Setting up and securing a private Composer repository
Alex explains how we use Satis to give users of paid Spatie products access to private repos.
Read more [alexvanderbist.com]
What about config builders?
My colleague Brent shares some thoughts on possible improvements to handling config values.
Read more [stitcher.io]
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Laravel Transporter, how to make OOP API requests
– 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.
Read more [www.juststeveking.uk]
Don't test constructors
Matthias Noback wrote down some good testing advice.
Read more [matthiasnoback.nl]
A Laravel package to dispatch jobs via Artisan original
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
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.
Read more [php.watch]
🚀 Event Sourcing for Laravel is now available original
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
Jess Archer show a nice approach on how to use exception in the HTTP layer.
Read more [jessarcher.com]
Dealing with the n+1 problem in Laravel
Mohamed shows how you can deal with N+1 problems using the $with model attribute and the newly added Model::preventLazyLoading() method.
Performance problems caused by array_unique
Benjamin Eberlei tells the story of a performance mistake that is quickly made even by experienced developers.
Read more [tideways.com]
How Laravel handles DB connections
Mohammed Said created another kick ass video, this time on how Laravel handles DB connections.
PHP Short Functions and Scope
Ross Wintle dissected the recent RFC for auto-capturing multi-statement closures in PHP.
Read more [rosswintle.uk]
Using Laravel's parallel testing inside your package tests
Laravel recently added parallel testing to the framework using the Paratest package which runs PHPUnit in separate parallel processes. Adding support for this in your own package tests is pretty straightforward using orchestral/testbench.
Read more [www.rias.be]
Laravel Sidecar: Deploy & Execute Lambda Functions from Laravel
– github.com - submitted by Aaron Francis
Sidecar packages, creates, deploys, and executes Lambda functions from your Laravel application.
Read more [github.com]
A trick to improve your class names original
Sometimes it is not clear what the responsibility of a certain class is. This can be solved by adding a suffix to the class name.
Custom Access Tokens in Laravel Sanctum
Thanks to Doeke Norg personal access tokens became more flexible in Sanctum. In this blog post, he explains how you might use the new functionality
Read more [doeken.org]
A package to watch for file system changes in PHP original
Our team has released a new package called file-system-watcher. As the name implies, this package can watch changes in the file system and let you act on those changes.
PHP Versions Stats - 2021.1 Edition
Jordi is back with another post containing interesting statistics around PHP usage.
Read more [blog.packagist.com]
Double Dispatch
– www.tonysm.com - submitted by Tony Messias
Tony Messias explains this design pattern using a cool example.
Read more [www.tonysm.com]
