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Data Transfer Object v3 has been released

Original – Apr 7th 2021 by Brent Roose and Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

We've released a new major version of spatie/data-transfer-object. This package makes it easy to create objects that have a certain shape. Properties can even be validated.

🐘 Need self-validating PHP objects? Here you go!https://t.co/osPCSr0qu8

Gotta love PHP 8

Very nice work by @brendt_gd pic.twitter.com/Sn1mS7R8Sv
— Freek Van der Herten 🎆 (@freekmurze) April 2, 2021

In this post I'd like to tell you more the package.

Handling console signals in Laravel

Original – Apr 5th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 7 minute read

When you cancel a long-running artisan command with Ctrl+C, a SIGINT signal is sent by the operating system to the PHP process. You can use this signal to perform some cleanup quickly.

Symfony 5.2 introduced support for handling signals in commands.

We've released a package called spatie/laravel-signal-aware-commands that provides a substantial improvement to how you can use these signals in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

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Creating a Laravel package from scratch

Original – Apr 5th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

In this stream, you'll see me lay the foundations for the spatie/laravel-signal-aware-command package.

Improving Ignition's security

Link – Apr 2nd 2021 – flareapp.io

A few days ago, you might have received a Dependabot security warning on Ignition concerning a remote code execution vulnarablity. This post on the Flare blog explains why most people shouldn't be effected by this.

How to Unit Test a Laravel API with the Pest Framework

Link – Mar 30th 2021 – www.twilio.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro

In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at how to get started using Pest in a Laravel project. Using the test-driven approach, we’ll be building a simple to-do application that allows you to create, edit, update and delete tasks.

Why and how you should remove inactive users and teams

Original – Mar 29th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 8 minute read

There are many SaaS applications that allow potential new customers to try out the service using a trial period. Of course, not everybody will convert. After the trial period is over, some people will not use the service anymore. However, if nothing is being done about it, their email address and…

Improving Google Maps Performance on Large Datasets

Link – Mar 29th 2021 – tighten.co - submitted by Jamison Valenta

Here are some hot tips for mapping large datasets on Google Maps, without sacrificing performance.

Vite with Laravel

Link – Mar 26th 2021 – sebastiandedeyne.com

Vite is a frontend build tool like webpack. Instead of bundling development assets, Vite serves native ES modules transpiled with esbuild from the dev server. This means there’s a lot less bundling to do, and results in a very fast developer experience.

Mailcoach v4 has been released: drip campaigns, automations, mail templates and much more

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

I'm proud to announce that Mailcoach v4 has been released. Mailcoach already was a great solution to send out bulk emails affordably. With an entirely refreshed UI and new capabilities, Mailcoach now becomes a more powerful platform for all things email:

send out regular email campaigns with a provider of your choice
create drip campaigns and send automated emails based on the activity of your audience
administer and log transactional emails from your application.

We've also rewritten our extensive documentation.

In this blog post, I'd like to give you a tour of everything Mailcoach can do.

Nodes and the Visitor pattern

Link – Mar 25th 2021 – lorisleiva.com - submitted by Loris

Learn why, when and how to structure your data as a cluster of nodes and how to execute various operations on that cluster via external visitors.

Maximizing response caching in Laravel

Link – Mar 24th 2021 – samuelstancl.me

Response caching is like a progressive enhancement. It will make your app faster in some ways, and some cases, but your app must work perfectly well without it.

Laravel WorldWide Meetup #7: signing in with Laravel and how the Laracon Online website was built

Original – Mar 24th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Here's a recording of the Laravel Worldwide Meetup #7.

Miguel Piedrafita talked about the various options of signing in with Laravel. After that, Caneco shared some of the secrets behind the Laracon Online website.

Composer Security Hardening

Link – Mar 24th 2021 – php.watch - submitted by Ayesh

Security precautions Composer already has, and what you can do to improve them further.

Using a HasOne over a HasMany relationship in Laravel

Link – Mar 23rd 2021 – timacdonald.me

When you are working with a one-to-many relationship, it is sometimes the case that a particular instance on the "many" side of the relationship is flagged as unique and important to your system in some way. It can be really handy to be able to access that unique instance in a first class way from your models. This post is going to cover how you can do that without introducing any new concepts into your application.

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