing down a test suite. I decided I wanted to dig into this and see if there was anything to it.
Read more [timacdonald.me]
A nice little tip to clean up your code base from boolean flags (is_active, is_deleted, is_subscribed) is to switch to nullable timestamps instead.
— Marcel Pociot ? (@marcelpociot) July 2, 2019
You remain the same flag functionality, but get the point of time for free. pic.twitter.com/86iHt6ow0X
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? The fundamental key to understanding Eloquent. pic.twitter.com/WkaKIFaeOR
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) July 1, 2019
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Simon Kollross explains how to use our laravel-backup package to create an encrypted backup of your Laravel based app.
You should always encrypt backups of your apps and securely transfer them to one or multiple backup destinations. If you encrypt the backups on your server and transfer only the encrypted version, your backups are stored encrypted at rest in your backup destination. Not even your backup storage provider is able to read them.
Read more [simonkollross.de]
