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Debug apps running on remote servers using Ray original

Mar 8th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Earlier this year, we released Ray, a desktop app that allows you to debug faster. Instead of dumping values to the browser or console, Ray allows you to display debugging information beautifully in a dedicated window.

Since launch, Ray helps you debug local projects. Today, we're adding the most requested feature to Ray: the ability to connect to remote servers. All output of the ray() call, will be sent securely from your remote server to the local app via SSH.

Using this feature, you can quickly investigate problems on your production servers that you are unable to recreate locally.

In this short video you'll see a quick demo!

A package to prefix ids in a Laravel app original

Feb 25th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

We've released a new package called spatie/laravel-prefixed-ids. In this post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

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Creating a Ruby Gem for Ray

Feb 11th 2021

Ruby veteran Chris Oliver explained to me the basics of how to create a Ruby Gem (aka a Ruby package) for Ray. After I explained how Ray works internally, he coded up the foundation of the package. You'll find the code in this repo on GitHub.

You can watch our entire live code session here:

Live coding new Ray features

Feb 11th 2021

In this stream, I live coded a neat little feature for Ray. We're going to create a proxy class to record calls and perform them later.

A mail driver to quickly preview mail in Laravel apps original

Jan 28th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Using our laravel-mail-preview package, you can quickly display mails that are sent by your Laravel application in your browser.

Today, we've released v5 of the package. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

Simplifying service providers in Laravel packages original

Jan 25th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

In almost every Laravel package, there is a ServiceProvider class responsible for registering bindings package resources such as config files, views, migrations, ...

While preparing a workshop that I gave on package development, I watched some videos of our own Laravel package training video course again. While watching the videos on using the service provider again, I had the idea to simplify how resources can be registered.

Meanwhile, I've fleshed out the idea and release it as a new package called laravel-package-tools. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.

A pragmatic introduction to event sourcing

Jan 21st 2021

Frank De Jonge recently give a very nice introdution to event sourcing. Here's the recording

If you want to know more about event sourcing, you'll be happy to know that my team is creating a course on the subject. Subscribe to get notified when we launch it.

Introducing Ray: a debugging tool for pragmatic developers original

Jan 7th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 16 minute read

I'm proud to announce the immediate release of Ray, a desktop app that vastly improves your debugging experience. Ray is a dedicated window to send dumped values to. It has a lot of features that help you find and fix bugs faster.

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Ray is available for macOS, Windows and Linux.

In this blog post, I'd like to share why and how we've built Ray. If you just want to know what Ray is, head to the Ray homepage.

A recap of 2020 original

Dec 21st 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 35 minute read

What a year this has been. I guess that in January, nobody suspected that we'd got ourselves a worldwide pandemic on our hands.

For many people, 2020 has been a pretty rough year. While the pandemic also impacted me, I think that the problems I have only exist in my head. Nobody around me had health or financial troubles, and I also don't have any complaints on those fronts. That makes me a very lucky man.

In this blog post, I'd like to reflect on the things I did in 2020.

Triaging feedback on GitHub using issues and discussion original

Dec 9th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Yesterday, GitHub launched discussions as a public beta. We've been using the feature for a couple months. In this blogpost, I'd like to share how we will use discussions for our repos.

A better way to work with a backtrace in PHP original

Nov 24th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

To get the backtrace in PHP, you can use the debug_backtrace function. By default, it can be hard to work with. Using our newly released spatie/backtrace package, this becomes much simpler.

Let's dive in!

Media Library Pro makes uploading files to a Laravel app a breeze original

Nov 12th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 14 minute read

I'm proud to announce that Media Library Pro is now available. Media Library Pro is an add-on package for our free Media Library base package. It contains a set of Blade, Vue and React components that make it easy to upload files to media library and to manage files inside of a media library collection.

In this blog post, I'd like to introduce Media Library Pro to you.

Store strongly typed settings in a Laravel app original

Nov 9th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

We have released a new package, called spatie/laravel-settings, that allows you to strongly type settings in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.

Encrypting and signing data using private/public keys in PHP original

Nov 9th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

For a project, I needed to make sure that a particular piece of data actually came from a specific source. There are already many packages that allow you to do this, but most are not fun or easy to use. That's why we created a new package called spatie/crypto to do this.

Learn all new PHP 8 features by watching this free video course original

Nov 6th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Together with my colleague Brent, I've created Front Line PHP, a book and video course on building modern applications with PHP 8. You can purchase the book here.

The video course is entirely free. Head over to our website to see videos on all new major PHP 8 features.

spatie/once v3 has been released, now uses a PHP 8 WeakMap original

Nov 3rd 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

I've just released a new major version of the spatie/once package. This version uses the WeakMap class which is introduced in PHP 8. In this short post I'd like explain why this change was made.

The best PRs we got in October original

Nov 2nd 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

At Spatie, we want to stimulate contributing to our open source stuff. That's why we said that we'd give away some of our paid products for free to authors of the best PRs we got in October. In a way, it's our own small version of Hacktoberfest.

In this blog post, I'd like to announce the winners.

The problems with traditional form uploads original

Oct 30th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

When handling uploads, a traditional input type of file has some downsides. In this streaming session I did yesterday, I explain those problems and share how they can be fixed using the upcoming Media Library Pro.

Casting JSON Columns to Value Objects with Laravel

Oct 23rd 2020 – jessarcher.com

Jess has created a cool laravel-castable-data-transfer-object package. In this blog post she explains in great details how it works.

Introducing Laravel Backup Server original

Oct 22nd 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 8 minute read

I'm proud to announce the release of our newest package Laravel Backup Server. This paid package can backup several servers at once. When a backup contains files also present in a previous backup, deduplication using hard links will be performed. Even though you will see full backups in the…

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