Weekly thread #04 of 2022 | Laravel Code Tips

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🔥 Convert email addresses to full names with the help of Str::headline()

Ran into a great use-case for Str::headline() -- Generating displayable usernames from email addresses 👌

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🔥 Higher-order messages are a great way to tidy up long collection logic

Sometimes I forget about higher order collection messages in Laravel, but they're a great way to shorten and tidy up your code ✨

Here's a simplified (and not recommended) example.

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🔥 You can use useCurrent() & useCurrentOnUpdate() on timestamp fields in your migrations

🌶️ #Laravel tip: When using timestamp() columns in Laravel Migrations, append the useCurrent() & useCurrentOnUpdate() to set timestamp columns' default value to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

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🔥 Use Tailwind's color opacity modifier to change the background color and opacity in a single class

✨Did you know Tailwind CSS has a shorthand syntax for background, border, and text opacity?

🔗 https://tailwindcss.com/docs/background-color#changing-the-opacity

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🔥 The value() helper returns the passed value UNLESS it's invokable — then it first calls it

I absolutely love the little "value" helper method in @laravelphp as it allows you to create beautiful APIs with ease under the hood.

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🔥 Use Eloquent scopes to clean up complex relation queries

🔥 Eloquent scopes pair very well with complex relation queries

Scopes should also have @method annotations. They make the model more self-documenting & better supported in IDEs

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🔥 Use PostgreSQL's trigram indexes to make WHERE LIKE queries faster

⚡️ Database Tip

Every database performance guide is repeating the false statement stating WHERE LIKE '%search%' queries can't use an index. That is just not true! Most probably your database can't, but PostgreSQL implements trigram indexes which will make this really fast!

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🔥 Laravel's container can be used for resolving variadic dependencies

Since @laravelphp 8.79 it is possible to resolve variadic dependencies out of the IoC container.

This is quite useful for type-hinting and static analysis and allows us to bind a set of concrete implementations to an abstraction layer.

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🔥 You can use the date helper on the Request class to retrieve a value as a Carbon instance

💡There's a really helpful date helper on the Request class.

You can retrieve a value as a Carbon instance: