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.
Here's a neat use of our Blink package.
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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:
We're already using this package to render all our documentation pages, our guidelines, and this very blog you are reading.
In the second part of this stream, I'll walk you through the inner workings of our new spatie/laravel-artisan-dispatchable package.
In the first part of this stream, my colleague Seb explains how spatie/laravel-google-fonts works under the hood.
Sebastian made a pretty interesting package to self host Google Fonts
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Alex explains how we use Satis to give users of paid Spatie products access to private repos.
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Laravel transporter is an easy to use wrapper around Laravel PendingRequest that allows you to define requests as classes, and override options at run time when you need to.
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Our team has released a new Laravel package: spatie/laravel-artisan-dispatchable. This package allows you to dispatch any job from an artisan command.
In this blog post, I'd like to explain why we created the package and how you can use it.
A couple of years ago, Ignition became the default error page in Laravel.
Ignition provided a vastly improved design over Whoops: it brought Laravel specific niceties (such as showing the routing, queries) and the ability to display and even run solutions (e.g. generating an app key).
At Spatie, we think we can improve the design of Ignition even more. Our initial plan was to release this new design in tandem with Laravel 9 as a big bang surprise release. We've changed our mind on this because we'd like to have feedback from the community.
In this blog post, I'd like to share our ideas and plans for Ignition.
Our team has released a new package called file-system-watcher. As the name implies, this package can watch changes in the file system and let you act on those changes.
Our team released a new package called spatie/fork. Using this package you can easily execute multiple pieces of code concurrently.
I'm proud to announce yet another package by our team: spatie/laravel-interacts-with-payload. This one, which was inspired by a blog post by James Brooks, can inject data in all your jobs with just one line of code.
In this video, you'll see the package in action, I explain the internals and the tests. If you prefer reading, continue below the video.
Our test-time package makes writing tests, for code that makes its decisions based on the current time, very easy.
Here's how we use the package for some tests in Mailcoach.
I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called spatie/laravel-stats. This package is a lightweight solution for summarizing changes in your database over time.
YouTube star Povilas Korop shares and discusses five rules from our guidelines.
Here's an excerpt from Event Sourcing in Laravel, an premium course by Spatie launching later this year.
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We've released a new major version of spatie/data-transfer-object. This package makes it easy to create objects that have a certain shape. Properties can even be validated.
🐘 Need self-validating PHP objects? Here you go!https://t.co/osPCSr0qu8
— Freek Van der Herten 🎆 (@freekmurze) April 2, 2021
Gotta love PHP 8
Very nice work by @brendt_gd pic.twitter.com/Sn1mS7R8Sv
In this post I'd like to tell you more the package.
When you cancel a long-running artisan command with Ctrl+C, a SIGINT signal is sent by the operating system to the PHP process. You can use this signal to perform some cleanup quickly.
Symfony 5.2 introduced support for handling signals in commands.
We've released a package called spatie/laravel-signal-aware-commands that provides a substantial improvement to how you can use these signals in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
