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Application Instrumentation with Aspect Oriented Programming in PHP

Link – Apr 28th 2020 – medium.com - submitted by Vasily

A nice introduction to AOP in PHP, with a focus on performance, with a lot of benchmarks.

Creating a Tweet wall in 3 minutes using Laravel Dashboard

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

In this short video I demonstrate how you can display multiple Twitter feeds using laravel-dashboard. I will release the packages as soon as we hit 50 sponsors on GitHub.

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A first look at the laravel-dashboard package

Link – Apr 27th 2020

In this unrehearsed streaming session I show off how you can use the upcoming laravel-dashboard package to quickly build a beautiful dashboard that shows a realtime Twitter wall, a calendar tile that is fed by events coming from a Google Calendar, and a tile that displays the weather.

Combining event sourcing and stateful systems

Link – Apr 24th 2020 – stitcher.io - submitted by Brent

In this two-part series, my colleague Freek and I will discuss the architecture of a project we're working on.

Anonymous Alpine Components

Link – Apr 23rd 2020 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

If you don't need a reactive UI, Alpine.js might still find it's place in your tech stack.

Rethinking Laravel's middleware argument API

Link – Apr 22nd 2020 – timacdonald.me - submitted by Tim Mac

String concatenation is the current way we can pass arguments to Laravel middleware - but what if there was another way

📺 A walkthrough of Laravel Backup Server

Original – Apr 21st 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

In this stream (which is the first I've ever done) I'll show you what you can do with our upcoming laravel-backup-server package and how it works under the hood.

Mixing event sourcing in a traditional Laravel app

Original – Apr 20th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read

Together with my colleague Brent, I'm working on designing the architecture of a massive Laravel application. In that application, we'll have traditional parts and event sourced parts. In this blog post, I'd like to give a practical example of how we think to achieve this.

Composer 2: What's new and changed

Link – Apr 17th 2020 – php.watch

Composer version 2 will be mostly compatible with your existing workflows, while bringing some more great new features.

End-to-End Encryption in the Browser

Link – Apr 16th 2020 – blog.excalidraw.com

A nice explanation of the window.crypto functions that are available in all major browsers.

Using the spread operator in PHP 7.4

Tweet – Apr 16th 2020

Did you know that since PHP 7.4, it's possible to use the spread operator in arrays? 👨🏻‍🔬 pic.twitter.com/Wg6Ouc5OYj
— NUNO MADURO (@enunomaduro) April 10, 2020

Directly assigning view variable

Tweet – Apr 15th 2020

🔥 Applications often have the most lines of code within controller actions.

One practice to streamline your code is directly assigning view variables.

This also limits the use of temporarily variables and promotes abstractions which make the code more readable. pic.twitter.com/m0JGsybQ9k
— Jason McCreary (@gonedark) April 13, 2020

My First Golang

Link – Apr 15th 2020 – chipperci.com

Chris Fidao shares his first Golang app that went into production.

Why does cron only offer minute granularity?

Link – Apr 15th 2020 – superuser.com

I've often asked myself this question.

Query time casting in Laravel

Tweet – Apr 15th 2020 – twitter.com

🧙‍♂️ One of my favorite Laravel 7 features is query time casting. This is super handy when using a subquery to get extra "non-model" data, such as a date. By default it would be a string. This feature lets you cast it to a Carbon instance "on the fly". 👌https://t.co/Kd94iMsomA pic.twitter.com/VIzowGy3um
— Jonathan Reinink (@reinink) April 15, 2020

Using PEST in Laravel

Link – Apr 15th 2020 – nunomaduro.com

My buddy Nuno is working on an interesting project to improve the experience of writing tests.

6 Eloquent Secrets

Link – Apr 14th 2020 – laravel-news.com

At Laravel News, Stefan Bauer shared some cool Eloquent tips and tricks

📺 PhpStorm Tips with Christoph Rumpel

Link – Apr 14th 2020 – blog.jetbrains.com

Dancing artisan Christoph Rumpel released a new video series on how to make PhpStorm look pretty and get the most out of it.

A first look at laravel-backup-server

Link – Apr 14th 2020

At Spatie we have 100+ servers that we manage for our clients. The past few weeks, I've invested some time in creating a new Laravel package, called laravel-backup-server that can back them all up. In the video below you'll get a first look at the package.

A package to dump anything to the log

Original – Apr 13th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

In this post, I'd like to show you a quick demo of our new package called laravel-log-dumper.