At Spatie we've released a plethora of Laravel packages. Now that Laravel 5.5 has been released most of our packages will get a new (major) version. In this blogpost I'd like to explain how we handle new releases of the framework and what it means for our packages. Preparing for release Laravel has…
Jeff Ochoa wrote a nice walkthrough of one of Laravels lesser known functionalities: pipelines.
Basically, using laravel pipelines you can pass an object between several classes in a fluid way to perform any type of task and finally return the resulting value once all the “tasks” have been executed.
https://medium.com/@jeffochoa/understanding-laravel-pipelines-a7191f75c351
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Fav piece of code for today ❤️ Partition collection method, array destructuring, catching multiple exception types... loving PHP + Laravel pic.twitter.com/jkIQkFSzhf
— Jacob Bennett (@JacobBennett) August 24, 2017
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At Spatie, we're building a multi-tenant app. Seb figured out a great way to handle theme based views.
Laravel allows you register a view vendor namespace which points to a specific directory containing Blade files. This feature is intended for package development, but it's a perfect solution to our problem.By registering a namespace with the current theme's location, we can drop all the dynamic parts of our view names when we're calling them.
https://sebastiandedeyne.com/posts/2017/theme-based-views-in-laravel-using-vendor-namespaces
? Dedicated view objects are a great use case for Laravel 5.5's new `Responsable` interface.
— Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) August 16, 2017
Can remove the need for other fancy patterns ? pic.twitter.com/qFpK6SRHLC
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At Spatie we recently launched a new site: guidelines.spatie.be. It contains articles on how we go about setting things up at Spatie and a collection of styleguides. The source code of the site is available on GitHub. In this blogpost I'd like to share why and how we created our guidelines site. Why…
Daniel Coulbourne, an engineer at Tighten Co and co-host of the amazing Twenty Percent Time podcast, recently released Ziggy, a tool to share your Laravel named routes with JavaScript.
Ziggy creates a Blade directive which you can include in your views. This will export a JavaScript object of your application's named routes, keyed by their names (aliases), as well as a global route() helper function which you can use to access your routes in your JavaScript.
In an older post on his blog Mohamed Said demonstrates how you can leverage virtual columns to speed up queries on data stored as JSON.
Laravel 5.3 is shipped with built-in support for updating and querying JSON type database fields, the support currently fully covers MySQL 5.7 JSON type fields updates and lookups,...
Let's see how we may create a generated column to store users favorite color for later indexing.
https://themsaid.com/laravel-mysql-json-colum-fast-lookup-20160709
At this year's Laracon US Adam Wathan gave a talk titled "Cruddy By Design" on how to structure your controllers better. After the conference he published a new GitHub repo that contains the demo app he refactored on stage. The 4 main tips to improve your code come as PRs on the repo with a full description on why the change is valuable. Very cool stuff.
Using this convention as a "rule" is a good way to force yourself to keep your controllers from becoming bloated, and can often lead to learning interesting new things about your domain.For the presentation, I put together a demo app called "CastHacker" that showcases podcasts about software development. It's not a "real" app by any means (lots of imaginary features, no tests, etc.); it's just enough code to demonstrate the concepts from the presentation. Feel free to clone it and play with it locally if you like though.
I've written up each refactoring I shared in the presentation as a detailed pull request.
Laravel Horizon is a kickass dashboard for viewing queued jobs. Co-creator Mohammed Said published two posts about the inner working of the tool. The first one on the Diving Laravel site highlights the overall configuration and how the master supervisor works.
Laravel Horizon is a queue manager that gives you full control over your queues, it provides means to configure how your jobs are processed, generate analytics, and perform different queue-related tasks from within a nice dashboard.In this dive we're going to learn how Horizon boots up and handles processing jobs using different workers as well as how it collects useful metrics for you to have the full picture of how your application dispatches and runs jobs.
https://divinglaravel.com/horizon/before-the-dive
The second one, published on his own blog, shows how queued jobs can get tagged.
Laravel Horizon is shipped with many amazing features that help you understand what goes on with your queue workers, my personal favorite feature is the ability to tag jobs for further investigation.
https://themsaid.com/tagging-jobs-in-laravel-horizon-20170731
Laracon US 2017 was an amazing conference. Sid published this excellent recap that contains many links to slides and related content.
I attended my first Laracon in person and I have to say I really enjoyed the experience — maybe more than I expected to. It was well organised and the talks were diverse, informative and actionable. Day 1 was all technical and mostly revolved around Laravel. Day 2 had a different mix of talks and the non-technical ones were thought-provoking and entertaining.
https://medium.com/koomai/laracon-2017-a-recap-and-links-galore-c233be2de670
On Scotch.io a new post by Julien Bourdeau was published that shows how you can easily import and search geographic data with Laravel Scout and Algolia.
Laravel Scout makes it very easy to setup an external search engine to create consumer-grade search quickly. The package comes with Algolia as a default search engine. I'd like to demonstrate how to make use of the geo-location search feature with Scout.In this tutorial, you'll learn how to prepare your data for Algolia and Laravel Scout to retrieve items based on location.
https://scotch.io/tutorials/achieving-geo-search-with-laravel-scout-and-algolia
A while ago we released image-optimizer. In short this package can make all kinds of images smaller by stripping out metadata and applying a little bit of compression. Read this blogpost to learn more about it. Although it's pretty easy to work with the package, we felt that we could deliver a more…
?Combining query scopes with explicit model names will help keep code cleaner and easier to understand #laravel pic.twitter.com/ixzDdrZcRT
— Chris Gmyr (@cmgmyr) July 12, 2017
I love this little “owns” trait/method that @michaeldyrynda & I came up with for Confomo.
— Matt Stauffer (@stauffermatt) July 7, 2017
Look at that expressiveness. :kisses fingers: pic.twitter.com/dE731Ko1Zw
Testing @spatie_be 's media library with the new #laravel upload fakes ? Trust, but verify ? #testing pic.twitter.com/Ss98rGloRf
— Christoph Rumpel (@christophrumpel) July 3, 2017
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Our recently released image-optimizer package can shave off some kilobyes of PNGs, JPGs, SVGs and GIFs by running them through a chain of various image optimization tools. In this blog post I'll tell you all about it. First, here's a quick example on how you can use it: use…
On his blog Left On The Web, Stefan Koopmanschap lists the podcasts he's listening to. His selection contains both tech and non-tech podcasts.
Like this simple new addition coming in Laravel 5.4.28, it's handy for when you need to eager-load related models of a collection on the go. pic.twitter.com/0W3hqG97BR
— Mohamed Said (@themsaid) June 21, 2017
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On the Bugsnag blog, Graham Campbell, wrote a guest post on the basics of creating a Laravel package. If you've ever wanted to create a package, this is a good starting point.
Laravel is a massively influential PHP framework, and its simple but powerful design means that it’s easy to utilize packages in your application. In this blog post we will look at the basics of creating and installing Laravel packages.
