Series: Micro-Simplifications Micro-Simplifications in Laravel: Pest - for a simpler life This article is part of my "Micro-Simplifications" series, you can find other articles here and and introduction about what this series is about here. Pest is a fairly new testing framework, it sits as a layer over the top of PHPUnit which the majority of people reading this are likely
Quick Thoughts Quick Thoughts: Laravel Magic Revelation Rollercoaster The last few years of my developer career have been a rollercoaster of revelations. It's been quite the experience but these are some of the main phases went through: Cautiously using Laravel magic and retaining some sense of controlYoung and naive, maybe, but this stage involved avoiding facades like the
Series: Micro-Simplifications Micro-Simplifications in Laravel: An Introduction Recently I've been trying to put my finger on this 'thing' I'm aiming for when I'm developing features and products in Laravel. This way of working that I think every engineer tries for but maybe can't quite achieve because until it's defined, at least for me, it isn't obvious. Engineering
Laravel Domain-driven module service providers I touched on service providers in my previous post about taking a "Sorta-kinda Domain-Driven Structure in Laravel" and I wanted to expand a little further on how I see the best way to use them as well as sharing some code that works as a base class for all your
Laravel Sorta-kinda Domain-Driven Structure in Laravel I'm prefacing with this that I don't enjoy strict 'patterns' when building products. I enjoy TDD but I don't adhere to it all the time, I enjoy aspects of DDD but again going all in....well it just takes all the fun out of things. I also hate theory-only solutions
