🔥 This week's code tips for Laravel developers
A weekly thread 🧵
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🔥 #Laravel Tip: Need to make more than one HTTP request e.g. to one or more sites? You might think about running them concurrently to improve performance. The HTTP client's 'pool' method makes this a trivial exercise.
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👨🔬 Cool MySQL hack:
🧐 If your staging env has a table that ideally doesn't have data in it (esp production data)
🕳 You can make it a BLACKHOLE table
😅 I used this to make sure a table with a list of emails to send never contains any rows. Because, you know....
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Just got schooled in a Laravel feature I was unaware of:
Tell Laravel to always send to a specific address!
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💪Power up your #Laravel requests
You can add very simple getters on the request, so: ✅You actually know what's on the request ✅You have types ✅You can do basic data transformation
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🌶️ #Laravel tip: You can select the columns to run when using the Model::all() method. No need for an additional select() method.
A tiny tip to always keep in mind 💡
#PHP #Developers
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🔥 #Laravel Tip: The task scheduler is not limited to just commands. You can configure it to dispatch jobs and even execute shell scripts at regular intervals.
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Array destructuring is probably one of my favorite things in modern PHP and I don't think I use it enough
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💡#Laravel Eloquent Tip
Laravel 8 introduced the Prunable trait. You can use it to delete old models on a scheduled basis.
You don't need to write custom commands anymore:
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🔥 Epic Laravel Tip - Did you know that you don't necessarily have to use underscores for migrations names?
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🤖🧠 Want to log errors or user activity to Discord? You can use the Slack driver to send Slack compatible webhooks to Discord!
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