Written by Sebastian De Deyne
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on Dec. 21, 2016
Vue 2.0 introduced it's own virtual DOM implementation. At first sight, this doesn't seem to have a large effect on the way you write templates. From the docs: Under the hood, Vue compiles the templates into Virtual DOM render functions. Combined with the reactivity system, Vue is able to intellige…
Written by Sebastian De Deyne
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on May. 31, 2016
When building a website for a client that wants to be able to manage content, Laravel's language files aren't ideal since you can't edit them without diving into a bundle of text files. We recently decided to drop all the lang files in our custom CMS in favor of persisting translations in the datab…
Written by Sebastian De Deyne
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on Mar. 9, 2016
Dynamic languages allow us to pass anything as a parameter without requiring a specific type. In turn, this means we often need to handle some extra validation for the data that comes in to our objects. This is a lightweight post on handling your incoming values effectively by normalizing them as…
Written by Sebastian De Deyne
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on Feb. 4, 2016
Over the past few weeks I've been migrating our asset pipeline at Spatie from Laravel Elixir (a gulp wrapper) to webpack. Between having endless possibilities, the occasional incomplete section in the docs, and the fact that everyone has slightly different needs for their asset pipeline (which make…