Pest: Run Only Tests In One File
Pest is our tool of choice when it comes to testing in PHP. It is built on top of the tried and tested PHP Unit and adds a bunch of useful helpers which improve the DX. One I use often is the...
Ensuring All Stray PHP Files Are Run Through ECS
Easy Coding Style is a really nice code-style checking tool. It combines the best of both PHP-CS-Fixer and PHP Code Sniffer, it's easy to use and has a declarative config with all kinds of useful...
Streaming Command Output To The Browser
Following on from my last post about output buffer streaming I wondered if it was possible to stream the output from a Laravel Artisan command to the browser. You might be asking "but why?"...
Go directly to the browser. Do not pass GO, do not collect $200
Recently I needed to provide a simple CSV export function which allowed users to download some dynamic data. I wanted to use PHPs inbuilt fputcsv function so I didn't have to think about...
Livewire Testing: Undefined array key "fingerprint" Error
Recently I've been using Filament CMS quite a lot. It makes use of Livewire through out and as with any new technology I've been exploring what it can do. While writing a component test I ran...
Keeping Up With Web Dev
The internet moves fast. New libraries, new tools, major updates to existing tools, security vulnerabilites etc. To keep up with this we created a #learning channel in Slack. This serves two...
Asking for help
Sometime back in the summer just gone, I got a bit stuck. I’d been running this business for something like eight years, and somehow I’d lost track of where we were going. A lot of things that...
Testing With Laravel In Maintenance Mode
It is standard in our projects to include simple routes which are used to signify if the application is alive and working. They are primarily polled by Kubernetes liveness probes. The tests are...
Customising The fallbackPlaceholder In Laravel's Fallback Route
There is a neat feature in Laravel called a Fallback Route. This is the route which will handle the request if none of the others can: Route::fallback(Controller::class); The fallback...