Recently we released vue-tabs-component, a simple Vue component to render a tabular interface. If you want to know more about to the component itself I suggest you head to the introductory post on it. Like with the vast majority of our open source work this package comes with tests. In this series…
Last week my company released a vue-tabs-component, a quality Vue component to easily display tabs. You can view a demo of the component here. In this post I'd like to tell you all about it. Why we created it If you're just want to know what the component does, skip to the next section. Nearly all…
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For quite some time, I've been enjoying the DevTools tips that Umar Hansa mails out weekly. I was happy to learn that Umar is also working on a video course focussing on the DevTools. Recently the first video, on image performance on the web, was released.
Check out the course here: https://moderndevtools.com/
Sebastian De Deyne wrote a cool blogpost on array destructuring in PHP. Yet another reason to stay up to date with the latest and greatest PHP version.
PHP 7.1 introduced a new syntax for the list() function. I've never really seen too much list() calls in the wild, but it enables you to write some pretty neat stuff.This post is a primer of list() and it's PHP 7.1 short notation, and an overview of some use cases I've been applying them to.
Stefan Moises compares a few popular Vue datatable components.
To "get into" Vue.js, I am going to compare different "datatable" solutions I came across and which I found promising. In the past, working with jQuery and mainly AngularJS (1 and 2) and also JAVA frameworks like Grails it was always very difficult and cumbersome to find a really good datatable, which was easy to use, stable and had all the features the projects needed.
http://www.rent-a-hero.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/vuegrid
Laravel's tinker command allows to run any code you want as if you are inside your Laravel app. But if you want to run a single line of code if can be a bit bothersome. You must start up tinker, type the code, press enter, and quit tinker. Our new spatie/laravel-artisan-dd package contains an…
Even though I'don't like Facebook as a user, their amazing contributions to open source are something to be very grateful for. Last week they presented their new work in progress: Prepack.
Prepack is a tool that optimizes JavaScript source code: Computations that can be done at compile-time instead of run-time get eliminated. Prepack replaces the global code of a JavaScript bundle with equivalent code that is a simple sequence of assignments. This gets rid of most intermediate computations and object allocations.
It's still in development, so best not use it in production environments yet.
DHH explains that there's nothing wrong with a bit a magic.
It’s always better to be explicit! That’s pretty much a programming truism. Rarely directly challenged, lest one betray the foundational tenors of Proper Programming. But challenge it we should, and head on.
https://m.signalvnoise.com/programming-with-a-love-of-the-implicit-66629bb81ee7
Joshua Bemenderfer gives a nice overview on the ways Vue components can communicate with each other.
There are several methods that can be used for inter-component communication in Vue.js. Normal props and events should be sufficient for most cases, but there are other methods available at your disposal as well.
In a new post on his blog Taylor Otwell gives a nice example on how real time facades can make code more testable.
Recently, I worked on some code that surfaced my most common use-case for Laravel 5.4’s “real-time” facades. If you’re not familiar with this feature, it allows you to use any of your application’s classes as a Laravel “facade” on-demand by prefixingFacades to the namespace when importing the class. This is not a feature that is littered throughout my code, but I find it occasionally provides a clean, testable approach to writing expressive object APIs.
https://medium.com/@taylorotwell/expressive-code-real-time-facades-41c442914291
Jordi Boggiano, co-creator of Composer / Packages, published some new stats on the usage of PHP versions. Great to see that PHP 7 overall now represents over 50%.
A quick note on methodology, because all these stats are imperfect as they just sample some subset of the PHP user base. I look in the packagist.org logs of the last month for Composer installs done by someone. Composer sends the PHP version it is running with in its User-Agent header, so I can use that to see which PHP versions people are using Composer with.
Mohammed Said, Laravel employee #1 and diver, explains how you can avoid pushing unnecessary jobs to a queue.
How many customers will reach the 10K purchase milestone? does it make sense to push a Job to queue for every single purchase while there's a huge chance that this job will just do nothing at all? IMHO this is a waste of resources, you might end up filling your queue with thousands of unnecessary jobs.It might be a good thing if we can check for that condition before queueing the listener.
http://themsaid.com/conditionally-queue-listeners-laravel-20170505/
Bobby Bouwmann, a very helpful guy, created a new free service that can generate email markdown themes for use in a Laravel application.
Paul Redmond explains how you can use Guzzle 6' middleware to add a HMAC authorization header.
I prefer to keep my dependencies as up-to-date as possible so I decided to learn Guzzle 6 and become more familiar with the middleware. The concepts are pretty straightforward and I have a few patterns that I like to use when building out middleware within my Laravel applications.
https://medium.com/@paulredmond/using-guzzle-6-middleware-in-a-laravel-application-7fbd6d966235
In a new video on his awesome Servers For Hackers site Chris Fidao explains the major differences between some popular Linux flavours.
A few week ago we released a new major version of laravel-permission. This package makes it easy to store permission and roles in the database. Our package plays nice with Laravel's Gate and has support for multiple guards.
In a new post on his blog Saqueib Ansari shows how you can create an interface to assign permissions and roles to a user using our package.
Laravel comes with Authentication and Authorization out of the box, I have implemented many role and permissions based system in the past, using laravel, it’s peace of cake. In this post, we are going to implement a fully working and extensible roles and permissions on laravel 5.4. When we finish we will have a starter kit which we can use for our any future project which needs roles and permissions based access control.
http://www.qcode.in/easy-roles-and-permissions-in-laravel-5-4
Peter O'Shaughnessy, a developer advocate for Samsung, explains that your idea on which browsers are the most popular is probably wrong.
Our traditional idea of the top five browsers may be over-simplified, outdated and skewed.Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE/Edge, Opera… It is a common idea that these are the five “major browsers”. Our familiarity with them is comforting, but it might be a skewed and outdated view. Partly from our Western bubble and partly a hangover from the days of desktop dominance. Let’s take a look at some numbers so we can better represent the reality.
https://medium.com/samsung-internet-dev/think-you-know-the-top-web-browsers-458a0a070175
Danny Van Kooten did an interesting experiment. He completely rewrote an Laravel app to a version in Go. In a post on his blog he shares some details about his project along with some benchmarks.
Earlier this year, I made an arguably bad business decision. I decided to rewrite the Laravel application powering Boxzilla in Go.No regrets though.
Just a few weeks later I was deploying the Go application. Building it was the most fun I had in months, I learned a ton and the end result is a huge improvement over the old application. Better performance, easier deployments and higher test coverage.
I don't think that less lines of code automatically means code is more readable, but I'm a big fan of ES6' arrow functions. In this article Eric Elliott dives deep into them.
I also supect that your team would become significantly more productive if you learned to embrace and favor more of the concise syntax available in ES6. While it’s true that sometimes things are easier to understand if they’re made explicit, it’s also true that as a general rule, less code is better. If less code can accomplish the same thing and communicate more, without sacrificing any meaning, it’s objectively better.
Let's hope we'll soon have array functions in PHP too.
The future of #php (hopefully) - 2 RFCs in discussion right now: "Arrow Functions" and "Pipe Operator" pic.twitter.com/LVPiIHwGrZ
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) April 19, 2017
Last year on 28th of June Dropbox deprecated v1 of their API. On the same date this year they will turn off all v1 endpoints. If you're using Flysystem, Laravel or the official PHP SDK to work with Dropbox, it's the time to update. Last week my company released a Dropbox API client and a Flysystem…