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Avoid false positives by utiliting magic values in your tests
In this video we look at how you can avoid false positives in your tests by making use of magic values. I'll show you some tests that seem to be passing, but in...
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Gracefully deprecating foreign keys for a polymorphic relationship
When migrating a classic foreign key constrained relationship, such as belongsTo, over to a polymorphic relationship, you've got to be very sure you've covered...
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Dedicated query builders for Eloquent models
This blog post is an in-depth walk though of a tweet I sent out a few weeks ago. You can probably get everything you need from the tweet and the comments on it,...
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Rethinking Laravel's middleware argument API
I have been using a helper trait to make working with middleware arguments feel nicer. I'm going to walk through the current way we can pass arguments to middle...
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Query scopes, meet action scopes
I just read Freek's blog post on the void return type (which you should check out), and it reminded me of this pattern I dig and thought I'd write up a quick po...
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The case of the Laravel TestCase
I saw a conversation on Twitter the other day discussing how Laravel was slowing down a test suite. I decided I wanted to dig into this and see if there was any...
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PHP be all like: that nonexistent class be cool
I was recently helping out on an open source issue where the developer was having trouble catching exceptions the library was throwing.
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Simple performance monitoring a Laravel Forge deployed application
Maintaining a performant web application is an on-going task. On launch you might have requests flying out the door at maximum speed.
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Giving collections a voice
I gave a talk on this topic at LaraconAU, 2019. It covers all the ways custom collections can improve your systems design and contains some more guidance on whe...
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Versatile response objects in Laravel
I've been tinkering with a new way of returning various response formats by introducing dedicated response objects to my Laravel web applications.
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Loading Eloquent relationship counts
It is often useful to show the number of related models a given instance has, but not actually need any specific information about the related models, just how...
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Overriding Laravel Mix during testing in 5.8
On a project I am currently working on I ran into an issue due to the global url($asset) helper function. In my feature tests I was hitting a route that used th...
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My feature test suite setup
In this post I am going to run through my setup, but by no means do I believe this is the best way of doing things. This is what I've landed on after some trial...