Composer 2: What's new and changed
Composer version 2 will be mostly compatible with your existing workflows, while bringing some more great new features.
Read more [php.watch]
Using the spread operator in PHP 7.4
Did you know that since PHP 7.4, it's possible to use the spread operator in arrays? 👨🏻🔬 pic.twitter.com/Wg6Ouc5OYj
— NUNO MADURO (@enunomaduro) April 10, 2020
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Query time casting in Laravel
🧙♂️ One of my favorite Laravel 7 features is query time casting. This is super handy when using a subquery to get extra "non-model" data, such as a date. By default it would be a string. This feature lets you cast it to a Carbon instance "on the fly". 👌https://t.co/Kd94iMsomA pic.twitter.com/VIzowGy3um
— Jonathan Reinink (@reinink) April 15, 2020
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Using PEST in Laravel
My buddy Nuno is working on an interesting project to improve the experience of writing tests.
Read more [nunomaduro.com]
6 Eloquent Secrets
At Laravel News, Stefan Bauer shared some cool Eloquent tips and tricks
Read more [laravel-news.com]
A package to dump anything to the log original
In this post, I'd like to show you a quick demo of our new package called laravel-log-dumper.
Using Blade components for layouts
🔥 You can use @laravelphp’s Blade components for layouts too. Way cleaner than extending imho. pic.twitter.com/Ol29sCsOci
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) April 10, 2020
Replacing websockets with Livewire original
Up until a few days ago, the real-time UI of Oh Dear (an uptime monitoring SaaS I run) was powered with web sockets. We recently replaced this with Livewire components.
In this blog post, I'd like to explain why and how we did that.
I'm going to assume that you already know what Livewire is. If not, head over to the Livewire docs. There's even a short video course on there. In short, Livewire enables you to create dynamic UIs using server-rendered partials.
The Beauty of Single Action Controllers
– driesvints.com - submitted by Dries Vints
Dries Vints wrote a bost on why he uses single action controllers.
Read more [driesvints.com]
Using the 1-click-installer to set up Mailcoach in no time original
A couple of weeks ago, we released Mailcoach: an affordable, self-hosted solution to send out newsletters. Installing it into an existing Laravel application is quite easy if you have experience with Laravel.
We wanted to make getting started with Mailcoach easier for those without experience with Laravel or PHP. Using our a 1-click-installer on the Digital Ocean marketplace you can set up an entire Mailcoach installation in a couple of minutes.
In this blogpost I'd like to show you how you can use the installer and how we built it.
Date Ranges in Laravel
– medium.com - submitted by Pavol Perdik
In this article Pavol Perdik writes about the native PostgreSQL type daterange and how to easily use it in Laravel.
Read more [medium.com]
Some cool Laravel 7 Blade components original
One of my favourite new features of Laravel 7 are Blade components. The allow you to define custom html tags that are backed by Blade partials. In this blogpost I'd like to show you a couple very handy components.
This blogpost assumes that you already know how you can use Blade components.
Make PHP lib functions like dump() or dd() globally available
Julien Bourdeau explains how you can use the auto_prepend_file option of PHP.
Read more [www.sigerr.org]
PHP reimagined
This is what would happen to PHP if my colleague Brent's will was law.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Testing without mocking frameworks
A must read by Frank de Jonghe on testing.
Read more [blog.frankdejonge.nl]
Building complex forms with Laravel Livewire in Oh Dear original
Together with my buddy Mattias Geniar, I run Oh Dear, an uptime checker service on steroids.
Unlike most uptime trackers, Oh Dear doesn't only check your homepage, but every single page of your site. When we detect a broken link or some mixed content, we send a notification. Oh, and we provide status pages, like this one from Laravel and Flare too.
In this blog post, I'd like to show you how we use Livewire to render some complex forms in the UI of Oh Dear.
Dropping support for a PHP version is not a breaking change
Seb explains why it's perfectly safe to drop a major version of PHP without tagging a new major version of a package.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Event driven server in PHP
Brent did a cool experiment with ReactPHP and event sourcing.
Read more [stitcher.io]
How to check which version of PHP you are running original
When working on open source code, I like using the latest version of PHP. When developers that are not on the latest version use the package, they might see syntax errors.
You might ask why Composer doesn't protect against this? When composer.json requires the latest version, how do devs, not on the latest version, can even install the package?
Well, there seemingly are a lot of people that only upgrade the PHP version on the command line. For handling web requests, they are unknowingly using an older version of PHP. Here's how to make sure you are on the latest version of PHP on both the CLI and for handling web requests.
