Selling digital products using Laravel part 10: Miscellaneous interesting tidbits + outro original
We've already covered a lot of ground in this series. Let's finish by highlighting some miscellaneous interesting tidbits.
Selling digital products using Laravel part 9: Serving ads on GitHub original
Our company has created a lot of open-source packages. At the moment of writing, we have over 200 packages, which have been downloaded nearly 100 million times. Because we think the package users might be interested in our paid offerings as well, we've put a small ad in the readme of each repo. In this blogpost I'll explain how we manage these ads using Laravel Nova and S3.
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Selling digital products using Laravel part 8: Mailing updates and news using Mailcoach original
We'd like to stay in touch with the people interested in our products by sending them emails when we got some news on an upcoming product, or when we are running a promo for existing products. To handle subscriptions and send out emails, we use our home-grown Laravel package Mailcoach. Let's take a look at how we use Mailcoach ourselves.
Selling digital products using Laravel part 7: Importing package documentation from GitHub original
On our site you'll find the documentation of our bigger bigger packages, like laravel-medialibrary, laravel-backup, laravel-event-sourcing, ... Let's take a look at how that works.
Selling digital products using Laravel part 6: Building a video section using Vimeo original
On our website, we have a video section. All our videos uploaded to and handled via Vimeo where we have a Pro subscription. We chose Vimeo because it has an excellent widget to display videos, it converts our videos very fast, and it has a nice API to work with. Let's take a look at how Vimeo is integrated in our site.
Selling digital products using Laravel part 1: Intro + a tour of spatie.be original
On our Laravel powered company website we sell digital products: video courses, e-books, and software packages. Behind the scenes we use Laravel, Paddle, Vimeo, the GitHub API and a couple of other things.
We've open-sourced our site. You'll find the actual code we have deployed in the spatie-be repo on GitHub. In this blog post, I'll guide you through the code.
Selling digital products using Laravel part 5: Using Satis to install private packages original
Some of our products, like Mailcoach and Media Library Pro, are PHP packages for which people can buy a time-limited license. Of course, we want customers to be able to install our paid packages using Composer. Our paid packages are not registered on Packagist, because Packagist is meant to be used for free packages, and there's no way to handle licenses. Let's take a look at how we can solve this using Satis.
Typing your frontend from the backend
My colleague Ruben introduces the laravel-typescript-transformer package he created. This one can convert backend classes, like enums and DTOs, to TypeScript definitions.
Read more [rubenvanassche.com]
Why and how you should monitor scheduled tasks original
Oh Dear is the monitoring SaaS that my buddy Mattias and I are running. As you might suspect, our service can monitor the uptime of sites and SSL certificates' health. What sets Oh Dear apart from the competition is that it can also monitor performance and detect broken links and mixed content on any of the pages of your site.
Today, we added a new type of monitoring: scheduled tasks monitoring. Oh Dear can now notify you whenever one of your scheduled tasks has not run or is running too late.
You can get started monitoring your schedule today. We have a free ten-day trial. And when using this coupon code, you'll get 30% off on the first three months when subscribing: MONITOR-ALL-THE-THINGS.
In this blog post, I'd like to introduce how you can use scheduled task monitoring in Oh Dear, and how it works under the hood. There were a lot of interesting challenges we had to solve. I hope you're ready to dig it.
How to delete 900 million records in MySQL without shooting yourself in the foot
When reviewing the contents of the database of Flare, we encountered a table with 1 billion records. Technically that isn't a problem. Flare runs on Vapor and uses an Aurora database, so it can handle that scale. But of course, there's a cost for storing that many records.
We dove in and concluded that we could safely delete about 900 million records. They all were created before a specific date.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Moving 27K unique images from Spatie medialibrary local to s3 storage using Laravel Queue
On his blog, Robin Dirksen shares how he migrated the files of his app to S3
Read more [robindirksen.nl]
How to call an overridden trait function original
Traits are a wonderful thing in PHP. You can use them to reduce code duplication by putting common functions in a trait and apply them to all classes where those functions are needed. I also sometimes use traits to break up a large function in multiple single-use traits.
In this post, I'd like to show you how you can override a trait function and call it from the overriding function.
How to schedule commands to run every few seconds in a Laravel app original
Using our spatie/laravel-short-schedule package you can schedule commands at sub-minute intervals.
How to group queued jobs using Laravel 8's new Batch class original
Laravel 8 offers a shiny new way to group multiple jobs into one batch. This will allow you to easily check how many job there are in a batch, what to total progress is and even cancel all jobs in a batch.
In this blog post, I'd like to share how we will use this feature in the upcoming v3 of Mailcoach. We'll also take a look at how batches are implemented under the hood in Laravel.
Video: building a realtime dashboard power by Laravel and Livewire original
Earlier this year, our team released laravel-dashboard, a package that allows you to set up powerful dashboards in no time! In this talk, given at this years Laracon EU Online, I demonstrate how you can use it and how it works under the hood. Want to see more package source dives? Considering…
How to clean up huge tables in Laravel with ease original
Using our laravel-model-cleanup package, you can easily remove old unneeded records from your database. We recently released a new major version that adds support for safely cleaning out huge tables.
In this blog post, I'd like to introduce this new release of the package to you.
Introducing Laravel Schedule Monitor original
Since version 5, Laravel has a built-in scheduler to perform tasks at regular intervals. In normal circumstances, these scheduled tasks will run just fine.
Out of the box, Laravel doesn't offer a way to see the status of the scheduled tasks. When did they run, how long did a task run, which tasks did throw an exception?
Laravel Schedule Monitor is a new Spatie package that monitors all schedule tasks in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
