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Craft emails that look good in each email client using MJML original

Aug 25th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

In a perfect world, email clients can render HTML as good as major browsers. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Email clients don't support modern HTML and CSS niceties and have a lot of quirks to be mindful of. Making sure an HTML email looks good in the most used email clients takes a lot of work.

To make crafting HTML emails a lot more enjoyable, the folks at Mailjet created a solution called MJML, which stands for "Mailjet Markup Language." It's an easy-to-use abstraction layer over HTML.

We have created a new package called spatie/mjml-php to easily convert MJML to HTML using PHP. If you're using Sidecar, you'll be happy to know that we've also created a package called spatie/mjml-sidecar, to convert MJML to HTML using Sidecar.

In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.

Implementing social logins at Flare

Jul 31st 2023 – flareapp.io

You can now log into Flare and Oh Dear using your Google or GitHub account. In this blog post, you'll see the code that powers the social login feature.

Introducing laravel-backup-restore

Jun 21st 2023 – stefanzweifel.dev - submitted by Stefan Zweifel

Do you create automated backups of your database? Are you sure they work? laravel-backup-restore is a new package than can help you verify the integrity of your backups.

Ray is the best home for your Next.js debugging output

Jun 21st 2023 – myray.app - submitted by Spatie

Debug logging is difficult in Next.js. In this post, we'll provide a solution to this issue.

Visualising Laravel and Horizon metrics using Prometheus and Grafana original

Jun 13th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 11 minute read

I'm proud to announce that we've released a new package called spatie/laravel-prometheus. Using this package, you can send all sorts of metrics (user counts, subscription counts, queue workloads) around your Laravel to Prometheus and visualize the historical trends using Grafana.

Use ray()->trace() to figure out where a call came from original

Jun 12th 2023 – myray.app

An important problem of a programmer's productivity is finding his way through the code. A good project structure and your IDE can get you a long way, but sometimes it’s not enough.

A Laravel package to quickly see which HTML is rendered by which Blade view original

May 30th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 6 minute read

I'm happy to share that we have released our latest package, spatie/laravel-blade-comments.

This package can add comments to your rendered HTML output. For each Blade view that was used to build up the response, it adds start and ending comments.

Invoice PDF Generation With Browsershot

May 2nd 2023 – fly.io - submitted by Johannes Werbrouck

Invoicing is boring and manually writing up invoices even more so, that's why you should automate the entire process in your app. Here, I show you how to use Spatie’s wonderful Browsershot package to do just that.

Sit Down with Freek Van der Herten

Apr 6th 2023 - submitted by Bert De Swaef

Here's a fun interview I did with Bert.

Laravel Analytics v5 with support for GA4 has been released original

Apr 6th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

We've released a new major version of our Laravel Analytics package. The most important new feature of this release is the support for GA4.

Create a Simple App Status Indicator

Apr 3rd 2023 – blog.helpspace.com

Here's how you can use Oh Dear to show the server status of your app right on your landing page.

Skipping tests conditionally in Pest original

Apr 3rd 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 7 minute read

In this blog post, I'd like to show the easiest way to skip tests conditionally in tests. Using the simple technique, which can be used for other things besides skipping tests, you can make your tests much more flexible.

Optimising Flare

Mar 27th 2023 – flareapp.io

The laravel-data package is fantastic to work with, but it also adds a lot of complexity when outputting data. In this blog post, we will look at how we've improved the performance of the package and, thus, the complete Flare application.

Announcing Duster, a Code Linter and Fixer for Laravel

Mar 10th 2023 – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

Don’t waste your team’s time fixing little code style issues... and DEFINITELY don’t ship code w/inconsistent code style! Check out our new package Duster, a powerful all-in-one code linter & fixer bundling all the best code styles for your Laravel apps!

Fixing nested validation in Laravel

Mar 8th 2023 – flareapp.io

My colleague Ruben explains some improvements that were made in the latest version of our popular Laravel Data package

Ray can now display the values of private properties original

Mar 3rd 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Our handy Ray debugging app gained a cool new trick: it can now display the values of private properties and results of private methods.

Strategies for making Laravel packages customizable original

Mar 3rd 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 10 minute read

While attending Laracon India, many people approached me to ask how we handle the maintenance of all our Spatie packages. One of the ways we keep maintenance burden low is by making our packages customizable. In this blog post, I'd like to cover some of our best tips to make a Laravel package easy…

Log all notifications sent by your Laravel app original

Feb 26th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

We've released a new package called Laravel Notification Log. True to its name, it will log when your Laravel app sends notifications. It also contains helpful methods to determine when notifications were sent.

A package to integrate HelpSpace in your Laravel app original

Jan 27th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

I'm happy to announce that we've released another new package: spatie/laravel-help-space. This one makes it easy to populate a custom sidebar in HelpSpace with the data from your Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

A package to automatically copy deleted records to a separate table original

Jan 16th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

We've released a new package called spatie/laravel-deleted-models. When deleting a model, this package will copy over its attributes to a table called deleted_models.

You can view this package as a "Recycle bin for models".

In this post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

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