I'm proud to announce that Steve Bauman and our team at Spatie have released a new tool called spatie/globay-ray. When installed, you'll be able to use dd, dump and ray functions in any PHP file on your system.
This is an amazing documentary that shows the origins of Laravel, and it's 12 year journey. I'm honoured being a part of this.
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Laravel 9 is fresh out the door, and it contains a small contribution of mine: a new callOnce method for database seeders.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Like ‘Web 2.0’, ‘web3’ is a marketing term. There is no versioning system for the web.
Read more [hiddedevries.nl]
Event-driven systems come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. The obvious commonality is; they all use events to communicate information. These events come in many shapes and sizes, and determining what goes into an event has an immense impact on the design of your system.
Read more [blog.frankdejonge.nl]
In this stream on YouTube, Francisco Madeira, co-creator of Termwind, guides me through the source code of his amazing package to style content on the CLI
Here's a handy CLI tool to check if your domain resolves to the expected IP address worldwide.
Read more [dug.unfrl.com]
I'm proud to share that our team has launched a new CLI tool called GitHub Actions Watcher.
– devonmather.dev - submitted by Devon Mather
Let's explore the option of firing events on model scopes to add some glue between our feature tests and our unit tests.
Read more [devonmather.dev]
Last week, Caleb tweeted about a nifty function called invade - that he had made to easily work with private properties and methods.
😈 Whatcha think of my new favorite helper method?
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) February 11, 2022
That property/method protected or private? No problemoooo 🔓 pic.twitter.com/HqMXKKpRsJ
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.
Here's a free nifty little Mac app that can do a whole bunch of tasks: formatting JSON, encode URLs, generate UUIDS.
Read more [github.com]
– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
What's all the fuss about React hooks? In our latest blog post, we share the basics of managing state with hooks in a React app.
Read more [tighten.com]
How many times have you onboarded a new dev onto your team, only to have to spend ages debugging with them because your project's .env.example file is wildly outdated?
Here's a package that can help with that!
Read more [github.com]
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.
In this video, Jeffrey Way of Laracasts shares all the cool new stuff in Laravel 9.
Last year, Laracon held another online edition in the summer. All of the videos are now publicly viewable. You'll find them in this playlist on YouTube.
I had the honour of doing a short talk on snapshot testing in PHP, which you can watch below.
In a few lenghty sessions on YouTube, you can watch Shawn McCool build Tetris using PHP
Here's how Treblle, a large Laravel app, manages to keep their AWS costs low.
Read more [treblle.com]
I was recently interviewed on my journey in PHP by the good folks at Kong. During this session you'll also see me demoing Ray.
