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

DevToys for Mac

Feb 11th 2022 – github.com

Here's a free nifty little Mac app that can do a whole bunch of tasks: formatting JSON, encode URLs, generate UUIDS.

React Hooks for Beginners: Managing State

Feb 11th 2022 – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

What's all the fuss about React hooks? In our latest blog post, we share the basics of managing state with hooks in a React app.

Automate keeping your environment files in sync.

Feb 11th 2022 – github.com

How many times have you onboarded a new dev onto your team, only to have to spend ages debugging with them because your project's .env.example file is wildly outdated?

Here's a package that can help with that!

A package to automatically discover routes in a Laravel app original

Feb 9th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called spatie/laravel-route-discovery. This package can be used to automatically discover and register routes by looking at your controllers and views. Of course, you can also still register routes like you're used to in a routes file.

In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about this package.

What's new in Laravel 9

Feb 8th 2022

In this video, Jeffrey Way of Laracasts shares all the cool new stuff in Laravel 9.

The Laracon Summer 2021 videos have been released.

Feb 7th 2022

Last year, Laracon held another online edition in the summer. All of the videos are now publicly viewable. You'll find them in this playlist on YouTube.

I had the honour of doing a short talk on snapshot testing in PHP, which you can watch below.

Modelling Tetris in PHP

Feb 4th 2022

In a few lenghty sessions on YouTube, you can watch Shawn McCool build Tetris using PHP

How does Treblle scale on AWS without breaking the bank?

Feb 3rd 2022 – treblle.com

Here's how Treblle, a large Laravel app, manages to keep their AWS costs low.

Geeking Out Over PHP

Feb 3rd 2022

I was recently interviewed on my journey in PHP by the good folks at Kong. During this session you'll also see me demoing Ray.

10 lessons in productivity and brainstorming from The Beatles

Feb 2nd 2022 – medium.com

As a big Beatles fan, I enjoyed this blog post very much. I often think there are a lot of similarities between programming and making music.

Speeding up array_merge()

Feb 2nd 2022 – www.exakat.io

Here's why you should be carefull with array_merge in loops.

Laravel Worldwide meetup: Building CLI apps with Termwind & What's new in Inertia

Feb 2nd 2022

On this edition of the meetup, Francisco Madeira talks about creating beautiful CLI apps with Termwind. Claudio Dekker shows what's new in Inertia.

Using Ray in WordPress Development: Callers and Stack Traces

Jan 27th 2022 – tommcfarlin.com

Here's a cool post by Tom McFarlin how you can use Ray in WordPress to easily see a the callers of a function. This doesn't only work in WordPress but any Laravel and PHP app.

How I Got Pwned by My Cloud Costs

Jan 27th 2022 – www.troyhunt.com

Troy Hunt recently got a very high bill for his severless hosting. In this post, he share why the bill was so high, and how he's avoiding this for future bills.