Sensitive parameters in PHP 8.2
When debugging errors, we as developers have a few tools available: an exception of a particular class, a message, a status code, and a stack trace. The stack trace is...
Jun 7th 2023
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flareapp.io
A Laravel package to quickly see which HTML is rendered by which Blade view
I'm happy to share that we have released our latest package, spatie/laravel-blade-comments.
This package can add comments to your rendered HTML output. For each Blade view that was used...
May 30th 2023
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freek.dev
Flare 2.0 is right around the corner
Flare was launched almost four years ago. In human life, that's a short time, but for an online service, that's a lifetime.
Over the years, we had quite some ideas...
May 15th 2023
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flareapp.io
Changing your larger-than-average MySQL table
We're still working on our redesign and are close to release. Today we started tackling an issue where the performance of the error page was too slow for us. In...
May 8th 2023
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flareapp.io
You might not need `useRef` for that
According to the React maintainers, React developers reach for the useEffect hook too quickly. It is far from the only hook with many naive usages. Why won't we go...
May 8th 2023
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flareapp.io
Building a better search with Monaco and amCharts
A couple of months ago we refactored a considerable part of Flare's search to better utilise ElasticSearch's amazing search capabilities. We introduced better filters with autocompletion and fuzzy matching. Using...
May 8th 2023
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flareapp.io
How we're using static analysis to improve our codebase
The initial Flare codebase was written almost two years ago. Though that's not so long ago, but PHP landscape changed drastically in that timeframe. PHP version 7.4 and 8.0 were...
May 8th 2023
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flareapp.io
Better code block highlighting on our blog and docs
If you've visited our blog or documentation in the last couple of weeks, you might've noticed things look a little different. We're now highlighting all code blocks using Shiki,...
May 8th 2023
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flareapp.io
Migrating our billing portal to the latest version of Laravel Spark
When Flare was launched, we used Laravel Spark classic to take care of all user, team and billing functionality. We recently migrated to the latest version of Laravel...
May 8th 2023
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flareapp.io
Flare's new "job" tab knows all about your failed jobs
Today we've deployed our latest set of features! This includes a new "job" tab with a ton of extra context for failed jobs:
Ignition's...
May 8th 2023
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flareapp.io