Written by Jason McCreary
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on May. 13, 2020
After working on hundreds of Laravel projects, a common regret I see is the use of inheritance. While inheritance is one of the pillars of object oriented programming, it's actually less beneficial when used alongside a framework like Laravel.One of the drawbacks is that you inject a layer of separ…
Written by Jason McCreary
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on May. 13, 2020
Over the past few years, I've paired with hundreds of developers on their Laravel projects. One of the most common regrets (technical debt) we encounter is the use of inheritance. While inheritance is one of the pillars of object oriented programming, it's actually less beneficial when used alongsi…
Written by Jason McCreary
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on Mar. 24, 2020
It was 1:28pm. I received the following notification:SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'orders' doesn't existI ignored it at first as sometimes the Shift workers drop the database connection. Then I received another. And another. And another.I went to laravelshift.com. 500.I…
Written by Jason McCreary
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on Jan. 12, 2020
Every year I set a few goals and review them at the end of the year. Last year I wrote 2018 Lookbehind, Lookahead 2019. This year I'll follow the same format. So before talking about my goals for 2020, let's look back at 2019.2019 Goals✅ Redesign BlogThis was a pretty easy one. I do this on purpos…
Written by Jason McCreary
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on Jan. 3, 2020
Middleware is another area of Laravel applications which aren't often tested.Instead, middleware is tested through another part of the application. For example, the auth middleware is tested through sending an HTTP request to a controller./** @test */public function edit_displays_form(){ $user =…
Written by murze.be
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on Dec. 9, 2019
JMac, the creator of Laravel Shift, has a few interesting ideas on how to make the framework better.Every so often a revolutionary change is required. This provides a chance to revisit goals. One of…