Composer 2.0 has been released
Here are the most important changes and upgrade instructions.
Read more [blog.packagist.com]
Introducing Laravel Backup Server original
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…
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How to Patch a Package in Vendor, Yet Allow its Updates
Tomas Votruba explains how you can create composer patches.
Read more [tomasvotruba.com]
A package to run the Laravel scheduler without relying on cron
We released a new package called spatie/laravel-cronless-schedule. It can run the Laravel scheduler (or any other command really), without relying on cron. Instead of cron, a never-ending ReactPHP loop is used.
In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
A package to schedule Artisan commands at sub-minute frequencies original
Laravel's native scheduler allows you to schedule Artisan commands to run every minute. For a project I'm working on I needed to schedule a command to run every few seconds. I found a good solution to do this using an ReactPHP powered event loop. Because this solution could be helpful for others as well, I decided to package it up.
Using the laravel-short-schedule package, you can schedule artisan commands to run every second or even lower frequencies. In this blogpost I'd like to introduce the package.
How to Build and Autoload Your Own PHP Package Locally
Matt Stauffer shows a good workflow for this.
Read more [mattstauffer.com]
Learn how to create PHP and Laravel packages using our new premium video course original
Together with my colleagues at Spatie, we have produced over 200 packages with more than 75 million downloads in total.
We learned a lot by quality packages like laravel-permission, laravel-backup, browsershot, laravel-medialibrary, and many more. We feel we have a pretty good workflow to produce reliable, readable, and maintainable packages.
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Your App is a Package Manager
A nice way of structuring an app and good example of handling multitenancy in a light way by the Tighten team.
Read more [tighten.co]
Laravel Pseudo-Daemons
– aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis
A Laravel package to mimic daemons via scheduled commands without having to change server configuration.
Read more [aaronfrancis.com]
An unopinionated package to make Laravel apps tenant aware original
Today we released a package to make Laravel apps tenant aware, called laravel-multitenancy. The philosophy of this package is that it should only provide the bare essentials to enable multitenancy.
The package can determine which tenant should be the current tenant for the request. It also allows you to define what should happen when switching the current tenant to another one.
It works for multitenancy projects that need to use one or multiple databases.
In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
Composer 2: Platform Check
Composer v2 has a new feature that your server environment is checked at the run-time before the autoloader is even initialized. This is everything you should know about it
Read more [php.watch]
Composer 2: What's new and changed
Composer version 2 will be mostly compatible with your existing workflows, while bringing some more great new features.
Read more [php.watch]
A first look at laravel-backup-server
At Spatie we have 100+ servers that we manage for our clients. The past few weeks, I've invested some time in creating a new Laravel package, called laravel-backup-server that can back them all up. In the video below you'll get a first look at the package.
A package to dump anything to the log original
In this post, I'd like to show you a quick demo of our new package called laravel-log-dumper.
🐟 A package to execute a random artisan command original
Aren't you tired of having to think about which artisan command to execute? The spatie/laravel-random-command package takes that pain away. It provides a random command that will pick a random command and execute it.
Blade Heroicons
– driesvints.com - submitted by Dries Vints
A package by Dries Vints to easily make use of the Heroicons built by Steve Schoger & Adam Wathan in your Laravel Blade views.
Read more [driesvints.com]
A PHP package to execute commands via SSH original
Our team released a new package called spatie/ssh. This package allows you to execute commands via an SSH connection.
Introducing Yarn 2
– dev.to
A good overview of new things Yarn has to offer.
Read more [dev.to]
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.
A package that adds resource links to your Laravel API resources original
At Spatie we have several projects where the UI is rendered using JavaScript (we're big fans of Inertia). The backend and routes are defined in the Laravel app. The backend sends information to the frontend using API resources.
We often add the available routes the frontend can use as links property on the resource. To avoid having to add all routes manually, my colleague Ruben released a package, called laravel-resource-links that can automatically add resource links to the API resource.
In this post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
