PHP Short Functions and Scope
Ross Wintle dissected the recent RFC for auto-capturing multi-statement closures in PHP.
Read more [rosswintle.uk]
Using Laravel's parallel testing inside your package tests
Laravel recently added parallel testing to the framework using the Paratest package which runs PHPUnit in separate parallel processes. Adding support for this in your own package tests is pretty straightforward using orchestral/testbench.
Read more [www.rias.be]
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Greatly improve the readability of your code by breaking down complex conditionals original
Most developers have probably seen some complex conditionals in legacy code. In this video I show you how to refactor those.
Laravel Sidecar: Deploy & Execute Lambda Functions from Laravel
– github.com - submitted by Aaron Francis
Sidecar packages, creates, deploys, and executes Lambda functions from your Laravel application.
Read more [github.com]
No, Utility Classes Aren't the Same As Inline Styles
An excellent post on the subject by Sarah Dayan.
Read more [frontstuff.io]
Working Through A Pandemic
– tighten.co - submitted by Jamison Valenta
Tighten employees share encouragement for anyone struggling through the pandemic.
Read more [tighten.co]
A trick to improve your class names original
Sometimes it is not clear what the responsibility of a certain class is. This can be solved by adding a suffix to the class name.
Custom Access Tokens in Laravel Sanctum
Thanks to Doeke Norg personal access tokens became more flexible in Sanctum. In this blog post, he explains how you might use the new functionality
Read more [doeken.org]
A package to watch for file system changes in PHP original
Our team has released a new package called file-system-watcher. As the name implies, this package can watch changes in the file system and let you act on those changes.
Offset vs Cursor Pagination in Laravel
– www.laravel-enlightn.com - submitted by Paras Malhotra
An in-depth guide on offset and cursor pagination in Laravel, and the pros and cons of each.
Read more [www.laravel-enlightn.com]
PHP Versions Stats - 2021.1 Edition
Jordi is back with another post containing interesting statistics around PHP usage.
Read more [blog.packagist.com]
Double Dispatch
– www.tonysm.com - submitted by Tony Messias
Tony Messias explains this design pattern using a cool example.
Read more [www.tonysm.com]
The magic of dedicated exception classes original
You can make your code more readable by moving all your exception messages to dedicated classes. We using this technique in all our projects and packages.
Dealing with expired signed URLs in Laravel original
Out of the box, Laravel comes with the ability to generate "signed" URLs. These URLs have a hash in their query string that verifies that the URL was not modified.
At Flare, we use these signed URLs to add action links in mail notifications. The action links allow users to snooze and resolve errors right from the mail without having to be logged in. Pretty convenient!
My buddy Dries Vints noticed a slight drawback. He got a mail from Flare that contains these action links. A few hours after the mail arrived, he clicked one of the action links. This is what he saw.
Develop faster by adding dev routes file in a Laravel app original
Laravel's awesome closure based routing was probably one of the first features I fell in love with. I take it for granted now, but back in the days, such a simple way of adding a route felt like a glass of water in hell compared to the other frameworks.
Typically, you would only add routes that are necessary for the users of your app. Something that I have been doing for a long time is to create a routes file, called dev.php, with routes that can help with app development.
PHP's bus factor
PHP is a fantastic language that has seen many cool improvements over the past few years. What you may not be aware of is that only a very few people can work on the language itself. This is obviously not healthy and hopefully this situation will improve in the future.
Read more [blog.krakjoe.ninja]
Exploring Event Sourcing (part 2) original
In this stream my colleague Brent and I continued our conversation about the foundations of event sourcing. This time we showed a shopping cart that we've built using Laravel and event sourcing.
If you're interested in learning more about event sourcing, be sure to check out our upcoming course on using event sourcing in Laravel.
A lightweight solution for running PHP code concurrently original
Our team released a new package called spatie/fork. Using this package you can easily execute multiple pieces of code concurrently.