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Spatie's Black Friday Deals

Original – Nov 17th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Like every year, we have some Black Friday discounts at Spatie. We made fun video about it.

Unorthodox Eloquent II

Link – Nov 17th 2023 – muhammedsari.me - submitted by Muhammed Sari

Muhammed's been working with Eloquent for over half a decade now, and it's time to share his next bag of tricks. You are guaranteed to learn something new!

Best Practices for Using PHP Enumerations

Link – Nov 16th 2023 – jeffochoa.me - submitted by Jeff

Although PHP Enumerations are meant to provide an easy and elegant solution to work with a predefined set of values, these classes are often misused, resulting in a lack of consistency due to the introduction of all sorts of methods that increase their complexity. In this article, we are going to go through some practices (both good and bad) with the goal of clarifying the understanding of these types of objects to help you build a more resilient and consistent codebase.

Leveraging CloudFlare Workers for Edge API Authentication

Link – Nov 15th 2023 – flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie

Discover how we're using Cloudflare Workers to perform API authentication on the edge to make our infrastructure more cost-effective.

Preventing Duplicate Form Submissions Using Atomic Locks

Link – Nov 14th 2023 – daryllegion.com - submitted by Daryl Legion

Duplicate form submissions or requests can be a common issue in web applications, often leading to unintended consequences. Laravel offers a straightforward solution to prevent these duplicates by using atomic locks.

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023

Link – Nov 13th 2023 – tonsky.me

No suprises here: UTF-8 is the most popular encoding for data in transfer and at rest.

Infinite Scroll with Livewire 3 and Alpine.js

Link – Nov 10th 2023 – youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef

in this video, we're transforming our load more button functionality to an infinite scroll using Alpine.js and more specifically we're using x-intersect to trigger our loadMore function.

Implementing Load More functionality with Livewire 3 in 2 minutes.

Link – Nov 8th 2023 – youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef

In this video you'll learn how to implement "load more" functionality with Livewire 3 in about 2 minutes.

Build a Quick & Easy Instant Search UI With Alpine AJAX & Laravel

Link – Nov 6th 2023 – imacrayon.com - submitted by Christian Taylor

How to easily progressively enhance an instant search component with Alpine AJAX so that it works with or without JavaScript available.

Juggling Databases When Testing With Laravel: Tackling the Lock Wait Timeout Error

Link – Nov 3rd 2023 – www.conroyp.com - submitted by Paul Conroy

Writing tests to validate behaviour in a multi-tenancy, multi-database app can be challenging. "Lock wait timeout" errors, or transactions cleaned up in one db and not another - it can be very frustrating! Fortunately, Laravel has a way to support db transactions across multiple databases.

Ensure model events are fired in your tests when using Model Observers

Link – Oct 31st 2023 – devonmather.dev - submitted by Devon Mather

We will look at a couple of common scenarios where adding a couple of lines to your tests can future-proof your application from data loss when using Model Observers.

Mailcoach gains split testing, Livewire 3 support, suppression list, and much more

Link – Oct 30th 2023 – mailcoach.app

Today, we're adding some very powerful features to both the hosted and self-hosted versions of Mailcoach: split testing (also known as A/B testing), MJML support, Livewire 3 support, suppression lists, new datables, and much more!

Why you should use spatie/laravel-data to store "settings" in your Laravel app

Link – Oct 30th 2023 – stefanzweifel.dev - submitted by Stefan Zweifel

I struggled for a long time to find a good way to represent settings in my Laravel apps. spatie/laravel-data solves this for me with strong types and Eloquent casting.

Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned

Link – Oct 16th 2023 – posthog.com

This article shares specific, actionable advice for early-stage startups building dev tools in particular.

Single-use tests

Link – Oct 13th 2023 – timacdonald.me

Another gem of a blog post by Tim MacDonald

Ray as a debugging companion in busy integration tests

Link – Oct 12th 2023 – myray.app - submitted by Spatie

How to use Ray as a debugging companion in busy integration tests

Livewire v3: Modelable, Events, and Data Sharing

Link – Oct 11th 2023 – fly.io - submitted by Kathryn Anne Tan

Share dynamic attributes between parent and child components using Livewire Modelable, and thirftily share data between separate components with client side events!

Debugging Livewire components using Ray

Link – Oct 10th 2023 – myray.app - submitted by Spatie

Debugging Livewire components using Ray

Building a Subscription Form with Laravel Volt & Mailcoach

Link – Oct 9th 2023 – mailcoach.app - submitted by Spatie

Discover how you can build a subscription form with Laravel Volt and Mailcoach.

Event Delegation: A Technique to Improve JavaScript Performance

Link – Oct 4th 2023 – blog.shahryartayeb.com - submitted by Shahryar

In this blog post, you will learn what event delegation is, how it can help you optimize your JavaScript code by reducing the number of event listeners, and how to implement it with a practical example.