A trick to improve your class names
Sometimes it is not clear what the responsibility of a certain class is. This can be solved by adding a suffix to the class name.
May 17th 2021 freek.dev

You can now easily see if an error came from the web, CLI or queue
When an error comes in, it might be handy to know in which type of environment it was thrown. On each error card in our UI, you can now see...
May 17th 2021 flareapp.io

A package to watch for file system changes in PHP
Our team has released a new package called file-system-watcher. As the name implies, this package can watch changes in the file system and let you act on those changes.
May 12th 2021 freek.dev

A package to watch for file system changes in PHP
Our team has released a new package called file-system-watcher. As the name implies, this package can watch changes in the file system and let you act on those changes.
May 12th 2021 freek.dev

The magic of dedicated exception classes
You can make your code more readable by moving all your exception messages to dedicated classes. We using this technique in all our projects and packages.
May 10th 2021 freek.dev

How our GitHub integration works under the hood
A few weeks ago, we introduced a new integration with GitHub that makes it possible to: create a GitHub issue directly on a Flare error associate a GitHub...
May 10th 2021 flareapp.io

Dealing with expired signed URLs in Laravel
Out of the box, Laravel comes with the ability to generate "signed" URLs. These URLs have a hash in their query string that verifies that the URL was not...
May 6th 2021 freek.dev

Dealing with expired signed URLs in Laravel
Out of the box, Laravel comes with the ability to generate "signed" URLs. These URLs have a hash in their query string that verifies that the URL was not...
May 6th 2021 freek.dev

Develop faster by adding dev routes file in a Laravel app
Laravel's awesome closure based routing was probably one of the first features I fell in love with. I take it for granted now, but back in the days, such a...
May 5th 2021 freek.dev

Keep controllers clean by using form requests in Laravel
Most people use form requests solely for validation, but they can also help to keep your controllers clean. Here's how we use them in Mailcoach
May 3rd 2021 freek.dev