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This post was first published on 24daysindecember.net Chances are that you've never heard of my company Spatie. We specialise in creating Laravel applications for our clients. Our team is rather small: we consist of only 6 developers and one manager. On first glance we are just a web agency like…
Martin Hujer shares some pretty good tips for working with Composer.
Although most PHP developers know how to use Composer, not all of them are using it efficiently or in a best possible way. So I decided to summarize things which are important for my everyday workflow.
The philosophy of most of the tips is "Play it safe", which means that if there are more ways how to handle something, I would use the approach which is least error-prone.
https://blog.martinhujer.cz/17-tips-for-using-composer-efficiently/
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Basecamp recently open source Stimulus, their new JS framework. It aims to make sprinkling some JavaScript on your page here an there very easy.
Stimulus is a JavaScript framework with modest ambitions. It doesn't seek to take over your entire front-end—in fact, it's not concerned with rendering HTML at all. Instead, it's designed to augment your HTML with just enough behavior to make it shine. Stimulus pairs beautifully with Turbolinks to provide a complete solution for fast, compelling applications with a minimal amount of effort.
https://github.com/stimulusjs/stimulus
DHH talks a bit on why and how they created it in this episode of the Ruby Rogues podcast.
In a post on vuejsdevelopers.com Anthony Gore explains how to get started with serverside rending with Laravel and Vue. Cool stuff!
Server-side rendering is great way to increase the perception of loading speed in your full-stack app. Users get a complete page with visible content when they load your site, as opposed to an empty page that doesn’t get populated until JavaScript runs.
One of the downsides of using Laravel as a backend for Vue.js was the inability to server render your code. Was. The release of Vue.js 2.5.0 has brought server-side rendering support to non-Node.js environments including PHP, Python, Ruby etc.
In this tutorial, I’ll take you through the set up steps for Laravel and demonstrate a simple server-rendered app. Get the code for this here on Github.
https://vuejsdevelopers.com/2017/11/06/vue-js-laravel-server-side-rendering/
My colleague Brent is currently creating a new package called spatie/async. This one will let you easily do some asynchronous parallel processing in PHP. In a new post on his blog Brent explains why we are creating the package and compares it to a few other solutions out there.
If you're into parallel PHP, you probably heard of Amp and ReactPHP. Our package aims not to compete with those two, as it only solves one tiny aspect of parallelism in PHP. We did however use both the packages to run some benchmarks against. Let's take a look at the results.
https://www.stitcher.io/blog/asynchronous-php
Dayle Rees, author of various popular books on PHP and Laravel, has recently blown new life into his efforts of creating IDE and terminal themes. He created themes for most of the popular apps out there including: PhpStorm, VS Code, Atom, iTerm2, ...
You can preview all the themes on: https://rainglow.io/
I've been using Dayle's Material Peacock for quite some time. Currently I'm digging white based themes and I'm on the GitHub theme.
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???? Sometimes you want quick on-the-fly authorization, without the hassle of registering a policy/callback at the Gate.
— Joseph Silber (@joseph_silber) December 28, 2017
Laravel's HandlesAuthorization trait is perfect for this. Simply call the `deny()` method, and Laravel will respond with a 403 HTTP response ???? pic.twitter.com/O36agH2o3u
Kaelan Cooter, software engineer at LogRocket, wrote a good post on the state of JavaScript and it's ecosystem in 2017. I'm very curious to see how WebAssembly will mature in the next year. There seems to be a lot of potential there.
A lot has happened in 2017, and it can be a bit overwhelming to think about. We all like to joke about how quickly things change in frontend engineering, and for the last few years that has probably been true.
At this risk of sounding cliché, I’m here to tell you that this time it’s different.
Frontend trends are starting to stabilize — popular libraries have largely gotten more popular instead of being disrupted by competitors — and web development is starting to look pretty awesome.
In this post, I’ll summarize some of the important things that happened this year in the frontend ecosystem with an eye toward big-picture trends.
https://blog.logrocket.com/frontend-in-2017-the-important-parts-4548d085977f
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Beautiful, organized results in PHPUnit, where have you been all my life?
— Keith Damiani (@keithdamiani) December 21, 2017
Composer-install this bad boy, add one line to phpunit.xml, and enjoy the view. ????https://t.co/JJi4tEhWWo pic.twitter.com/4pndct3iZk
Marcel Pociot, author of BotMan, used GitHub and Google BigQuery to look up some interesting numbers about the PHP repos in 2017.
It's this time of the year again - the end of the year is coming up fast, so why not step back and take a look at what we, as a PHP community, have achieved this year?
For these statistics, I used the free GitHub Archive data in combination with Google BigQuery, which lets you process 1TB of data per month free of charge.
So let's take a look at some numbers.
http://marcelpociot.de/blog/2017-12-21-a-php-year-in-review
My team is mentioned in the article too. Pretty proud of this!
As you can see, Spatie - a company doing a ton of open source projects - is on this list 16 times. Well done ???? !
In an older, but still relevant, post on Medium John Saito demonstrates the effect of different capitalizations.
Can you spot the differences with the messages above? The left side has a few more capital letters than the right side. Big O, little o. Who cares, right?
Well, if you write for an app or website, you should care. A little thing like capitalization can actually be a big deal. Capitalization affects readability, comprehension, and usability. It even impacts how people view your brand.
We’ll get to the juicy stuff in a bit, but first, let’s start with a little more background about capitalization.
https://medium.com/@jsaito/making-a-case-for-letter-case-19d09f653c98
Laravel has an excellent Collection class that has many useful operations. The class is also macroable. This means that you can add function to it at runtime by calling macro on it and passing a name and a closure. In our projects we tend to code up the same macro's over and over again. That's why…
laravel-medialibrary is a package that can help handle media in a Laravel application. It can organise your files across multiple filesystems, generate thumbnails, optimize images and much much more. Like mentioned before on this blog my team and I are currently creating a new major version, v7,…
In an absolutely fantastic post Caleb Porzio, engineer at Tighten Co., goes through his VS Code setup. He goes over his extensions, key bindings, must-have settings, ...
I’m using VS Code as my primary editor these days and am really digging it. My setup is by no means perfect, but I've made lots of little tweaks along the way that you may benefit from. I've set up these nifty categories, so feel free to jump around and try stuff out as you go, or come back later and use it as a reference.
http://calebporzio.com/my-vs-code-setup-2/
I've made the switch from PhpStorm to VS Code a couple of weeks ago and have been using it ever since. I like the speed improvements over PhpStorm, the zen feel, the xdebug experience, ... It just feels lighter (and I mean that in a good way) compared to PhpStorm.
If you want to give VS Code a shot too, go watch the free Visual Studio Code for PHP developers course on Laracasts.
laravel-medialibrary is a powerhouse package that can help handle media in a Laravel application. It can organise your files across multiple filesystems, generate thumbnails, optimize images and much much more. My team and I are hard at work creating a new major version, v7, that adds a lot of…
PHP 7.2 was released last week. Here's a nice post highlighting the most important changes. If you want to know how to install PHP 7.2 on your system, Colin O' Dell has got you covered.
PHP 7.2 has been released, bringing some great new features and security enhancements to the language such as object type hints, saner count() behavior, and much more. Here's a brief guide on how to install PHP 7.2 on several different operating systems.
https://www.colinodell.com/blog/201711/installing-php-72
Using brew on MacOS it's very easy to upgrade from PHP 7.1 to PHP 7.2. Just run these:
brew update
brew upgrade
brew unlink php71
brew install php72
Please be aware that, at the moment of writing, there isn't a stable xdebug version that works for PHP 7.2. Keep an eye on the xdebug homepage to know when a stable version drops.
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Tip: With async/await, you can run multiple async operations in parallel. How? Put the await statements on the same line! Works like promise.all. https://t.co/0aoAAvILmE#javascript pic.twitter.com/RMrXKp8D7V
— Cory House ???? (@housecor) November 13, 2017
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Using @code and #PHP ? Considering removing $ from the editor.wordSeparators setting. That way you’ll select the entire variable (including $) when double clicking on one.
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) December 6, 2017
Thanks for the tip @sebdedeyne pic.twitter.com/RGcaCd74pE
Marius Schulz created a free Egghead course where he explains how JavaScript this keyword behaves in various contexts.
JavaScript’s this keyword is a source of confusion for many new and experienced developers alike. It can be frustrating if, for some reason, this doesn’t point to the context that was intended. This course will help you understand JavaScript’s this mechanism in depth.
https://egghead.io/courses/understand-javascript-s-this-keyword-in-depth
Marcel Pociot, author of the excellent BotMan package, published a post on how he used Custom Elements for VueJS to power a widget that users can embed on their sites.
I am currently in the middle of working on a new BotMan feature - a frontend widget that you can embed into your website to make it easier to connect your website visitors with your own self-hosted chatbot solution. The backend / PHP side is already working and leverages the BotMan web driver, which is basically just an API that you can use to interact with your chatbot.
http://marcelpociot.de/blog/2017-12-08-using-custom-vuejs-elements