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This works in Laravel 5.5 because $request->validate() only returns the validated data. Beautiful.
Yeah. I had originally sent that PR. I love it. Makes for these lovely controller methods. Just look at this❗ pic.twitter.com/FlxIlJVQXN
— Joseph Silber (@joseph_silber) September 14, 2017
Colin DeCarlo, a developer at Vehikl, wrote some thoughts on why PHP has a bad reputation in some circles.
People shitting on PHP isn’t going to go away, it’s a symptom of a few things. PHP has a ridiculously flat learning curve so just about anyone can write code using it, this means a lot of amateurs and ‘get it done’ developers will choose php but won’t really ever level up their skills when it comes to software development.
https://medium.com/@colindecarlo/who-uses-php-anyway-672115ab81de
I agree with Colin on everything he writes in his post. I'm also thinking that the some of the reasons on why people don't like PHP apply to Laravel as well. In my mind Laravel is to PHP frameworks what PHP is to other programming languages. Both Laravel and PHP might not do everything by the "real programming rules", but it sure is easy to use. And when handled properly powerful and maintainable stuff can be built with it.
Because Laravel is an easy framework to get started with, it's a popular choice for newcomers. Even with almost no experience you can build an app. Some of those projects will go to production. If an experienced developer that uses another framework comes by and sees that Laravel app, it might be easy to conclude that the problem lies with Laravel, and not with the inexperience of the junior programmer who just begon his/her journey in coding.
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Most of work is done in PHPStorm. On my current project I do a lot of Vue stuff. Regularly use PHPStorm auto format feature to make the code look nice. One thing that was bothering is that by default it will use 8 characters of indentation for Vue component properties. So you get this horrible code:
<br /><template>
<!-- ? -->
<my-component
myProp="myValue"
anotherProp="anotherValue"
></my-component>
</template>
Today a golden tip by Christopher Pitt helped me find the solution. In the preferences of PHPStorm you need to set continuation indent of the html to 4 characters.
And after that the PHPStorm will reformat the code right according to our guidelines for Vue templates.
<template>
<!-- ? -->
<my-component
myProp="myValue"
anotherProp="anotherValue"
></my-component>
</template>
Steve Schoger, a well known designer in the Laravel community, wrote down some good, actionable tips to improve your typography.
When I say typography, I’m not just referring to the font selection (although that is one important factor), I am referring to the entire composition of it. In this post, I’ve compiled a list of some important elements you can consider to create beautiful typography.Let's get started!
http://www.steveschoger.com/2017/07/19/6-tips-that-will-improve-your-typography-on-your-ui/
Caleb Porzio, co-presenter of the Twenty Percent Time podcast, published a new article on the Tightenco blog. This time he guides us through a nice use case for extending Eloquent models.
Let’s explore another alternative that can be used as a stand-in for repetitive where statements and local scopes. This technique involves creating new Eloquent models that extend other models. By extending another model, you inherit the full functionality of the parent model, while retaining the ability to add custom methods, scopes, event listeners, etc. This is commonly referred to as “Single Table Inheritance,” but I prefer to just call it “Model Inheritance”.
PHP 7.2 is just around the corner. In new blogpost Martin Hujer walks us through the changes.
PHP 7.2 is planned to be released on 30th November 2017 (see the timetable). And it comes with two new security features in the core, several smaller improvements and some language legacy clean-ups. In the article, I will describe what the improvements and changes are. I read the RFCs, discussions on internals and PRs on Github, so you don't have to.
https://blog.martinhujer.cz/php-7-2-is-due-in-november-whats-new/
At beginning of the summer we released a new Vue component called vue-table-component. Our aim was to create a very easy to use Vue component to render a table with data. You can toy a little bit with the component on the demo page. Recently Seb and I worked on two cool new features which I want to…
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? My buddy @thatguychriswJS showed me that you can use the "plus equals" operator for a sort of "array merge assignment" - pretty sweet pic.twitter.com/UJEUlfSs7E
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) September 7, 2017
In a new article on his blog, Christoph Rumpel shows how you can easily set up a Facebook Messenger chatbot using the shiny new v2 of Botman Studio. Very cool stuff.
Although it seems quite easy to setup BotMan Studio and Facebook you still need to be aware of a few concepts regarding Facebook. I hope I could provide them there and this article helps you to setup your next Facebook Messenger chatbots. From here you are ready to build more and more features to your bot your own. So make sure to checkout the BotMan documentation to get a feeling of what is possible and learn new stuff.
http://christoph-rumpel.com/2017/09/build-a-facebook-chatbot-with-laravel-and-botman-studio/
Jeff Madsen wrote down a good piece that explains how mutable Carbon dates can lead to some nasty bugs. I would't mind if Chronos were to be promoted to the default datetime library in Laravel.
If you hang out on any sort of programming forums you have no doubt encountered “The Great Mutable vs. Immutable Debate”. While I’m sure you know what the words mean, if you are new to programming or don’t have a strong Computer Science background it might not be obvious to you whether this is an important concept to be concerned with, or just more “architecture astronaut” purists arguing some obscure fine point.To help you answer that for yourselves, I’m going to show you the difference between the two using two popular Php DateTime libraries — Carbon and Chronos, and then demonstrate the danger of using the mutable one of those.
https://medium.com/@codebyjeff/whats-all-this-immutable-date-stuff-anyway-72d4130af8ce
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An official toolset for testing Vue components will be released soon. In a new series Jover Morales tells you all about it.
vue-test-utils, the official VueJS testing library and based on avoriaz, is just around the corner. @EddYerburgh is indeed doing a very good job creating it. It provides all necessary tooling for making easy to write unit test in a VueJS application.Jest, on the other side, is the testing framework developed at Facebook, which makes testing a breeze, with awesome features such as:
- Almost no config by default
- Very cool interactive mode
- Run tests in parallel
- Spies, stubs and mocks out of the box
- Built in code coverage
- Snapshot testing
- Module mocking utilities
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One of the first things I do after a fresh setup. That annoyed me for the /longest/ time. pic.twitter.com/j9LvzbMQQd
— Jaggy ? (@jaggygauran) August 31, 2017
Devron Baldwin wrote down a few words on the excellent Laracon EU conference, edition 2017.
The awesome talks and the amazing people made Laracon EU 2017 an experience to remember. I’ll split this up into a few sections to talk about the non-technical and the technical talks. I found myself enjoying the non-technical talks slightly more than the technical this year.
https://medium.com/@devron/7-laracon-eu-2017-talks-and-the-people-i-met-381e55ebf898
I can't believe it' already over and am already looking forward to Laracon EU 2018.
laravel-medialibrary is probably one of our most powerful packages. It can associate files with Eloquent models. It can also generate derived images such as thumbnails. It has a very developer-friendly API to work with. Here's a quick example:…
At Spatie we've released a plethora of Laravel packages. Now that Laravel 5.5 has been released most of our packages will get a new (major) version. In this blogpost I'd like to explain how we handle new releases of the framework and what it means for our packages. Preparing for release Laravel has…
Jeff Ochoa wrote a nice walkthrough of one of Laravels lesser known functionalities: pipelines.
Basically, using laravel pipelines you can pass an object between several classes in a fluid way to perform any type of task and finally return the resulting value once all the “tasks” have been executed.
https://medium.com/@jeffochoa/understanding-laravel-pipelines-a7191f75c351
Here's a great story by Collin O'Dell, maintainer of league/commonmark amongst other things, on how he was able to extract the class definitions out of obfuscated PHP source files.
Per the framework's license, decrypting the IonCube-protected code was not allowed. This meant it was impossible to recover the original source code. However, I could require those files and execute them in PHP, which would cause those classes to become usable in code. So how does one figure out what code just got loaded & executed?
https://www.colinodell.com/blog/201708/generating-ide-stubs-ioncube-encoded-classes
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Fav piece of code for today ❤️ Partition collection method, array destructuring, catching multiple exception types... loving PHP + Laravel pic.twitter.com/jkIQkFSzhf
— Jacob Bennett (@JacobBennett) August 24, 2017
To view some real time statistics of your server you use top or htop. But there's a new new kid on the block: gtop. It looks pretty nice.
At Spatie, we're building a multi-tenant app. Seb figured out a great way to handle theme based views.
Laravel allows you register a view vendor namespace which points to a specific directory containing Blade files. This feature is intended for package development, but it's a perfect solution to our problem.By registering a namespace with the current theme's location, we can drop all the dynamic parts of our view names when we're calling them.
https://sebastiandedeyne.com/posts/2017/theme-based-views-in-laravel-using-vendor-namespaces