– davorminchorov.com - submitted by Davor Minchorov
Everyone talks about over-engineering but people rarely talk about under-engineering. Learn about the differences and how they depend on the context you are in.
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My colleague Seb made a cool package to write complex expectations in a readable way.
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Today, we released the ohdearapp/ohdear-pulse package, which contains Laravel Pulse cards to show you the status of your scheduled jobs, any broken links you have in your Laravel app, and uptime / HTTP performance stats.
Here’s what the scheduled jobs card looks like.
In this blog post, I'd like to tell you more about these cards.
We’ve released a new package called spatie/laravel-pdf, a batteries-included package to generate PDFs in Laravel apps. Under the hood, it uses Chromium to generate PDFs from Blade views. You can use modern CSS features like grid, flexbox, and even frameworks like Tailwind to create beautiful PDFs.
In this post, I’d like to introduce and demonstrate the package.
– www.youtube.com - submitted by Chris Fidao
FrankenPHP not only adds the great feature set of Caddy to Laravel, but can also compile everything down to a single executable that you can run anywhere!
Read more [www.youtube.com]
We’ve released a new major version of spatie/image, v3. This package makes it very easy to manipulate images using PHP.
At the same time, we’ve also released a new major version of spatie/laravel-medialibrary. This is a powerhouse package that can associate all kinds of files with Eloquent models. The latest version of this package now uses spatie/image v3 under the hood for manipulating images.
In this blog post, I’ll explain why we made new major versions and how they can be used.
– muhammedsari.me - submitted by Muhammed Sari
Mastering elation with the decorator foundation! Let's take a look at how we can leverage this simple, yet powerful design pattern in the context of a Laravel package.
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– pestphp.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro
The PEST team just announced the release of a brand new plugin for Pest PHP: Stressless.
Read more [pestphp.com]
– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
Learn how to detect and resolve N+1 issues in your Laravel project by using Ray.
Read more [myray.app]
– blog.oussama-mater.tech - submitted by Oussama Mater
Let's create toggleable Laravel routes for specific environments using PHP attributes.
Read more [blog.oussama-mater.tech]
– www.otsch.codes - submitted by Christian Olear
Abstract classes cannot be instantiated directly, posing a challenge when testing functionality implemented within the abstract class itself. In this article, I share my approach to addressing this issue.
Read more [www.otsch.codes]
– rias.be
Stale While Revalidate (SWR) is a strategy to first return the data from the cache, then send the fetch request, and finally come up with the up-to-date data.
Read more [rias.be]
– seankegel.com - submitted by Sean Kegel
This article provides a guide on simplifying API integration in Laravel using the Http Facade, with a focus on building a reusable API request and client class.
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– muhammedsari.me - submitted by Muhammed Sari
Muhammed's been working with Eloquent for over half a decade now, and it's time to share his next bag of tricks. You are guaranteed to learn something new!
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– jeffochoa.me - submitted by Jeff
Although PHP Enumerations are meant to provide an easy and elegant solution to work with a predefined set of values, these classes are often misused, resulting in a lack of consistency due to the introduction of all sorts of methods that increase their complexity. In this article, we are going to go through some practices (both good and bad) with the goal of clarifying the understanding of these types of objects to help you build a more resilient and consistent codebase.
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– daryllegion.com - submitted by Daryl Legion
Duplicate form submissions or requests can be a common issue in web applications, often leading to unintended consequences. Laravel offers a straightforward solution to prevent these duplicates by using atomic locks.
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– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
In this video you'll learn how to implement "load more" functionality with Livewire 3 in about 2 minutes.
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– imacrayon.com - submitted by Christian Taylor
How to easily progressively enhance an instant search component with Alpine AJAX so that it works with or without JavaScript available.
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– www.conroyp.com - submitted by Paul Conroy
Writing tests to validate behaviour in a multi-tenancy, multi-database app can be challenging. "Lock wait timeout" errors, or transactions cleaned up in one db and not another - it can be very frustrating! Fortunately, Laravel has a way to support db transactions across multiple databases.
Read more [www.conroyp.com]
– devonmather.dev - submitted by Devon Mather
We will look at a couple of common scenarios where adding a couple of lines to your tests can future-proof your application from data loss when using Model Observers.
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