A CLI tool to monitor GitHub Actions original
I'm proud to share that our team has launched a new CLI tool called GitHub Actions Watcher.
Invading private properties and methods in PHP
Last week, Caleb tweeted about a nifty function called invade - that he had made to easily work with private properties and methods.
😈 Whatcha think of my new favorite helper method?
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) February 11, 2022
That property/method protected or private? No problemoooo 🔓 pic.twitter.com/HqMXKKpRsJ
He added that invade function to Livewire. Because I could see myself using this in non-Laravel projects, I packaged up the function in a new package called spatie/invade.
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A package to automatically discover routes in a Laravel app original
I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called spatie/laravel-route-discovery. This package can be used to automatically discover and register routes by looking at your controllers and views. Of course, you can also still register routes like you're used to in a routes file.
In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about this package.
A package to quickly send Slack alerts in a Laravel app original
Our team has released a small package called spatie/laravel-slack-alerts. It can be used to send a message to Slack quickly. In this blog post, I'd like to share why we've created this package and how you can use it.
A better error page for Symfony applications original
Ignition is the most beautiful error page for PHP apps. Yesterday, we launched a new major version of Ignition - you can check out all the details in this blog post.
Ignition used to be Laravel specific, but we've now created a framework agnostic version as well. Let's try using Ignition in a simple Symfony app.
Ignition, the most beautiful error page for Laravel and PHP, got a major redesign original
I'm proud to share that our team has released a new major version of Ignition, the most beautiful error page for Laravel and PHP. It has been redesigned from the ground up. Here's how it looks like. This error page will be the default in Laravel 9. You can optionally install it into any Laravel 8 or…
A recap of 2021 original
Now that we are in the final days of 2021, let's take a look back at that stuff my team and I did in 2021.
Send Spatie a Christmas card
Here's something fun my colleagues Alex and Willem have created.
Read more [wishes.spatie.be]
How we improved Flare in 2021
I'm really proud of how our team at Spatie has pushed Flare this year. Here's a list of everything we improved. Spoiler: it's a lot!
Read more [flareapp.io]
A Laravel package to monitor the health of your application original
I'm proud to announce that we've released a new package called Laravel Health. As the name implies, this package can be used to monitor the health of your Laravel application.
It offers many checks out of the box, and an easy way to create custom checks. When something is wrong, you can get a notification, or view the status on a dashboard.
The package also offers deep integration with Oh Dear, allowing for even more robust monitoring
I want to tell you all about it in this blog post. Let's go!
Our improved changelog workflow for packages original
For years, my team and I manually updated the changelog for our 250+ packages. Recently, we've improved how we go about this.
In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
Measuring caffeine intake at Spatie
My colleague Alex finished a very cool sideproject. Using a Raspberry Pi he can now measure how many cups of coffee we drink at the office
Read more [alexvanderbist.com]
Laravel Package Training v2 is now available original
I am excited to share that my team and I have just launched v2.0 of our Laravel Package Training video course.
Here's a the introductory video for the course:
Creating multi-worksheet Excel files with Simple Excel
Here's how to use our spatie/simple-excel package to reate multi-worksheet files.
Read more [www.csrhymes.com]
Avoid describing your data multiple times in a Laravel app using laravel-data original
In the vast majority of applications you work with data structures. Sometimes that data is described multiple times. Think for instance of a form request that tries to validate a blog post model, and an API transformer class for that same blog post model. Changes are that both classes describe the same properties.
Using our new laravel-data package, those structures only need to be described once.
A Laravel package to crawl and index content of your sites original
The newly released spatie/laravel-site-search package can crawl and index the content of one or more sites. You can think of it as a private Google search for your sites. Like most Spatie packages, it is highly customizable: you have total control over what content gets crawled and indexed.
To see the package in action, head over to the search page of this very blog.
In this post, I'd like to introduce the package to you and highlight some implementation and testing details. Let's dig in!
Replacing Keytar with Electron's safeStorage in Ray original
Ray is an app we built at Spatie to make debugging your applications easier and faster. Being web developers, we naturally decided to write this app in Electron, which enabled us to move from nothing to a working prototype to a released product on 3 separate platforms within a matter of weeks.
Announcing x-ray for Ray
– dev.to - submitted by Patrick
Using this package, you can quickly scan source code for calls to Ray
Read more [dev.to]
Introducing a new package to add a support form to your app original
We've created a new package that can render a beautiful support form widget on any page. You can read more about the package in this blog post at Flare.
In this stream, I'll show you how to use the package. We'll also source dive its code.
How to handle GitHub webhooks in a Laravel application original
Whenever something happens in one of your repos on GitHub, you can configure a webhook to be sent to your app. This way, you can perform some extra logic when a particular event occurs on the repo. A silly example would be to send someone a mail when an issue is opened.
We've created a new package called spatie/laravel-github-webhooks that makes it easy to consume GitHub webhooks in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
