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Generators vs arrays

Jul 22nd 2021 – doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg

Yield better results by iterating over generators. Learn more about these supercharged arrays that can preserve memory.

Convert Guzzle requests to curl commands

Jul 22nd 2021 – github.com

I came across this cool package that helped me debug a weird request performed by Guzzle.

How to render markdown with perfectly highlighted code snippets original

Jul 13th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 6 minute read

When reading technical blogpost around the web, you might have noticed that code highlighting is not always perfect.

Shiki is the code highlighter that uses the textmate parser VSCode uses under the hood. The code highlighting it provides is near perfect, even when using modern syntax. It supports 100+ languages (via our package Blade is supported too), and all VS Code themes.

I'm proud to announce that we have released three new Spatie packages that make it easy to use Shiki in your PHP projects:

shiki-php: makes it easy to call Shiki from PHP to highlight a given code snippet
commonmark-shiki-highlighter: allows commonmark to highlight all code snippets in a markdown fragment
laravel-markdown: a batteries included Laravel package that offers a Blade component to easily render Markdown with highlighted code snippets and a class to render Markdown manually.

We're already using this package to render all our documentation pages, our guidelines, and this very blog you are reading.

Getting started with Laravel Spotlight

Jul 8th 2021 – philo.dev - submitted by Philo

Learn how to use Laravel Spotlight to supercharge your web application with an easy-to-use command palette that your users will love.

Source diving Laravel Artisan Dispatchable

Jul 8th 2021

In the second part of this stream, I'll walk you through the inner workings of our new spatie/laravel-artisan-dispatchable package.

PHP version stats: July, 2021

Jul 2nd 2021 – stitcher.io

Here are the update stats on PHP usage (Jordi passed the baton to my colleague Brent)

The case for partials and pipes in PHP

Jul 1st 2021 – peakd.com

PHP Contributor Larry Garfield walks us through a couple of neat ideas and RFC's for PHP he's been working on. I would very much welcome a pipe operator in PHP.

Organizing Miscellaneous Utility Functions

Jun 30th 2021 – afilina.com

Anna Filina shares how she goes about organizing small functions.

Runtime (Big O) Of Laravel's One-Of-Many Relationship

Jun 29th 2021 – lennartcb.me

In this article Lennart Carstens-Behrens explains a very impressive PR he recently submitted at the Laravel repo.

Automatically fix PHP and JS code style problems on GitHub PRs

Jun 25th 2021 – dekker.io

Claudio Dekker runs you through the GitHub action he created to automatically handle code styling issues at Laravel

How to compile PHP from Source

Jun 24th 2021 – thephp.website

Knowing how to compile PHP will open one of the few doors necessary for contributing to the PHP language. Once you get familiar with this it will be much easier for you to contribute in many ways such as running tests and uploading reports, writing new tests by yourself and bug reporting/fixing.

How to Dynamically Update Twitter Cover Image to Show Latest Followers

Jun 24th 2021 – dev.to

Erika Heidi created a nice solution to generate and update cover images on your Twitter account. In this blog post she explains it all.

Setting up and securing a private Composer repository

Jun 24th 2021 – alexvanderbist.com

Alex explains how we use Satis to give users of paid Spatie products access to private repos.

What about config builders?

Jun 23rd 2021 – stitcher.io

My colleague Brent shares some thoughts on possible improvements to handling config values.

Laravel Transporter, how to make OOP API requests

Jun 23rd 2021 – www.juststeveking.uk - submitted by Steve McDougall

Laravel transporter is an easy to use wrapper around Laravel PendingRequest that allows you to define requests as classes, and override options at run time when you need to.

Don't test constructors

Jun 15th 2021 – matthiasnoback.nl

Matthias Noback wrote down some good testing advice.

A Laravel package to dispatch jobs via Artisan original

Jun 14th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Our team has released a new Laravel package: spatie/laravel-artisan-dispatchable. This package allows you to dispatch any job from an artisan command.

In this blog post, I'd like to explain why we created the package and how you can use it.

Writing better Regular Expressions in PHP

Jun 11th 2021 – php.watch

Regular expressions are powerful, PHP but they are not known to be readable, and more often than not, maintaining a regular expression is not a straight-forward task. Here are some tips to improve and write better regular expressions in PHP.

🚀 Event Sourcing for Laravel is now available original

Jun 11th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

I'm thrilled to announce that our premium course Event Sourcing in Laravel has just launched.

If you ever wanted to get started with event sourcing, this is the course for you. It contains a beautifully designed ebook, two hours worth of videos, and a demo Laravel app containing an event-sourced shopping cart.

Event sourcing isn't an all or nothing approach. Even if your project doesn't need the full power of event sourcing, you can still benefit from knowing and implementing best practices from the event sourcing world.

We're offering a 20% launch discount for the next two weeks to celebrate this release.

In this stream, you can see my colleague Brent and I launch the course, and answer questions from the audience.

JSON API Error Responses in Laravel with Httpable Exceptions

Jun 10th 2021 – jessarcher.com

Jess Archer show a nice approach on how to use exception in the HTTP layer.