A Laravel package to monitor the health of your application
I'm proud to announce that we've released a new package called Laravel Health. As the name implies, this package can be used to monitor the health of your Laravel...
Dec 13th 2021 • freek.dev

A bash function to run tests for both PHPUnit and Pest
I've used this little bash alias for many years to quickly run the tests inside of a project. alias p="vendor/bin/phpunit"...
Dec 5th 2021 • freek.dev

Better support for Livewire in Flare and Ignition
Livewire is quickly gaining traction in the Laravel ecosystem. It allows you to write dynamic web applications without ever even having to touch JavaScript! That's why we've decided to bring...
Nov 29th 2021 • flareapp.io

Grouping SQL errors
This post first appeared on the Flare blog. Flare gets a lot of errors every day. To keep a good overview, we try to group them as best as possible because...
Nov 28th 2021 • rubenvanassche.com

Upgrade to PHP 8.1 with Homebrew on Mac
I'm creating a four-part mini-series on YouTube about generics in PHP: what they are, how we can use them today, and what's possible in the future....
Nov 26th 2021 • stitcher.io

PHP 8.1: real-life performance benchmarks
I did a very quick performance test because I wanted to know the impact of PHP 8.1 on my real-life projects. These benchmarks were taken on my local machine, and...
Nov 25th 2021 • stitcher.io

What's new in PHP 8.1
PHP 8.1 was released on November 25, 2021. It's currently the latest PHP version. In this post, we'll go through all features, performance improvements, changes and deprecations one...
Nov 25th 2021 • stitcher.io

A conversation on the future of PHP
Earlier this week the PHP Foundation was announced. In this stream on GitHub, my buddies Christoph Rumpel, James Brooks and I discuss what we think this means for the...
Nov 24th 2021 • freek.dev

Our improved changelog workflow for packages
For years, my team and I manually updated the changelog for our 250+ packages. Recently, we've improved how we go about this. In this blog post, I'd like to...
Nov 24th 2021 • freek.dev

Eloquent findOrFail caveats
I use Model::findOrFail a lot in Laravel. Recently, I realized it’s not always the best option. findOrFail is great because it ensures you’ll end up with a model instance. No...
Nov 23rd 2021 • sebastiandedeyne.com