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freek.dev Hi, welcome to the 131st freek.dev newsletter!

• Develop faster by adding dev routes file in a Laravel app

  Here's a simple trick to improve your flow while developing a Laravel app

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• PHP Versions Stats - 2021.1 Edition

  Jordi is back with another post containing interesting statistics around PHP usage.

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• A lightweight solution for running PHP code concurrently

  Using our new spatie/fork package you can easily run PHP code concurrently. We also take a look under the hood.

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• A package to watch for file system changes in PHP

  This new package can watch changes in the file system and let you act on those changes.

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• Offset vs Cursor Pagination in Laravel

  An in-depth guide on offset and cursor pagination in Laravel, and the pros and cons of each.

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• Double Dispatch

  Tony Messias explains this design pattern using a cool example.

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• 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.

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• Dealing with expired signed URLs in Laravel

  If you're using signed URLs, consider paying attention to the unhappy path as well.

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• Custom Access Tokens in Laravel Sanctum

  Thanks to Doeke Norg personal access tokens became more flexible in Sanctum. In this blog post, he explains how you might use the new functionality

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• PHP's bus factor

  PHP is a fantastic language that has seen many cool improvements over the past few years. What you may not be aware of is that only a very few people can work on the language itself.

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• 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.

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• Exploring Event Sourcing (part 2)

  In this stream my colleague Brent and I continued our conversation about the foundations of event sourcing.

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Community Links Did you write or stumbled across a blog post, tutorial or video that might be good to appear in this section? Submit it here. Understanding Laravel’s SerializesModels trait (submitted by ryancco) Specifying MySQL Index Size in Laravel (submitted by Adithya)

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From the archives Sharing PHP-CS-Fixer rules across projects and teams Attributes in PHP 8 Grandfathering in legacy Complexity Has to Live Somewhere Composer 2: Platform Check Refactoring: Demeter-Wrapping How Oh Dear identified a certificate problem at a large CDN provider New in PHP 8 Some Relatively Obscure Bash Tips Tracking Queued Job Chains in Laravel

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