Exploring the browser rendering process
Here's everything what a browser does to display the content of an URL.
Read more [abhisaha.com]
Why Your Laravel Relationship Returns an Integer (and How to Fix It)
– infinitypaul.medium.com - submitted by Paul Edward
Sometimes, no matter how senior you are, little issues like this can humble you. I recently faced a confusing issue where I was expecting a relationship to give me a User object, but instead, it just gave me a number! After two days of scratching my head, I finally figured out what went wrong.
Read more [infinitypaul.medium.com]
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Access Route Model-Bound Models in Laravel Form Requests with "#[RouteParameter]"
– ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen
Read about the #[RouteParameter] PHP attribute that you can use in Laravel to access route model-bound models in your form request classes. The article covers how to use the attribute and the problem it solves.
Read more [ashallendesign.co.uk]
Mixing up our styling recipe for Ray v3
– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
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The polyglot stack — PHP & GoLang
A polyglot architecture combines PHP and GoLang to leverage their strengths. PHP enables rapid development, while Go optimizes resource utilization.
Read more [themsaid.com]
What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres
Postgres has many nuances and best practices that are important to understand.
Read more [challahscript.com]
Dynamically build Mail, DB, and Cache configurations in Laravel
Laravel’s new build() methods allow dynamic configuration of mail, database, and cache settings.
Read more [amitmerchant.com]
Laravel Custom Query Builders Over Scopes
While scopes are useful for simple queries, custom query builders are preferred for complex or frequently used queries.
Read more [blog.oussama-mater.tech]
Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system
– jvns.ca
A nice guide by Julia Evans
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What's new in PHP 8.4
PHP 8.4 was released last week. Here's what's new.
Read more [stitcher.io]
5 Ways to Extract Value from Overmocked Tests
Tomas shares his approach to get the most out of mocks, drop dead code, and make tests more valuable.
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Playtime with PHP Attributes
Attributes are a fun and powerful feature of PHP.
Read more [jump24.co.uk]
Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Data Transfer Objects
– davorminchorov.com - submitted by Davor Minchorov
Learn about data transfer objects, why they are useful and why it's better to use them over arrays.
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IPC in Electron
– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
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Accessing Databases in PhpStorm
– seankegel.com - submitted by Sean Kegel
Powerful Database Features You Didn't Know PhpStorm Had
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Using Ray with your Pest tests
– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
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The magic behind Laravel's new defer() helper
Here's how Laravel's defer() function, which was introduced a few months ago, works behind the scenes.
Read more [www.amitmerchant.com]
Embedding Blade inside of Markdown content
Here's a neat solution by Ryan Chandler
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
Here are some examples of weird timezones
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A Case For Custom Collections
– alsterholm.com - submitted by Andreas Alsterholm
A blog post explaining some benefits (and drawbacks) of using custom Eloquent collections.
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