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

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Using Caddy to deploy Laravel apps with zero downtime

Link – Aug 7th 2023 – blog.eddy.management - submitted by Pascal Baljet

Caddy 2 is a popular web server written in Go. It is known for its simplicity and ease of use. It is also very easy to configure and deploy. In this tutorial, we will see how Eddy Server Management (open-source) can help you deploy Laravel apps with zero downtime.

A first look at Laravel Prompts

Link – Aug 5th 2023 – www.youtube.com - submitted by Philo

Let's take a look at Laravel Prompts! In this video, we will refactor some existing CLI commands and take them to the next level. 🔥

How we created those fancy animations on the Flare homepage

Original – Aug 4th 2023 – flareapp.io

Some fancy tricks are being used to achieve this.

Implementing social logins at Flare

Link – Jul 31st 2023 – flareapp.io

You can now log into Flare and Oh Dear using your Google or GitHub account. In this blog post, you'll see the code that powers the social login feature.

Using Postmark Rebound to improve handling of bounced emails

Original – Jul 27th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Whenever Oh Dear detects something wrong with your site, it can send you a notification. We have multiple channels available: Slack, Telegram, webhooks, and many more. The most popular channel our users use is just simple mail.

Behind the scenes, Oh Dear uses Postmark to send emails. Postmark will inform us whenever a notification mail results in a hard bounce. A hard bounce means that the mail won't be delivered. The most common reason for this is that the mailbox doesn't exist (anymore). This can occur when somebody changes jobs, and the work email address no longer exists.

Watch my Laracon US talk: Enjoying Laravel Data

Original – Jul 27th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Here's a recording of my talk that I gave Laracon US in Nashville a week ago.

Laravel Folio deep dive

Link – Jul 27th 2023 – ahmedash.dev - submitted by Ahmed Ammar

Diving into the core of Folio understanding how it works under the hood!

Handling Signals in Laravel

Link – Jul 27th 2023 – fly.io - submitted by Chris Fidao

We see how Laravel queues handle graceful restarts/stops, and how we can do the same in our own Artisan commands.

State Of Laravel Survey 2023

Link – Jul 27th 2023 – stateoflaravel.com - submitted by Tobias Petry

The emerged ecosystem around Laravel is huge and new trends are popping up all the time. This survey is an attempt to gain insight into the representation of the diverse technologies and behaviors of this outstanding community.

Building Resilient Code: Harnessing the Power of Value Objects

Link – Jul 26th 2023 – www.conroyp.com - submitted by Paul Conroy

Value objects are a great way to add safety and consistency to PHP applications, while improving readability & testability. Let's dive into what they are, what they're not (DTOs!), and how they can help us improve our code quality.

Managing production environment variables for Laravel deployments

Link – Jul 25th 2023 – flareapp.io

Here's how we handle our production secrets at Flare.

Let’s take a look at Livewire v3

Link – Jul 24th 2023 – youtu.be - submitted by Philo

Let’s dive into some of the latest new features

How to display a subscription confirmation message with CSS

Original – Jul 19th 2023 – mailcoach.app

Here's a cool think you can do using the :target selector

A first look at Filamentphp

Link – Jul 10th 2023 – fly.io - submitted by Johannes Werbrouck

In this article, I take a first look at Filament and show you how to set it up and take your first steps. You'll be amazed at how much you can get done in a short amount of time! This article is part of a series where I'll build an app that shows in what fly.io regions it has been deployed, and I'll add a neat party trick at the end. Stay tuned!

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