Overriding vendor classes
Link – – downing.tech
Ever found yourself wanting to make a small tweak to a PHP file in a Composer dependency? Here's how to do it without forking the entire package.
Read more [downing.tech]
Oh Dear is the all-in-one monitoring tool for your entire website. We monitor uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, scheduled tasks and more. You'll get a notifications for us when something's wrong. All that paired with a developer friendly API and kick-ass documentation. O, and you'll also be able to create a public status page under a minute. Start monitoring using our free trial now.
Hosting all your PHP packages together in a monorepo
Link – – blog.logrocket.com
A monorepo helps manage the complexity of a big codebase. Here's how you can create and manage such a monorepo.
Read more [blog.logrocket.com]
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No code reviews by default
Link – – www.raycast.com
At Raycast, the dev team only requests code reviews when they think it's necessary.
Read more [www.raycast.com]
Using Ziggy with Inertia Server-Side Rendering
Link – – aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis
Aaron Francis clearly explains how you can make Ziggy work with Ineratia's shiney new SSR feature.
Read more [aaronfrancis.com]
A recap of 2021
Now that we are in the final days of 2021, let's take a look back at that stuff my team and I did in 2021.
How we improved Oh Dear in 2021
Link – – ohdear.app
Here's a recap of everything we did in 2021 to make Oh Dear the best all-in-one monitoring service.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Send Spatie a Christmas card
Link – – wishes.spatie.be
Here's something fun my colleagues Alex and Willem have created.
Read more [wishes.spatie.be]
Create a Solana dApp from scratch
Link – – lorisleiva.com
Loris Leive wrote a very comprehensive series on how to get started developing for Solana
Read more [lorisleiva.com]
Heaps explained in PHP
Link – – doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
Quick access to the highest or lowest value of a dataset.
Read more [doeken.org]
Grinding to $1,000,000 in revenue over 6 years
Link – – jasonmccreary.me
Here's the story behind JMac's efforts making Laravel Shift a success.
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
12 must-see talks if you want to become a better Laravel developer
Link – – jcergolj.me.uk
I usually don't link to these kind of lists, but this one is great. Every one of the videos mentioned is a gem.
Read more [jcergolj.me.uk]
20 years of Bram.us
Link – – www.bram.us
Bram has been running his excellent blog for 20 years now. Bram.us was the blog that inspired me to start with a blog of my own.
Highly recommend to check it every once in a while if you're into webdev (which I guess you are since you're reading this on freek.dev).
Read more [www.bram.us]
Laravel Pseudo-Daemons
Link – – aaronfrancis.com
Here's a cool technique by Aaron Francis where he uses artisan commands to create daemons.
Read more [aaronfrancis.com]
Filtering Carbon Period For Flexibility And Performance
Link – – tomerbe.co.uk
Here's a nice way to go about filtering Carbon instances
Read more [tomerbe.co.uk]
How we improved Flare in 2021
Link – – 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!
Read more [flareapp.io]
What's new in Tailwind CSS v3.0
Another impressive, feature rich release by the Tailwind team. Here's a rundown of all the new features.
Silently validating a Laravel request
Link – – invariance.dev - submitted by Nicolas Beauvais
In some cases, the Laravel validator gives out too many details. What if we want to use the power of the validator without giving anything in the response?
Read more [invariance.dev]
Fixing the dreaded "'pcre2.h' file not found" error when installing imagick
Whenever I upgrade PHP, I seem to have troubles installing imagick. This command pecl install imagick always results in an error "'pcre2.h' file not found". To fix that error, you should issue these commands: brew install pcre2 ln -s /opt/homebrew/Cellar/pcre2/10.39/include/pcre2.h…
A Laravel package to monitor the health of your application
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!
A bash function to run tests for both PHPUnit and Pest
I've used this little bash alias for many years to quickly run the tests inside of a project.
alias p="vendor/bin/phpunit"
With this alias in place, I can run the tests by typing "p" on the CLI. Nice!
For a long time, everything was great! But then, Pest appeared on the scene. It's an alternative test runner for PHP with a high focus on developer experience.