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Interesting links

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🚀 Laravel CSP v3 has been released, now supports presets
We just tagged & released a new major version of spatie/laravel-csp, a package to manage your Laravel app's content security policy. The development goal for version 3 was to reduce the boilerplate of configuring a policy for common services like Google Tag Manager, Fathom Analytics, Adobe Fonts…

PHP Ecosystem Deep Dive: The Code Quality Landscape
Some very cool numbers on the PHP ecosystem, gathered by Jean-François Lépin.

Sevalla – Hosting as You Imagine (sponsored link)
Sevalla streamlines your deployment journey with a trio of powerful managed solutions: app hosting, managed database hosting, and static site hosting. Leveraging the robust infrastructures of GCP and Cloudflare alongside the scalability of Kubernetes, we deliver effortless deployments without compromising on power.

API design note: Beware of adding an “Other” enum value
Beware of "Other"!

Discovering PHP's yield Keyword After 10 Years
An article explaining PHP's yield keyword and how it can be use in place of return to easily build iterators.

Real-Time Updates with Client-Side Visits in Inertia 2.0 - No Server Overload!
Learn how you can update an Inertia.js page in real-time using client-side visits—without overloading your server, even with many users online. Laravel Echo, Laravel Reverb, and a new Inertia v2 feature make it simple and efficient.

10 Efficient (and Fun) Ways to Seed Your Database
This article shares 10 efficient and fun ways to seed your database, from classic PHP arrays to importing CSVs and using AI to generate random, realistic data.

Bulletproofing Inertia: How I maximize Type Safety in Laravel Monoliths
Here's how you can use our Laravel Data package.

Build UI's that don't suck
Christmas came very early! Adam Wathan published a new free course.

Seeing Red, or Maybe Green? How Tailwind Helps Colourblind Designers
It may only be a side effect of its colour palette and class naming conventions, but as a colourblind developer, Tailwind has made it SO EASY to design with sensible colours - a superpower I've been missing my whole life

Community links

In this section you'll find links submitted by others. Let me know if you did write or stumbled across a blog post, tutorial or video that might be interesting to appear in this section

How to Build a Laravel Dashboard (In No Time) using Backpack (submitted by Karan Datwani)

How to Filter Profanity in Laravel with Squeaky (submitted by Ash Allen)

Squeaky - A Laravel Validation Rule for Profanity (submitted by Jon Purvis)

MetaStorm PHPStorm Plugin. Config Architecture (submitted by Dmitrii Derepko)

Laravel Zero Downtime Deployment Script (submitted by Zacharias Creutznacher)

cpx exec - Scratch File Runner (submitted by Liam Hammett)

Old posts

Here are a couple of links from a while ago!

Why we use Inertia with Laravel in 2024

Migrating from MySQL to Postgres using Laravel's query builder

Adding wire:navigate to Markdown links

Embed Livewire Components Using Wire Extender

Adding text to an image using PHP and GD

How to use GitHub Actions build matrix to deploy artifacts to multiple servers

My Reusable GitHub Actions Workflows

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