Storing and retrieving webmentions with Firebase
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Testing your Laravel app using GitHub actions
Mattias Geniar explains how you can use GitHub actions to run the testsuite of your Laravel app.
Last year we wrote a blogpost about our setup we use for Oh Dear! with Gitlab, and how we use their pipelines for running our CI tests. Since then, we've moved back to Github since they introduced their free private repositories. In this post I'll describe how we re-configured our CI environment using Github Actions.
Read more [ma.ttias.be]
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A look at the internals of Ignition
Marcel Pociot, our teams and me have worked hard to create Ignition, the brand new error page in Laravel 6.
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of being invited to the stream of Gary Hockin where we talked about the internals of Ignation.
Let the TestCase object itself be a test double for dependencies of the unit-under-test
Regarding https://t.co/Ky9pICMocc, here's an example (not saying it makes sense to write this test, just showing how it works). pic.twitter.com/1MOFXk1H79
— Matthias Noback (@matthiasnoback) 2 oktober 2019
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Inertia.js and Livewire: a high level comparison
Seb De Deyne explains the differences and similarities between Intertia and Livewire.
I’ve seen many people compare the two, or ask if they can be used together. This post showcases their similarities and differences, and should help you understand which problems they each solve best.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
A package that adds resource links to your Laravel API resources original
At Spatie we have several projects where the UI is rendered using JavaScript (we're big fans of Inertia). The backend and routes are defined in the Laravel app. The backend sends information to the frontend using API resources.
We often add the available routes the frontend can use as links property on the resource. To avoid having to add all routes manually, my colleague Ruben released a package, called laravel-resource-links that can automatically add resource links to the API resource.
In this post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
Introducing `ddd` - a new global helper for Laravel
If you're using Ignition (and you probably are if you're on Laravel 6), you know have access to a new helper function that help you debug code.
We now give you ddd - a globally available helper function that does everything that you love about dd and sprinkles everything that Ignition has to offer on top of it.
Read more [flareapp.io]
You can group by anything
sql tips: you can group by anything pic.twitter.com/YoJVlUyghG
— ?Julia Evans? (@b0rk) 29 september 2019
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Live-Updating Status Page With Livewire
Recently status pages were added to Oh Dear!. My colleague Sebastian took care of the live updates with a few lines of JavasScript.
In a new video on his blog Livewire creator Caleb Porzio, shows how can create the same behaviour with Livewire (and without having to write JavaScript). Impressive stuff!
This sort of thing is right up my alley, but I couldn't help but think how easy it would be in Livewire. Here's is the same functionality implemented with Livewire, in three or four little code additions. No JS!
Read more [calebporzio.com]
Track successful email deliveries, clicks and opens in your Laravel PHP application with Mailgun
Yaz Jallad explains how you use Mailgun's webhooks to determine click and open rates of mails.
While building ContestKit there was a feature I wanted to allow users to know if the emails that were sent to the winners were delivered successfully. Thankfully this feature is relatively easy to add because of Mailgun's amazing API. Let's create a new Laravel application and get started.
Read more [ninjaparade.ca]
Software Architecture is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design is Underrated
Gergely Orosz argues that you should start with a simple design and try your best to keep it simple. I don't necessarily agree with everything in the post, but it's an interesting opinion nonetheless.
Software architecture best practices, enterprise architecture patterns, and formalized ways to describe systems are all tools that are useful to know of and might come in handy one day.
Read more [blog.pragmaticengineer.com]
Extracting doesn’t guarantee simplicity
Extracting doesn’t guarantee simplicity. Sometimes extracting code into another module means I’ve smeared one “conceptual module” in my brain into two physical files. Now I can’t look at the whole thing at once, and their internal wiring is more prominent than it deserves. Oops.
— Dan Abramov (@dan_abramov) September 25, 2019
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Lazy leadership
Mike Veerman points out that managers that are not making decisions are lazy.
Lazy management means not choosing. It’s only paying lip service. When we put quality first, together with security and performance and everything else, we’re not doing our job. We’re postponing the inevitable in the hope the monster goes away.
Read more [www.mikeveerman.be]
Live updating Oh Dear! status pages
Sebastian De Deyne explains how the live updating on Oh Dear status pages works.
We were originally going to use Vue for the pages, so we could make the entire view reactive so we could easily fetch and update data with AJAX or websockets. I started building the status page view, but quickly became hesitant about the decision to use Vue. It didn’t feel like the right tool for the job.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Creating a Laravel specific package
John Braun wrote a good series on how to get started with Laravel package development
Read more [johnbraun.blog]
Use human-readable intervals
? Don't use magic numbers when defining any TTL (like cache or cookies) in PHP. Use human-readable intervals instead. pic.twitter.com/ZC6S6BVMUi
— Marcel Pociot ? (@marcelpociot) September 23, 2019
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Run prettier or php-cs-fixer with GitHub Actions
Stefan Zweifel shared his GitHub action that can automatically fix code style issues using prettier and php-cs-fixer
One workflow is really like, is to run prettier and php-cs-fixer to automatically format my code and commit the fixed files back to the repository.
Read more [stefanzweifel.io]
How much JavaScript do we really need?
An interesting opinion written by my colleague Seb.
Over the years I’ve experimented with different strategies to build user interfaces. From sprinkling JavaScript over server side templates to full-blown SPAs. My conclusion up until now: we can do better.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Event store optimizations in laravel-event-sourcing original
About a year ago, we released laravel-event-projector. It focused on adding projectors, an important concept in event sourcing, to Laravel.
After the release of the package, we continually kept improving it. We added aggregates, a way to test those, a brand new section in the our documentation that explains event sourcing from scratch, and DX improvements all across the board.
We now feel confident that the package is a good starting point for getting started with event sourcing in Laravel. That's why we're renaming the package to laravel-event-sourcing.