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In a new blogpost, Evan You, the creator of Vue, outlines the changes and new features coming to the next major release of Vue.

There are greatly improved tools that could enhance our workflow, and many new language features that could unlock simpler, more complete, and more efficient solutions to the problems Vue is trying to solve. What’s more exciting is that we are seeing ES2015 support becoming a baseline for all major evergreen browsers. Vue 3.0 aims to leverage these new language features to make Vue core smaller, faster, and more powerful.

Read more [medium.com]

Developers can now instruct browsers to control whether cookies are sent along with the request initiated by third party websites - by using the SameSite cookie attribute, which is a more practical solution than denying the sending of cookies.

Read more [www.netsparker.com]

? #LaravelTip You can override the validationData method on your custom FormRequest class if you need to modify the request data _before_ it's validated against. #laravel pic.twitter.com/GoVw93sSrD

— Glenn Kimble Jr (@GlennKimbleJr) September 8, 2018

Jake Bathman, developer at Tigthen Co, wrote a new blogpost explaining what Laravel's APP_KEY environment variable is used for.

In this post, we'll talk about what APP_KEY does and doesn't do, some common misconceptions about its relationship to user password hashing, and the simple steps to changing your APP_KEY safely without losing access to your data.

Read more [tighten.co]

Now that Laravel Nova can be installed via composer, we can run tests for Nova packages and projects on Travis CI. My friend Marcel Pociot explains how.

This is great news, as this does not only simplify updating Laravel Nova, but it also allows Nova tools/package developers to add continuous integration to their projects! But there is still a problem: we do not want to provide our Laravel Nova credentials in our open source repository. But how can we solve this?

Read more [marcelpociot.de]

In an older but still relevant blogpost, Ondřej Mirtes, the author of PHPStan, explains the difference between union types and intersection types.

One of the headlining features of PHPStan 0.9 is the introduction of intersection types. Since this is a very useful feature that helps us understand the code much better, but the terminology is largely unknown and mysterious to the PHP community, I decided to write up and compare these two kinds of compound types.

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? Writing that extra line that just has a return statement to return an object in my Vue component's data() method feels really bad every time.

(Not to mention that data() is a method, not just an object ?)

So I found a way to trim 2 lines using arrow functions ? pic.twitter.com/Qmlil4mqHD

— wetbread (@DCoulbourne) September 20, 2018

Nikola Poša did some light research on what features PHP developers are craving for to be added in PHP 8. Seems like I'm not the only one that wants arrow functions and generics.

It's been over two months since I started a research on Twitter about the things that developers would like to be added or improved in the next major PHP release. It had a surprisingly long reach, inspiring developers, prominent experts, community representatives to express their opinion through more than a hundred responses.

Read more [blog.nikolaposa.in.rs]

Limiting breeds creativity.

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#Laravel tip of the day: in Eloquent Query Builder, you can specify "as" to return any column with a different name, just like in plain SQL query. pic.twitter.com/r7xGm50lDL

— Povilas@LaravelDaily (@DailyLaravel) September 25, 2018

In a new blogpost Troy Hunt explains why you shouldn't bother buying an EV certificate anymore.

That's it - I'm calling it - extended validation certificates are dead. Sure, you can still buy them (and there are companies out there that would just love to sell them to you!), but their usefulness has now descended from "barely there" to "as good as non-existent". This change has come via a combination of factors including increasing use of mobile devices, removal of the EV visual indicator by browser vendors and as of today, removal from Safari on iOS

Read more [www.troyhunt.com]

Mahak Narayan Singh explains how Babel does it's job.

Have you ever thought how this awesome tool which you use in your daily life works under the hood? How does compilers you use in our daily life work? Do you need your own customized compilation? You should find this article beneficial then.

Read more [medium.com]

In an older but still relevant article on the Clean Coder Blog, Uncle Bob argues that the structure of your tests should not necessarly reflect the structure of your code.

The structure of the tests must not reflect the structure of the production code, because that much coupling makes the system fragile and obstructs refactoring. Rather, the structure of the tests must be independently designed so as to minimize the coupling to the production code.

Read more [blog.cleancoder.com]

Phoenix is a framework written in Elixir. It's creator, Chris McCord, showcased an impressive new feature called LiveView at ElixirConf.

LiveView is an extension of standard Phoenix views that will automatically propagate updates to the browser anytime state changes that would impact that view (using the existing Phoenix channels infrastructure). Instead of sending a state change event down the wire that you have to process in JavaScript manually, LiveView sends down an updated HTML fragment, diffs it against the current DOM state, and makes the necessary mutations for you.

Here is some more background info on LiveView: https://leveljournal.com/why-phoenix-liveview-is-a-big-deal

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TJ Miller shares a cool Travis config to tests against all versions of Laravel.

As Laravel 5.7 is now out, I needed to add support to both the package’s composer configuration and verification in CI. Previously, I only needed to verify against 5.5 and 5.6 I thought that having --prefer-lowest in the matrix would add the coverage I needed. Now that I am supporting three versions I felt that I needed a more specific way of verifying compatibility with different versions of Laravel.

Read more [blog.tjmiller.me]

? Reviewing your code for symmetry is a great way to improve readability.

To get started, check for paired naming, consistent tone, and relative complexity. From there any remaining asymmetric bits will be easy to spot.

Here's a before and after snippet from the @OhDearApp. ? pic.twitter.com/KAhzYBxzSd

— Jason McCreary (@gonedark) September 17, 2018

A while ago I ditched the custom admin of this blog in favour of Laravel Nova. As you might have noticed every blog post on murze.be has some tags. Nova ships with many form fields but a field to use tags is not included out of the box. That's why I created my own tags field and released it as…

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My colleague Brent released another awesome package called laravel-view-models. On his blog he shares some good examples and uses cases.

In essence, view models are simple classes that take some data, and transform it into something usable for the view. In this post I'll show you the basic principles of the pattern, we'll take a look at how they integrate in Laravel projects, and finally I'll show you how we use the pattern in one of Spatie's, our company, projects.

Read more [stitcher.io]

Whenever you find yourself using || or && in an if statement, consider extracting the conditions of that if statement to a dedicated method with early returns. It's more readable and it makes debugging much easier.

Example: https://t.co/hUcq29uP54

— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) September 12, 2018

Did you know that using stream contexts, you can set headers when making HTTP requests with #php's file_get_contents() function? pic.twitter.com/bBoS5bksbt

— Liam Hammett (@LiamHammett) August 24, 2018