Ordering database queries by relationship columns in Laravel
Jonathan Reinink published another excellent blogpost on db performance.
Read more [reinink.ca]
25 Years Of PHP
To celebrate PHP's 25th birthday, JetBrains published a nice timeline that shows PHP's rich history.
Read more [www.jetbrains.com]
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Time to upgrade your monitor
Nikita Prokopov shares some good insights on why having a good monitor is important. MacOS users: your fonts will look much better with font smoothing turned off.
Read more [tonsky.me]
How We Work (at Tailwind)
Adam Wathan recently started hiring the first employees of his brand new company. On Basecamp he shared how they work.
Read more [public.3.basecamp.com]
Meetup time: discovering Laravel Workbench and Exploring Pest 0.2 original
Last week I held an online meetup. My two guests were JMac and Nuno Maduro. 00:00 Welcome 02:00 Exploring Laravel Workbench (JMac) 30:00 Introducing Pest 0.2 (Nuno Maduro) Show links Laravel Shift: https://laravelshift.com Pest: https://pestphp.com
Find your match with regex
At Full Stack Europe 2019 my colleague Alex gave an amazing talk on regex.
Debugbar vs Telescope Toolbar
Barry Vd. Heuvel, the creator of Laravel Debugbar, compares Debugbar against Telescope.
Read more [barryvdh.nl]
Don't write your own framework
My colleague Brent shares a story to illustrate why you shouldn't write your own framework.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Adding try/catch to Laravel collections original
A few weeks ago, Jmac tweeted out an excellent idea. What if we could use try and catch in a collection chain?
Collections are the jam. Yet they leave me dreaming of more.
— Jason McCreary (@gonedark) June 1, 2020
Take this block that performs some custom validation logic by leveraging a value object constructor.
Collections definitely streamline it, but what if I could also chain the exception handling… 🔥 pic.twitter.com/4jj0uFgwWb
Meanwhile, Jmac and I did a few code pairing sessions to work on a possible implementation. We've added try and catch methods to the laravel-collection-macros package.
In this blog post, I'd like to share what you can do with these methods and how they work under the hood.
Introducing Blade UI Kit
Dries Vints was a guest on my stream. He shared his newest project, called Blade UI Kit.
Avoid false positives by utilising magic values in your tests
It can be very hard to spot a false positive within a test. So how do you avoid them?
Read more [timacdonald.me]
A package to run the Laravel scheduler without relying on cron
We released a new package called spatie/laravel-cronless-schedule. It can run the Laravel scheduler (or any other command really), without relying on cron. Instead of cron, a never-ending ReactPHP loop is used.
In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
How are users finding our SaaS?
After more than 2 years of building Oh Dear, I still struggle with the most fundamental question: how are users finding our application and where should we focus our marketing efforts to maximize that?
Read more [ma.ttias.be]
Introducing new performance monitoring for your websites
We're excited to announce all Oh Dear users now have access to detailed performance metrics for all of their websites!
Read more [ohdear.app]
Who's scared of phantom types?
The usage of phantom types is a simple type level trick which can help with this in practical settings, without requiring complicated features or making your code too abstract and less readable.
Read more [marcosh.github.io]
Inline Parameters Extension for VSCode
If you’ve ever found yourself asking any of these questions and happen to use VSCode, maybe the new Inline Parameters extension will help you out!
Read more [liamhammett.com]
The Laravel package ecosystem
Packages play a big role in the Laravel scene. How big and which packages? Medium user Džuris took the data from the Packagist.org API and filtered out the Laravel packages.
Read more [medium.com]
A package to schedule Artisan commands at sub-minute frequencies original
Laravel's native scheduler allows you to schedule Artisan commands to run every minute. For a project I'm working on I needed to schedule a command to run every few seconds. I found a good solution to do this using an ReactPHP powered event loop. Because this solution could be helpful for others as well, I decided to package it up.
Using the laravel-short-schedule package, you can schedule artisan commands to run every second or even lower frequencies. In this blogpost I'd like to introduce the package.
How to clean up your local git branches
What happens to all of those local branches after the pull request has been merged and deleted on Github?
Read more [tomschlick.com]