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Collision v5.0 released

Link – Aug 25th 2020 – nunomaduro.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro

With Laravel 8 coming soon, Nuno just released Collision v5.0. Let's see the changes merged into this release.

How to group queued jobs using Laravel 8's new Batch class

Original – Aug 24th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 14 minute read

Laravel 8 offers a shiny new way to group multiple jobs into one batch. This will allow you to easily check how many job there are in a batch, what to total progress is and even cancel all jobs in a batch.

In this blog post, I'd like to share how we will use this feature in the upcoming v3 of Mailcoach. We'll also take a look at how batches are implemented under the hood in Laravel.

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Creating Custom Magic Variables in Alpine.js

Link – Aug 24th 2020 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

We all come across tasks that are repetitive and probably struggle to find ways of making them more re-usable in our Alpine components. Since v2.5 we can register custom magic variables that can help us out with that.

Things you didn't know you could diff in GitHub

Link – Aug 23rd 2020 – sebastiandedeyne.com

Sebastian show a few cool things you can do when comparing changes in the GitHub UI

Tools for local PHP development

Link – Aug 17th 2020 – blog.fortrabbit.com

Over at FortRabbit, Jascha Silbermann shares the different options you have for working with PHP locally.

Empathy Gives You Superpowers

Link – Aug 14th 2020

This timeless talk by Matt Stauffer given at Laracon EU 2015 is one of the very best I ever saw.

Some SQL Tricks of an Application DBA

Link – Aug 11th 2020 – hakibenita.com

Databases are the backbone of most modern systems, so taking some time to understand how they work is a good investment for any developer.

Video: building a realtime dashboard power by Laravel and Livewire

Original – Aug 9th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Earlier this year, our team released laravel-dashboard, a package that allows you to set up powerful dashboards in no time! In this talk, given at this years Laracon EU Online, I demonstrate how you can use it and how it works under the hood. Want to see more package source dives? Considering…

How to make simple Geolocation service

Link – Aug 5th 2020 – maxkostinevich.com

Max Kostinevich explains how to create your own Geolocation service using Cloudflare workers.

Legacy to Laravel: How to Modernize an Aging PHP Application

Link – Aug 4th 2020 – tighten.co - submitted by Jamison Valenta

Here's how Tighten modernizes a legacy PHP application.

Relying on the database to validate your data

Link – Jul 31st 2020 – matthiasnoback.nl

Matthias Noback shares his thoughts on when you should and when you shouldn't rely on the database to perform certain tasks

Using Blade components for handling layouts

Original – Jul 30th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Blade components are a wonderful feature of Laravel. In most examples you can see them being used for small UI elements. Did you know you can use them for layouts as well? Want to see more videos like this one? Head over to the Readable Laravel video series on our website.

My journey into event sourcing

Link – Jul 29th 2020 – stitcher.io

These past few months, my colleague Brent and I worked together on a project that uses event sourcing in a big way. On his blog, Brent shared a post mentioned a lot of interesting resources for learning and understanding event sourcing.

Customising and extending Laravel Form Requests

Original – Jul 28th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Form requests are often used for validation purposes only, but they can do a whole lot more. You can manipulate data before and after validation, and you can easily add methods of your own.

In this video I'll demonstrate all these possiblities.

Want to see more videos like this one? Head over to the Readable Laravel video series on our website.

How to clean up huge tables in Laravel with ease

Original – Jul 27th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Using our laravel-model-cleanup package, you can easily remove old unneeded records from your database. We recently released a new major version that adds support for safely cleaning out huge tables.

In this blog post, I'd like to introduce this new release of the package to you.

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