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How we used Caddy and Laravel's subdomain routing to serve our status pages

– ohdear.app

My buddy Mattias explains how you can use Laravel and Caddy to handle https traffic to dynamic subdomains.

We recently launched our new Status Page feature. Under the hood, it's using the Caddy proxy server and Laravel's subdomain routing to serve the right status page on the right domain. With this technology stack, we can automatically generate, configure & renewe the SSL certificates for custom domains of our clients.

Read more [ohdear.app]

Reducing Complexity with Guard Clauses in PHP and JavaScript

– engineering.helpscout.com

In this old, but still relevant, blog post Craig Davis explains what guard clauses are and how they can be used to clean up your code.

We’ll first explore several versions of a sample method from a hypothetical billing system. For these purposes, we’ll assume this is code in an existing system and we’ll look at refactoring it to reduce complexity and make it easier for a programmer to understand. The first example will be trivial enough to easily understand, but we’ll build on it in the final examples.

Read more [engineering.helpscout.com]

How to integrate Elasticsearch in your Laravel App

– madewithlove.be

Tony Messias wrote a good post on the Madewithlove blog on how to get started using Elastichsearch in a Laravel app.

One of the most popular ways is using Elasticsearch. It is a very powerful tool and it comes with a variety of useful features and complementary tools. We are going to cover the basics here and leave you with some links for more resources if you want to dig further.

Read more [madewithlove.be]

Multiple forms with same input names on one page

– stefanbauer.me

Stefan Bauer explains how to handle error message when you have multiple forms on one page

Here's another tip! Even if it's documented here I just wanted to show it. Here's the deal: Imagine you have multiple forms one page. For example one contact form and another newsletter signup form. Both of them might have an email field. So who do you know which email field doesn't validate and throws an error?

Read more [stefanbauer.me]

Lazy collections in Laravel

– github.com

Unsung Laravel hero Joseph Silber opened up a very interesting PR to Laravel. Let's hope this one gets accepted.

Whereas the existing Collection class wraps a native array, the new LazyCollection class wraps a native iterator, while still providing most of the methods that we know and love from a regular collection.

Read more [github.com]

4 Ways The Laravel Service Container Helps Us Managing Our Dependencies

– christoph-rumpel.com

Christoph Rumpel wrote a clear post on how you can use Laravel's service container.

The service container is a quite complex topic, and I see many struggling to understand what it does. It was the same for me, and the main reason is that many explanations concentrate on "how" to use the container. With this article, I want to give you my introduction to this topic by focusing on the "why" and "when" the container can help us with our dependencies.

Read more [christoph-rumpel.com]

Laravel and Murphy’s Law

– medium.com

Patrick Brouwers, the creator of Laravel Excel, explains how to handle failing jobs in Laravel

When designing software, don’t only think about the happy path. Write down (preferably with (unit) tests) what all the things are that could go wrong. Then design your solution to be able to recover those situations. (Wether or not automatic.) There isn’t a single solution to rule them all, some processes might need to have specific failure handling while others are fine with the default approach.

Read more [medium.com]

Viewing model counts in the Laravel Debugbar

– reinink.ca

Jonathan Reinink has added a very usefull metric to Laravel debugbar

Last week at Laracon US I gave a talk titled Eloquent Performance Patterns. In that talk I used a custom Laravel Debugbar metric I created to track how many Eloquent models were being hydrated throughout a request. I've had a lot of people asking about this, so today I submitted a pull request to the Laravel Debugbar to add this as an official metric.

Read more [reinink.ca]