Start Testing in Laravel + 30 Useful Tips

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One tip about environments and configuration caching in Laravel.

I will show you a before/after practical example of queue jobs, if we pass the full object, or if we pass the exact variable values only.

How can you define your own validation rule and assign a string name to it, to use in the rule list?

I found a "trick" to identify DB queries in Laravel that take longer than X milliseconds. In that case, you can log the event, notify someone or send it as an error to your bug tracker. I will show all three things.

Based on a few questions, I've added a new lesson to my Filament course, about the repeater field.

I liked a quote I read somewhere and decided to expand on it. How to increase your chances of being promoted at a job?

I always dreaded learning about Mocking in testing assuming it would be something too complex, and I never really had the requirement of using Mocking in my Laravel tests. But now since I have a basic idea about Mocking objects, here is a simplified version of the concept in my understanding.

There's a lot that goes into running CI/CD for a Laravel application! Let's dig into the factors that go into successfully building, testing, and deploying Laravel. This will be about Chipper CI (duh), but the things we discuss here apply to CI/CD no matter where you do that.

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Laravel has recently migrated from using Laravel Mix and Webpack to Vite for the compiling of frontend dependencies and assets. In this video, I will show you how to migrate an existing project from using Laravel Mix and Webpack to Vite. The project is an existing Laravel installation with Inertiajs

In this video, we will be looking at how to setup multiple tilwind configurations in a single Laravel project. Sometimes, we may need separate tailwind configurations for our backend and separate for our frontend. In such scenario, it will be very very helpful.

Laravel 9 now defaults to using Vite instead of Laravel Mix and Webpack. Vite uses ESBuild under the hood, and is often much faster than Webpack. This is good news!

While working on the upcoming Oh Dear redesign, I noticed that list that displays all sites of a team was very slow. To display that list, a lot of queries were used.

First off, I’m defining an “anonymous user” as the user who signs in via a “guest login”. A one-tap way to create a new guest account and get in-game to try things out without pledging your email or committing a new password to memory.

If you're running a Laravel application in the 5's, have a legacy application bootstrapped inside Laravel, don't have any tests, or are staring in silent terror at just how long ago your production server's PHP version hit its end-of-life, this post is for you!

In my previous blog, I talked about how to get started with browser tests in Laravel. You will want to run those tests (and, unit/feature tests as well) on every code push, thus making sure that your code changes are working as expected, and doesn't break anything.

There are hundreds of articles on why you should write tests for your code. And I assume you have read them many times. Many developers realize the importance of writing tests but just do not get started.

If you've been working with PHP regularly, chances are you've run across an Interface, Trait, or Abstract Class. At first glance, they might appear to have a few similarities between them, and it can be hard to make out their differences and use cases.

In a previous introduction to the Rich Text Laravel package I hinted that I wanted to cover how to build a more advanced attachment handling using Spatie's Media Library package. This is the follow-up on that. We'll pick it up from where the previous article ended to keep this one short.

In order to understand what microservices are, first, we have to talk about monolith systems and their drawbacks. Imagine Amazon as a Laravel project. It is one huge git repository, and it’s made of classes like these...

Database transactions are an effective approach to ensuring data integrity. Laravel simplifies these transactions across a wide range of databases.

In this article, we'll be looking at how to authenticate a user's phone number using firebase web version 9 modular in a Laravel application. Phone numbers can be verified on Laravel using the firebase phone authentication service.

Keeping your application’s code styled consistently is important, especially when the project has multiple developers. It makes the code easier to read, which you’ll be thankful for, either when doing a code review, or having to go back and update your own code later.

Imagine you had to make a change in your database records. You have been assigned the task of updating the affected records. There is only one problem: you do not know which tables or how many records are affected. What do you do? That was an actual scenario that occurred sometime this week.