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Invading private properties and methods in PHP

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Last week, Caleb tweeted about a nifty function called invade - that he had made to easily work with private properties and methods.

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 – by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read

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.

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