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Send Spatie a Christmas card

Dec 23rd 2021 – wishes.spatie.be

Here's something fun my colleagues Alex and Willem have created.

How we improved Flare in 2021

Dec 15th 2021 – flareapp.io

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!

A Laravel package to monitor the health of your application original

Dec 13th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 15 minute read

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!

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Our improved changelog workflow for packages original

Nov 24th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

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

Nov 17th 2021 – alexvanderbist.com

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

Laravel Package Training v2 is now available original

Nov 15th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

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

Oct 28th 2021 – www.csrhymes.com

Here's how to use our spatie/simple-excel package to reate multi-worksheet files.

Avoid describing your data multiple times in a Laravel app using laravel-data original

Oct 28th 2021 by Ruben Van Assche – 12 minute read

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

Oct 19th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 12 minute read

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

Oct 18th 2021 by Adriaan Marain – 3 minute read

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

Sep 17th 2021 – dev.to - submitted by Patrick

Using this package, you can quickly scan source code for calls to Ray

Introducing a new package to add a support form to your app original

Sep 2nd 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

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

Jul 27th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

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.

Announcing our Testing Laravel premium video course

Jul 26th 2021

Knowing how to write automated tests is a fundamental skill for any developer. By adding a quality test suite to your application, you'll end up with fewer bugs in production. It allows you to refactor with confidence using a test suite that has your back.

We're currently recording a new premium video course called Testing Laravel. It will be released in September.

Use Blink to execute something once and only once

Jul 23rd 2021 – sebastiandedeyne.com

Here's a neat use of our Blink package.

How to render markdown with perfectly highlighted code snippets original

Jul 13th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 6 minute read

When reading technical blogpost around the web, you might have noticed that code highlighting is not always perfect.

Shiki is the code highlighter that uses the textmate parser VSCode uses under the hood. The code highlighting it provides is near perfect, even when using modern syntax. It supports 100+ languages (via our package Blade is supported too), and all VS Code themes.

I'm proud to announce that we have released three new Spatie packages that make it easy to use Shiki in your PHP projects:

shiki-php: makes it easy to call Shiki from PHP to highlight a given code snippet
commonmark-shiki-highlighter: allows commonmark to highlight all code snippets in a markdown fragment
laravel-markdown: a batteries included Laravel package that offers a Blade component to easily render Markdown with highlighted code snippets and a class to render Markdown manually.

We're already using this package to render all our documentation pages, our guidelines, and this very blog you are reading.

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