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Implementing event sourcing: testing aggregates original

Jul 19th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

Earlier this year we released v2 of laravel-event-sourcing. This package is probably the easiest way to getting started with event sourcing in Laravel. A significant feature of v2 was the addition of aggregates.

Today we released another new version of the package that adds test methods. These methods allow you to verify if the aggregate behaves correctly. In this post, I'll show you an example and explain how the test methods are implemented.

These test methods were inspired by the awesome testing methods Frank De Jonge made in his Eventsauce package.

Ordering columns with null values

Jul 16th 2019 – twitter.com

And if you're a @laravelphp user wondering how you can use this feature, you can easily extend the query builder to support this. ?

Gist here: https://t.co/Wuavz0v7p9 pic.twitter.com/Vy6NJdJbcx
— Jonathan Reinink (@reinink) July 16, 2019

How to add webmentions to a Laravel powered blog original

Jul 15th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 8 minute read

The comment section of this blog used to be powered by Disqus. At its core, Disqus works pretty well. But I don't like the fact that it pulls in a lot of JavaScript to make it work. It's also not the prettiest UI. I've recently replaced Disqus comments with webmentions. If you reply to, like or…

Start testing your Laravel applications

Jul 9th 2019 – jasonmccreary.me

Jason McCreary wrote an epic blogpost on how to get started with tests in a Laravel app. I wish I could have read this when I started out with testing.

This brings me to the next common response, we don’t know where to start testing. This comes in two forms. The first form is quite literally we don’t know which test to write first. The second form is more not knowing how to write the first test. ... Today, I want to focus on getting started with testing your Laravel applications.

The case of the Laravel TestCase

Jul 4th 2019 – timacdonald.me

Tim MacDonald, a freelance software developer based in Sydney, investigates how to make Laravel tests run faster. Turns out you a lot can be gained by caching the config.

I saw a conversation on Twitter the other day discussing how Laravel was slowing down a test suite. I decided I wanted to dig into this and see if there was anything to it.

Replace boolean flags with nullable timestamps

Jul 3rd 2019 – twitter.com

A nice little tip to clean up your code base from boolean flags (is_active, is_deleted, is_subscribed) is to switch to nullable timestamps instead.
You remain the same flag functionality, but get the point of time for free. pic.twitter.com/86iHt6ow0X
— Marcel Pociot ? (@marcelpociot) July 2, 2019

How to handle front-end authorization using Laravel, Inertia and TypeScript original

Jul 1st 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 6 minute read

Recently Jeffrey Way published a video titled "Frontend Authorization Brainstorming" on Laracasts. In that video, he shows three ways of passing authorization results to the front-end.

Currently I'm working on a big project that uses Inertia, React and TypeScript. In this blog post, I won't cover those things in detail, but I'd like to show you have we, using those technologies, pass authorization (and routes) to the front-end.

PHP Versions Stats - 2019.1 Edition

Jun 25th 2019 – blog.packagist.com

Jordi Boggiano published a new round up of stats.

The push towards PHP 7.1 and 7.2 happened even faster than in the previous six months. The most required PHP version is still one that is still maintained which is also pretty good news!

Laravel Blade Helpers

Jun 24th 2019 – liamhammett.com

Liam Hammett created a cool package to easily create Blade Helpers in Laravel.

I put together a package that attempts to help make these helper functions that little bit easier to define without the boilerplate of returning the string or having to consider what an expression may be when creating a Blade directive.

?Typed Properties and more: what’s coming in PHP 7.4?

Jun 24th 2019

At the PHP Russia conference, Nikita Popov presented all the nice changes coming to PHP 7.4.

Improving assertions on Laravel fakes original

Jun 24th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

Laravel has some cool fakes that can help you with testing your code. In this short blog post, I'd like to show you a little tip on how to get better feedback when a test that contains such a fake fails.

A Look At PHP’s isset()

Jun 18th 2019 – medium.com

Liam Hammet wrote a good blogpost on the isset language construct.

Let’s take a look through how isset behaves and what’s so special about it. Even if you’re a veteran PHP developer, hopefully, you’ll pick up something new here.

Sending and receiving webhooks in Laravel apps original

Jun 17th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 8 minute read

A webhook is a mechanism where an application can notify an other application that something has happened. Technically, the application sends an HTTP request to that other application. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce you to two packages that we recently released. The first is laravel-webhook-server, which allows you to send webhook requests. The second one is laravel-webhook-client, which makes it easy to receive those webhook request.

Typed properties in PHP

Jun 17th 2019 – stitcher.io

Brent wrote another nice post on PHP. This time on the upcoming typed hints feature of PHP 7.4.

Typed class properties were added in PHP 7.4 and provide a major improvement to PHP's type system. These changes are fully opt-in and backwards compatible. In this post we'll look at the feature in-depth.

Replicate a model to another model

Jun 12th 2019 – twitter.com

In the project that @freekmurze and I are working on, I needed the ability to replicate an existing Eloquent model into a different Eloquent model.

If you feel like this could be useful for you as well, here's the little trait for that:https://t.co/IXFpAsxE35 pic.twitter.com/fCccKmLdQs
— Marcel Pociot ? (@marcelpociot) June 12, 2019

A package to control the flow of time original

Jun 12th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Imagine you're building that your app can notify your user, but you don't want to send more than one notification in a timeframe of five seconds. How are you going to test the time aspect? Do you have to create a test that takes five minutes?

Learning Laravel - Observations, part 1: The service container

Jun 11th 2019 – matthiasnoback.nl

Matthias Noback wrote down some thoughts on the Laravel container

Laravel's service container looks great. I like the idea that it can figure things out mostly by itself. I like that it's PHP-based, and that its syntax is quite compact. I think that most of the convenience functions (e.g. resolve()) and exotic options (like $this->app->resolving()) should be ignored. The best thing you can do for your application in the long term is to let all your services use dependency injection, and to inject only constructor arguments. This keeps things simple, but also portable to other frameworks with other dependency injection containers, or other architectural styles, when the time is there.

Tests and types

Jun 10th 2019 – stitcher.io

My colleague Brent wrote another excellent blog post, this time on tests and types.

So while strong types can help us to ensure program correctness, some tests will always be a necessity to ensure business correctness. It's a matter of "both and", not "either or".

Refactoring to actions original

Jun 10th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 6 minute read

In our recent projects at Spatie, we've started using a concept called "actions". It keeps our controllers and models skinny. It's a straightforward practice. In this blog post, I'd like to explain it to you.

Internal classes in PHP

Jun 7th 2019 – nunomaduro.com

Nuno Maduro, engineer at Algolia, explains what is the value of the @internal tag

The PHP @internal tag can be used to denote that the associated class/method is internal to the library. It's supported by PHPStorm and it warns people that those classes/methods are not meant to be used