Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI

The release of Pest v2 is right around the corner. Pest creator Nuno Maduro and the rest of the Pest team are currently working hard improving the docs ahead of the Pest v2 release somewhere later this month.

In this blog post, I'd like to share the free videos I've created for each of the amazing features.

Why I migrated this website from Symfony to Laravel

Mar 10th 2023 – tomasvotruba.com

I'm sure Tomas is going to do some cool stuff for the Laravel community.

Announcing Duster, a Code Linter and Fixer for Laravel

Mar 10th 2023 – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

Don’t waste your team’s time fixing little code style issues... and DEFINITELY don’t ship code w/inconsistent code style! Check out our new package Duster, a powerful all-in-one code linter & fixer bundling all the best code styles for your Laravel apps!

A preview of Flare's upcoming redesign

Mar 9th 2023 – flareapp.io

My colleagues and I are hard at work making the best error tracker for Laravel even better.

Fixing nested validation in Laravel

Mar 8th 2023 – flareapp.io

My colleague Ruben explains some improvements that were made in the latest version of our popular Laravel Data package

Ray can now display the values of private properties original

Mar 3rd 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Our handy Ray debugging app gained a cool new trick: it can now display the values of private properties and results of private methods.

Strategies for making Laravel packages customizable original

Mar 3rd 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 10 minute read

While attending Laracon India, many people approached me to ask how we handle the maintenance of all our Spatie packages. One of the ways we keep maintenance burden low is by making our packages customizable. In this blog post, I'd like to cover some of our best tips to make a Laravel package easy…

Returning native types from the Laravel Request class

Mar 2nd 2023 – jamie-peters.co.uk - submitted by Jamie Peters

Have you ever been using the Laravel Request class and found yourself creating single use variables just for type casting? What if I told you there's a better way...

Improve load time performance by lazily loading background images

Mar 1st 2023 – www.conroyp.com - submitted by Paul Conroy

Background images are key to a lot of compelling site designs, but can cause performance issues as they can't take advantage of native lazy loading. How can we get the benefit of using background images, but in a performant way?

Casual Artisan Call February 2023 original

Feb 28th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Christoph and I did another casual artisan call do talk about what's been keeping us busy.

Kill Switches: Interrupting Long-Running Processes

Feb 27th 2023 – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

Have you ever heard of a “kill switch”—a device meant to disable machinery if its owner is incapacitated? Turns out you can also build kill switches into your code. Tony shares four kill switch examples for Laravel applications.

An update on the upcoming Livewire v3

Feb 27th 2023 – github.com

Caleb shared a few thoughts around the release of v3.

Log all notifications sent by your Laravel app original

Feb 26th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

We've released a new package called Laravel Notification Log. True to its name, it will log when your Laravel app sends notifications. It also contains helpful methods to determine when notifications were sent.

When to use Laravel global scopes

Feb 22nd 2023 – stefrouschop.nl - submitted by Stef Rouschop

With a proper implementation of global scopes instead of local scopes, the code and security would be greatly improved. Let me illustrate this with a simple example.

Extending Laravel's about command

Feb 21st 2023 – james.brooks.page

You can easily add new information to Laravel's new "About" command