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🚀 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.

Dealing with the n+1 problem in Laravel

Jun 9th 2021

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

Jun 7th 2021 – tideways.com

Benjamin Eberlei tells the story of a performance mistake that is quickly made even by experienced developers.

How Laravel handles DB connections

Jun 7th 2021

Mohammed Said created another kick ass video, this time on how Laravel handles DB connections.

PHP Short Functions and Scope

Jun 3rd 2021 – rosswintle.uk

Ross Wintle dissected the recent RFC for auto-capturing multi-statement closures in PHP.

Using Laravel's parallel testing inside your package tests

Jun 2nd 2021 – www.rias.be

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.

Improve code readability by refactoring if blocks to dedicated classes original

May 31st 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

If you code bases contains a long procedure with a lot of if statements to determine which case should be handle, consider extracting each case to its own dedicated class. Here's an example from the Mailcoach code base.

Laravel Sidecar: Deploy & Execute Lambda Functions from Laravel

May 20th 2021 – github.com - submitted by Aaron Francis

Sidecar packages, creates, deploys, and executes Lambda functions from your Laravel application.

A trick to improve your class names original

May 17th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

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

May 12th 2021 – doeken.org

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

A package to watch for file system changes in PHP original

May 12th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

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

May 10th 2021 – blog.packagist.com

Jordi is back with another post containing interesting statistics around PHP usage.

Double Dispatch

May 10th 2021 – www.tonysm.com - submitted by Tony Messias

Tony Messias explains this design pattern using a cool example.

The magic of dedicated exception classes original

May 10th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

You can make your code more readable by moving all your exception messages to dedicated classes. We using this technique in all our projects and packages.

Dealing with expired signed URLs in Laravel original

May 6th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Out of the box, Laravel comes with the ability to generate "signed" URLs. These URLs have a hash in their query string that verifies that the URL was not modified.

At Flare, we use these signed URLs to add action links in mail notifications. The action links allow users to snooze and resolve errors right from the mail without having to be logged in. Pretty convenient!

My buddy Dries Vints noticed a slight drawback. He got a mail from Flare that contains these action links. A few hours after the mail arrived, he clicked one of the action links. This is what he saw.

Develop faster by adding dev routes file in a Laravel app original

May 5th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Laravel's awesome closure based routing was probably one of the first features I fell in love with. I take it for granted now, but back in the days, such a simple way of adding a route felt like a glass of water in hell compared to the other frameworks.

Typically, you would only add routes that are necessary for the users of your app. Something that I have been doing for a long time is to create a routes file, called dev.php, with routes that can help with app development.

PHP's bus factor

May 4th 2021 – blog.krakjoe.ninja

PHP is a fantastic language that has seen many cool improvements over the past few years. What you may not be aware of is that only a very few people can work on the language itself. This is obviously not healthy and hopefully this situation will improve in the future.

Keep controllers clean by using form requests in Laravel original

May 3rd 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Most people use form requests solely for validation, but they can also help to keep your controllers clean. Here's how we use them in Mailcoach

Exploring Event Sourcing (part 2) original

May 3rd 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

In this stream my colleague Brent and I continued our conversation about the foundations of event sourcing. This time we showed a shopping cart that we've built using Laravel and event sourcing.

If you're interested in learning more about event sourcing, be sure to check out our upcoming course on using event sourcing in Laravel.

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