I've used this little bash alias for many years to quickly run the tests inside of a project.
alias p="vendor/bin/phpunit"
With this alias in place, I can run the tests by typing "p" on the CLI. Nice!
For a long time, everything was great! But then, Pest appeared on the scene. It's an alternative test runner for PHP with a high focus on developer experience.
A to-the-point summary of all awesome PHP features
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Earlier this week the PHP Foundation was announced. In this stream on GitHub, my buddies Christoph Rumpel, James Brooks and I discuss what we think this means for the future of PHP.
– chriswhite.is - submitted by Chris White
Choosing between Swoole and Roadrunner in a Laravel Octane deployment can be overwhelming - in this post I compare the advantages and disadvantages of both.
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An introduction to using bitmasks in general, and their usage in PHP, Laravel, and MySQL.
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The PHP Foundation will be a non-profit organization whose mission is to ensure the long life and prosperity of the PHP language by funding part/full-time developers that contribute to the language.
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I am excited to share that my team and I have just launched v2.0 of our Laravel Package Training video course.
Here's a the introductory video for the course:
Daniel Coulbourne shares some cool Livewire insights.
– protone.media - submitted by Pascal Baljet
In this series, I show you new features and improvements to the Laravel framework since the original release of version 8. This week is about the Database and Eloquent features in Laravel 8.
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– protone.media - submitted by Pascal Baljet
The Laravel team released so many great Laravel 8.x updates over the last year, it's incredible! I wrote a series of blog posts highlighting some of the best new features and improvements. Today: Collections.
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– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
The Visitor Pattern opens up your entities to extension without changing them (much); and keeps the code separate.
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In your tests, you might have used assertDatabaseHas to make sure that a model actual is persisted.
– blog.frankdejonge.nl - submitted by Robin Dirksen
Bugs caused by race conditions can be a huge source or frustration. They are difficult to identify and often difficult to remedy.
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Here are a few best practices for working with a large tables.
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My current setup (end 2021 edition)
After tweeting out a screenshot, it often get questions around which editor, font or color scheme I'm using. Instead of replying to those questions individually I've decided to just write down the settings and apps that I'm using.
Here's how to use our spatie/simple-excel package to reate multi-worksheet files.
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In the vast majority of applications you work with data structures. Sometimes that data is described multiple times. Think for instance of a form request that tries to validate a blog post model, and an API transformer class for that same blog post model. Changes are that both classes describe the same properties.
Using our new laravel-data package, those structures only need to be described once.
Have you ever had to write an API integration from scratch? Where you're managing the HTTP calls yourself instead of being able to rely on third-party packages?
- submitted by Mateus Guimarães
Mateus Guimaraes show a couple of neat tests powered by Pest.
Mocking, faking; these might sound like intimidating words if you don't know what they are about, but once you do, you'll be able to improve your testing skills significantly.
Part of "the art of testing" is being able to test code in some level of isolation to make sure a test suite is trustworthy and versatile. These topics are so important that we actually made five or six videos on them in our Testing Laravel course.
In this post, I want to share three ways how you can deal with mocking and faking. Let's dive in!
