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How to render markdown with perfectly highlighted code snippets original

Jul 13th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 6 minute read

When reading technical blogpost around the web, you might have noticed that code highlighting is not always perfect.

Shiki is the code highlighter that uses the textmate parser VSCode uses under the hood. The code highlighting it provides is near perfect, even when using modern syntax. It supports 100+ languages (via our package Blade is supported too), and all VS Code themes.

I'm proud to announce that we have released three new Spatie packages that make it easy to use Shiki in your PHP projects:

shiki-php: makes it easy to call Shiki from PHP to highlight a given code snippet
commonmark-shiki-highlighter: allows commonmark to highlight all code snippets in a markdown fragment
laravel-markdown: a batteries included Laravel package that offers a Blade component to easily render Markdown with highlighted code snippets and a class to render Markdown manually.

We're already using this package to render all our documentation pages, our guidelines, and this very blog you are reading.

Design patterns for modernizing legacy code bases

Jul 9th 2021

Here's the recording of an excellent talk by Matthias Noback given at Socrates.

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12 Tips For Better Live Coding

Jul 9th 2021 – christoph-rumpel.com

Christoph shares some tips he has collected over the last years while live coding at conferences or live streaming.

Getting started with Laravel Spotlight

Jul 8th 2021 – philo.dev - submitted by Philo

Learn how to use Laravel Spotlight to supercharge your web application with an easy-to-use command palette that your users will love.

Opinion-driven design

Jul 8th 2021 – stitcher.io - submitted by Brent

Brent shares a few thoughts on open source software design

Source diving Laravel Artisan Dispatchable

Jul 8th 2021

In the second part of this stream, I'll walk you through the inner workings of our new spatie/laravel-artisan-dispatchable package.

Source diving Laravel Google Fonts

Jul 7th 2021

In the first part of this stream, my colleague Seb explains how spatie/laravel-google-fonts works under the hood.

Introducing Laravel Google Fonts

Jul 5th 2021 – sebastiandedeyne.com

Sebastian made a pretty interesting package to self host Google Fonts

PHP version stats: July, 2021

Jul 2nd 2021 – stitcher.io

Here are the update stats on PHP usage (Jordi passed the baton to my colleague Brent)

The case for partials and pipes in PHP

Jul 1st 2021 – peakd.com

PHP Contributor Larry Garfield walks us through a couple of neat ideas and RFC's for PHP he's been working on. I would very much welcome a pipe operator in PHP.

Organizing Miscellaneous Utility Functions

Jun 30th 2021 – afilina.com

Anna Filina shares how she goes about organizing small functions.

Runtime (Big O) Of Laravel's One-Of-Many Relationship

Jun 29th 2021 – lennartcb.me

In this article Lennart Carstens-Behrens explains a very impressive PR he recently submitted at the Laravel repo.

No, Utility Classes Aren't the Same As Inline Styles

Jun 26th 2021 – frontstuff.io

Sarah Dayan throughouhly explains the differences between utility classes and inline styles

Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years

Jun 26th 2021 – turriate.com

Here's a nice list of JS niceties that is available natively in modern browsers

Automatically fix PHP and JS code style problems on GitHub PRs

Jun 25th 2021 – dekker.io

Claudio Dekker runs you through the GitHub action he created to automatically handle code styling issues at Laravel

Saying Goodbye To Typo CI

Jun 25th 2021 – mikerogers.io

There's no shame in stopping a project if it turns out it isn't worthwhile to continue working on it.

How to compile PHP from Source

Jun 24th 2021 – thephp.website

Knowing how to compile PHP will open one of the few doors necessary for contributing to the PHP language. Once you get familiar with this it will be much easier for you to contribute in many ways such as running tests and uploading reports, writing new tests by yourself and bug reporting/fixing.

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