🔥 This week's code tips for Laravel developers
A weekly thread 🧵
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Comments in code should be used with care. They should only be added when they add actual value to the programmer; which is why I style them in such a way that they "pop out", instead of them disappearing in the background.
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I'm reading the Laravel 9 docs from scratch and TIL you can write your route restrictions in a more expressive way:
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🔥 #Laravel the skip method in scheduler
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My Laravel tip of the day. If you're running slow tests that need to hit a third party API, you can break them out of your Features directory and put them in a dedicated test suite (e.g. External). Then you can run "phpunit --testsuite Feature", and your External tests won't run.
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A few days ago, I learned that PHP enums can use traits
It may seem like a massive anti-pattern, but it allows making enums actually awesome with this one trick 🔥
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A quick one that I always forget about -- Faker::numerify, allowing you to generate numeric data in a specific pattern 👌👏
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