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Why Laravel Queues Are Awesome
Chris Nwamba writing on Scotch.io has a new tutorial all about Laravel Queues. His tutorial covers setting email queues with Mailtrap and includes a companion repo for quickly browsing or downloading...
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Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2016
Stack Overflow published the results from their 2016 survey. It shows JavaScript is on the rise and PHP has lost a little steam. More people use JavaScript than use any other programming language. PHP...
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Lug-Nut Driven Development
Ted Blackman has a new tutorial on what he calls “Lug-Nut Driven Development“: Think of changing a tire: you screw in the lug nuts loosely first, in a star pattern. Once you have all the lug nuts in...
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DreamFactory →
Many thanks to DreamFactory for sponsoring Laravel News this week. DreamFactory is a free open source REST API Platform for mobile, web, and IoT applications. DreamFactory instantly turns any data...
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Add Laravel Unit Tests Directly From Chrome
Today Marcel Pociot launched a new Chrome Extension that allows you to visually create acceptance tests directly from the browser. Here is a quick demo of it in action: You can find more details about...
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Laravel News Podcast #12
In this episode, we talk about the latest Laravel news including Composer updates, Github Relaxing their API limit, Laravel internals moving to Github issues. Then we talk about a few recent packages...
View ArticleOne developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of...
Chris Williams writing for The Register: Programmers were left staring at broken builds and failed installations on Tuesday after someone toppled the Jenga tower of JavaScript. To fix the internet,...
View ArticleSetup sFTP on a Forge provisioned server →
Freek Van der Herten has a new tutorial on setting up sftp on a Forge box: Most projects are hosted on their separate DigitalOcean droplets provisioned by Forge. Even the smallest droplet has a...
View Articlekik, left-pad, and npm →
NPM made an official announcement on what happened with left-pad: To Recap (tl;dr) We dropped the ball in not protecting you from a disruption caused by unrestricted unpublishing. We’re addressing this...
View ArticleHow to scale Laravel horizontally with Docker
Andrew McLagan has a new tutorial on scaling horizontally with docker. Andrew goes through setting up a Docker container and a tool called Docker Compose, a tool enables us to start multiple Docker...
View ArticlePackage for generating HTML Menus
A modern package to generate html menus: Virtually every website displays some sort of menu. Generating html menus might seem simple, but it can become complex very quickly. Not only do you have to...
View ArticleLaravel Setup Wizard
Laravel Setup Wizard is a package to help you build a web setup wizard or installer for your application. From the config file you can setup your apps requirements, folder permissions, and define the...
View ArticleMicropackages and Open Source Trust
Armin Ronacher shares his thoughts about the recent NPM left-pad issue: When “pad left” disaster stroke I had a brief look at Sentry’s dependency tree. I should probably have done that before but for...
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Live AMA with Taylor Otwell
Taylor Otwell is doing a live AMA (ask me anything) starting in about 10 minutes. If you’d like to take part you can ask your questions here. Some of the popular questions already asked include: When...
View ArticleLaravel Exception Recorder and Notifier Package
LERN (Laravel Exception Recorder and Notifier) is a package that will record exceptions into a database and will send you a notification. It currently supports notifications via Email, Pushover, Slack,...
View ArticleDrop ‘public’ not ‘var’ →
A PHP RFC vote has started to deprecate the var keyword in PHP 7.1 and remove it in PHP 8. Evert Pot argues that you should be using var not public: I’d like to offer a different opinion: I think...
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Laravel ElePHPant now available from PhpArch
php[architect] is now selling the Laravel ElePHPant plush dolls. It features the Laravel logo on one side and the PHP logo on the other. Pricing is $30 for one and bulk discounts start at orders of...
View ArticleAutomatically Create Model Factories
Laravel Test Factory Generator is a new package by Marcel Pociot that generates model factories from your existing models and database structure. Once installed it gives you a new Artisan command to...
View ArticleAdd Social Login To Laravel Applications →
Stormpath is a complete identity API with powerful authentication, authorization, and user management for any application. We’ve been improving on our Laravel Integration, and just added Facebook,...
View ArticleHas your company upgraded to PHP7 yet?
Yesterday I ran a Twitter poll to see how many have moved to PHP7. With 650 votes here are the results: Twitter poll: Is your company on PHP 7 yet? — Laravel News (@laravelnews) March 29, 2016 PHP 7...
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