Freek Van der Herten's blog on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript

Oh Dear is the all-in-one monitoring tool for your entire website. We monitor uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, scheduled tasks and more. You'll get a notifications for us when something's wrong. All that paired with a developer friendly API and kick-ass documentation. O, and you'll also be able to create a public status page under a minute. Start monitoring using our free trial now.

Using Blade components for layouts

Tweet – Apr 10th 2020

🔥 You can use @laravelphp’s Blade components for layouts too. Way cleaner than extending imho. pic.twitter.com/Ol29sCsOci
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) April 10, 2020

Replacing websockets with Livewire

Original – Apr 10th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 11 minute read

Up until a few days ago, the real-time UI of Oh Dear (an uptime monitoring SaaS I run) was powered with web sockets. We recently replaced this with Livewire components.

In this blog post, I'd like to explain why and how we did that.

I'm going to assume that you already know what Livewire is. If not, head over to the Livewire docs. There's even a short video course on there. In short, Livewire enables you to create dynamic UIs using server-rendered partials.

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The Beauty of Single Action Controllers

Link – Apr 10th 2020 – driesvints.com - submitted by Dries Vints

Dries Vints wrote a bost on why he uses single action controllers.

How CSRF protection, CORS and authentication work in Laravel

Link – Apr 10th 2020

Mohammed Said tweeted out a couple of very interesting videos on some of Laravel's security related features.

Testing Cashier

Link – Apr 8th 2020 – driesvints.com - submitted by Dries Vints

Here are three different ways you could test Laravel Cashier.

Using the 1-click-installer to set up Mailcoach in no time

Original – Apr 6th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 7 minute read

A couple of weeks ago, we released Mailcoach: an affordable, self-hosted solution to send out newsletters. Installing it into an existing Laravel application is quite easy if you have experience with Laravel.

We wanted to make getting started with Mailcoach easier for those without experience with Laravel or PHP. Using our a 1-click-installer on the Digital Ocean marketplace you can set up an entire Mailcoach installation in a couple of minutes.

In this blogpost I'd like to show you how you can use the installer and how we built it.

Date Ranges in Laravel

Link – Apr 2nd 2020 – medium.com - submitted by Pavol Perdik

In this article Pavol Perdik writes about the native PostgreSQL type daterange and how to easily use it in Laravel.

Some cool Laravel 7 Blade components

Original – Apr 2nd 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

One of my favourite new features of Laravel 7 are Blade components. The allow you to define custom html tags that are backed by Blade partials. In this blogpost I'd like to show you a couple very handy components.

This blogpost assumes that you already know how you can use Blade components.

How to Run a Successful Online Conference

Link – Apr 2nd 2020 – ianlandsman.com

Ian Landsman, one of the organisers behind Laracon Online, shares how he and his team have been running the succesfull online conference these past few years.

🐟 A package to execute a random artisan command

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

Aren't you tired of having to think about which artisan command to execute? The spatie/laravel-random-command package takes that pain away. It provides a random command that will pick a random command and execute it.

Make PHP lib functions like dump() or dd() globally available

Link – Apr 1st 2020 – www.sigerr.org

Julien Bourdeau explains how you can use the auto_prepend_file option of PHP.

Blade Heroicons

Link – Apr 1st 2020 – driesvints.com - submitted by Dries Vints

A package by Dries Vints to easily make use of the Heroicons built by Steve Schoger & Adam Wathan in your Laravel Blade views.

PHP reimagined

Link – Mar 25th 2020 – stitcher.io

This is what would happen to PHP if my colleague Brent's will was law.

Testing without mocking frameworks

Link – Mar 24th 2020 – blog.frankdejonge.nl

A must read by Frank de Jonghe on testing.

Building complex forms with Laravel Livewire in Oh Dear

Original – Mar 23rd 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 16 minute read

Together with my buddy Mattias Geniar, I run Oh Dear, an uptime checker service on steroids.

Unlike most uptime trackers, Oh Dear doesn't only check your homepage, but every single page of your site. When we detect a broken link or some mixed content, we send a notification. Oh, and we provide status pages, like this one from Laravel and Flare too.

In this blog post, I'd like to show you how we use Livewire to render some complex forms in the UI of Oh Dear.

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