Asserting valid and invalid requests in Laravel
Testing a Laravel project is one of the most pleasant experiences I've ever had: there's a clean testing API, a very powerful layer added on top of testing frameworks; all...
Oct 12th 2021 • freek.dev

PHP 8.1: new in initializers
PHP 8.1 adds a feature that might seem like a small detail, but one that I think will have a significant day-by-day impact on many people. So what's this "new...
Oct 9th 2021 • stitcher.io

Building a better search with Monaco and amCharts
At Flare, we launched a new search experience. We have a very cool search field with autocompletions (powered by the rendering engine behind VS Code), and a very smooth graph...
Sep 30th 2021 • freek.dev

Laravel Worldwide Meetup #10: A Little Bit of Lamba & Pest To Perfection
This edition of the meetup features those two excellent talks: A Little Bit of Lambda (by Aaron Francis) Pest to Perfection (by Luke Downing)
Sep 29th 2021 • freek.dev

Laravel Worldwide Meetup #10: A Little Bit of Lambda & Pest To Perfection
This edition of the meetup features those two excellent talks: A Little Bit of Lambda (by Aaron Francis) Pest to Perfection (by Luke Downing)
Sep 29th 2021 • freek.dev

How to convert a PHPUnit Testsuite to Pest
While recording videos for the Testing Laravel video course, I became a big fan of Pest, a test runner that tries to optimize the developer experience. I'm now...
Sep 27th 2021 • freek.dev

Building a simple dashboard using Tailwind
In this stream, Shruti Balasa show how powerful Tailwind is. She builds a simple dashboard layout in only a couple of minutes.
Sep 21st 2021 • freek.dev

The birth and death of a framework
This post was first released on my newsletter. Feel free to subscribe if you want to be the first to see these kinds of posts, and...
Sep 16th 2021 • stitcher.io

Strategies for decreasing the number of queries in a Laravel app
Oh Dear is all-in-one solution to monitor your site that my buddy Mattias Geniar and I have created. It can monitoring uptime, certificates, broken links, scheduled jobs, and much...
Sep 13th 2021 • freek.dev

PHP 8.1: readonly properties
Writing data transfer objects and value objects in PHP has become significantly easier over the years. Take for example a look at a DTO in PHP 5.6:
Sep 11th 2021 • stitcher.io