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

Extending Laravel's about command

Feb 21st 2023 – james.brooks.page

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

Rust: A Language for the Next 40 Years

Feb 21st 2023

Learn what makes the programming language Rust a unique technology, such as the memory safety guarantees that enable more people to write performant systems-level code.

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Extending PHPUnit with its new event system

Feb 21st 2023 – localheinz.com

A good intro on how to customize PHPUnit

Request Level Validation

Feb 15th 2023 – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

Did you know it's possible to use Laravel's validation tools even when you're validating a part of your request that wasn't provided by the user? In our latest post, Andrew Morgan shares four approaches to validating the "other" bits of your requests.

How to secure model ID’s in Livewire and why this is important

Feb 13th 2023 – stefrouschop.nl - submitted by Stef Rouschop

One caveat in Livewire (version 1 and 2) is that only public properties remain state between Livewire interactions. This shouldn’t be a problem, at least not if you’re aware of how a potential hacker would abuse this.

Using Laravel Sanctum to create dynamic abilities original

Feb 8th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 12 minute read

In Oh Dear, we recently added the ability to create fine-grained API tokens that are scoped by a model. Behind the scenes, it uses Laravel Sanctum to create and verify abilities.

In this blog post, I'd like to give you a peek behind the scenes and show how we set this up.

Creating an onboarding email drip campaign using Mailcoach original

Feb 6th 2023 – mailcoach.app

One way to teach your audience the features you offer is by creating a drip campaign about all the features your platform offers. Better knowledge of all features hopefully leads to better conversion rates.

Disabling Composer's script process timeout

Feb 3rd 2023 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

A quick way of disabling Composer's default script process timeout of 300 seconds (5 minutes). Easy to overlook in the docs.

Local Environment Seeders in Laravel

Feb 2nd 2023 – stefanzweifel.dev

This makes not just testing the UI of an app easier, but also makes onboarding new developers to a project simpler.

Locality of Behavior

Feb 2nd 2023 – www.eloquentarchitecture.com - submitted by John Freeman

The LoB principle dictates that the behavior of a unit of code should be as obvious as possible by looking only at that unit of code. But I think something is missing from this discussion.

Read more [www.eloquentarchitecture.com]

You might not need a repository in Laravel: 3 alternatives

Feb 1st 2023 – medium.com - submitted by Mazen Touati

We will crack the controversy of the repository pattern in Laravel. The good and the bad, and what alternatives we can use to build a maintainable codebase.

Overcoming Imposter Syndrome as a Programmer

Jan 30th 2023 – baspa.dev - submitted by Bas van Dinther

Learn about imposter syndrome, its causes and how to combat it in the field of programming.

A package to integrate HelpSpace in your Laravel app original

Jan 27th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

I'm happy to announce that we've released another new package: spatie/laravel-help-space. This one makes it easy to populate a custom sidebar in HelpSpace with the data from your Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

Writing a Static Analyser for PHP in Rust - Overview

Jan 25th 2023 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

A new series on writing a static analyser for PHP in Rust.

Intro to Terminable Middleware

Jan 23rd 2023 – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

Tighten programmer Alison shares an intro to terminable middleware in Laravel. This type of middleware does work after the HTTP response is sent to the browser. Learn when to use it, and a some gotchas.