The state of the PHP Developer ecosystem in 2021
JetBrains ran their yearly survey on all the things that devs like and use. Here are the results for the PHP ecosystems
Read more [www.jetbrains.com]
Hostnames as self-executing fetches
Here's a cool technique by Bram Van Damme
Read more [www.bram.us]
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Generators vs arrays
– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
Yield better results by iterating over generators. Learn more about these supercharged arrays that can preserve memory.
Read more [doeken.org]
Convert Guzzle requests to curl commands
I came across this cool package that helped me debug a weird request performed by Guzzle.
Read more [github.com]
How to render markdown with perfectly highlighted code snippets original
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
Learn how to use Laravel Spotlight to supercharge your web application with an easy-to-use command palette that your users will love.
Read more [philo.dev]
Source diving Laravel Artisan Dispatchable
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
Here are the update stats on PHP usage (Jordi passed the baton to my colleague Brent)
Read more [stitcher.io]
The case for partials and pipes in PHP
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.
Read more [peakd.com]
Organizing Miscellaneous Utility Functions
Anna Filina shares how she goes about organizing small functions.
Read more [afilina.com]
Runtime (Big O) Of Laravel's One-Of-Many Relationship
In this article Lennart Carstens-Behrens explains a very impressive PR he recently submitted at the Laravel repo.
Read more [lennartcb.me]
Automatically fix PHP and JS code style problems on GitHub PRs
Claudio Dekker runs you through the GitHub action he created to automatically handle code styling issues at Laravel
Read more [dekker.io]
How to compile PHP from Source
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.
Read more [thephp.website]
How to Dynamically Update Twitter Cover Image to Show Latest Followers
– 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.
Read more [dev.to]
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]
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]
