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Matt Allan took a deep dive learning about environment variables.

Laravel, Symfony, and other modern PHP frameworks use environment variables to store security credentials and configuration that changes from one machine to the next. ... Let’s break down what environment variables are, how they work, and how to correctly use them in your code.

Read more [mattallan.me]

How to test something you are pulling OUT of Storage.

Typically Laravel Storage testing is comprised of asserting that you put something IN Storage. If you happen to be pulling something down from a Storage disk and doing some processing on it, this has been helpful. pic.twitter.com/VjSqo914US

— Jake Bennett (@JacobBennett) March 19, 2019

Anna Filina explains the handy platform option you can use in composer.json. It's a good idea to just use this in all of your projects.

Say you run the latest PHP version on your machine, but the server runs PHP 5.5. This means that when you decide to add a Composer package, it might propose a version that may not be installable on the server. The solution is surprisingly easy. You can instruct Composer to see the PHP version of your choosing.

Read more [afilina.com]

A while ago Povilas Korop, creator of and writer at LaravelDaily, shared some interesting numbers on his blog.

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Over at the Tighten blog, Chris Trombley published a new post on how to use data providers in PHPUnit.

PHPUnit gives us a way to consolidate this common logic while varying our setup data, without losing the benefit of dedicated, smaller test methods. In this post, we'll explore PHPUnit's data providers. While data providers are available in any PHPUnit test suite, let's look at how they can help us tidy up our tests in a Laravel application.

Read more [tighten.co]

I fully agree with Troy Hunt here.

So in summary, everyone clicks through cookie warnings anyway, if you read them you either can't understand what they're saying or the configuration of privacy settings is a nightmare, depending on where you are in the world you either don't get privacy or you don't get UX hell, if you understand the privacy risks then it's easy to open links incognito or use an ad blocker, you can still be tracked anyway and finally, the whole thing is just conditioning people to make bad security choices.

Read more [www.troyhunt.com]

Jonathan Reinink is creating a library that'll make it easy to create server-driven single-page apps. Super cool idea!

I wanted to blend the best parts of classic server-side apps (routing, controllers, and ORM database access) with the best parts of single-page apps (JavaScript rendering and no full page reloads). Or, at least the best parts as I see them. ?

That journey has led me to a pretty interesting new pattern, which this article explains in detail. In short, I've created a Turbolinks inspired library that makes it super easy to create server-driven single-page apps. I am calling this library Inertia.js.

Read more [reinink.ca]

Exciting times in PHP land. Nikita Popov, Levi Morrison and Bob Weinand have officially proposed a concrete implementation for arrow functions.

Anonymous functions in PHP can be quite verbose, even when they only perform a simple operation. Partly this is due to a large amount of syntactic boilerplate, and party due to the need to manually import used variables. This makes code using simple closures hard to read and understand. This RFC proposes a more concise syntax for this pattern. ... Short closures are critically overdue, and at some point we'll have to make a compromise here, rather than shelving the topic for another few years.

Let's hope this one gets accepted!

Read more [wiki.php.net]

In an impressive blog post on his blog, React lead developer Dan Abramov, explains how React works on the hood.

This is a deep dive — THIS IS NOT a beginner-friendly post. In this post, I’m describing most of the React programming model from first principles. I don’t explain how to use it — just how it works. It’s aimed at experienced programmers and folks working on other UI libraries who asked about some tradeoffs chosen in React. I hope you’ll find it useful!

React as a UI Runtime

Read more [overreacted.io]

Our team at Spatie released new package called laravel-queuable-action. On his blog, my colleague Brent explains why we created it and how you can use it.

By introducing the concept of actions, we're able to separate responsibilities between classes better: jobs are used for data serialisation and executing tasks asynchronously; but they are not concerned with business logic anymore.

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Read more [stitcher.io]

In the first blogpost on his new blog, Mathias Hansen, co-creator of geocod.io, walks us through how he customized the look of macOS. ChunkWM seems particularly interesting.

ChunkWM neatly arranges all of the windows on my screen. skhd which me to define global hotkeys to control ChunkWM. Pecan (built on Übersicht) renders the neat status bar that you see at the top of the screen

Read more [www.codemonkey.io]

For the past few years, we've been using the laracasts/flash package to flash messages in all projects. In case you don't know: a flash message is a message that is being passed from a request to only the next request. The Laracasts package does its job pretty well. It has support for multiple flash messages, overlay messages. It comes with bootstrap styling out of the box and a few messaging levels preconfigured.

We've noticed that in our projects we only use a tiny bit of functionality from the laracasts/flash. That's why we whipped up our own lightweight package called spatie/laravel-flash. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce it to you.

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lol what a great definition of 'eventual consistency' pic.twitter.com/dUy6xq0UrW

— your friend myk (@mykola) March 1, 2019

? Testing simple S3 uploads with randomized file names in Laravel? Use `Storage::fake` and real-time Facades. Handled. pic.twitter.com/LIBfHbLQxD

— HEMPHILL (@davidhemphill) March 12, 2019

One of the good things that GDPR brought us was the right to data portability. Shortly put, this means that an app should be able to export all data that it has for a user.

Because we have multiple apps at Spatie that need to create such an export, we decided to extract our solution to a package called laravel-personal-data-export. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.

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#Laravel tip of the day: if you want to find out which of your composer.json packages have released newer versions, just run "composer outdated". You will get a full list with all information. pic.twitter.com/2FOw39TBr4

— Laravel Daily (@DailyLaravel) March 6, 2019

Here's an interesting approach to work with env variables proposed by Marijn Huizendveld

Frameworks offer tools to parameterize environments in a variety of ways. But because of this configuration files of projects tend to get messy once projects are taken into production. Specifying purpose of the parameter within the name can help identify unneeded configurations. Making configuration explicit within the application layer can be even more helpful. Doing so eases refactoring and provides potential to improve the overall developer experience.

Read more [marijn.huizendveld.com]

React lead Dan Abramov breaks down the statement "function components capture the rendered values". To me hooks seem like a very cool feature that'll make your react components much more easier to write.

Read more [overreacted.io]

Povilas Korop explains how to use a raw groupBy in Laravel. Cool!

Read more [laraveldaily.com]

One great way to keep your @laravelphp test factories clean is by creating custom faker providers that you can use to create custom fake data, whenever you need to fake something that the built-in faker does not yet support. pic.twitter.com/kwwuevuUf9

— Marcel Pociot (@marcelpociot) March 5, 2019