Laravel Daily #38: New QuickAdmin, Vue and Kittens

First public teaser-trailer for upcoming QuickAdmin SaaS version.

Last week I’ve conducted a survey, asking you guys what adminpanel solution you’re using for your projects. Time to look at the results, make some conclusions and… present to you first draft of upcoming new QuickAdmin. First thing first – survey results.

While reading Twitter feed everyday, I see more and more new people in Laravel community. At the same time there are the most active ones who deserve following and thanking for their input to the community.

So I just added a little scheduled tasks to one of my applications which was hosted on a shared environment and I realized that the task was not being executed at all.

Recently I experienced a staging server running out of memory and after researching we found a log file that was 17g! Removing the file cleared it up but it would be nice to not worry about it again.

From the early days of tedious drills to set up your development environment, things have moved way forward. We had early signs of the direction things were going in with the advent of MAMP.

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.

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Blogify is a Laravel package that enables you to quickly and easily add a blog to your Laravel app. Joren Van Hocht created this last year for his final school project and recently gave it an update to work with Laravel 5.2 and to fix issues with the installer.

What if I told you that I could create a Laravel app, secure it locally with SSL, and then share a public link with a friend on Telegram or Slack...all within a span of about twenty seconds? Yep, Laravel Valet is ridiculous.Published on May.

My team recently completed work on a dashboard that is display on the wall mounted tv in our office. It's built with Laravel and Vue. This is what it looks like (please note that the tasks in the bottom row are dummy ones).

VueJs Paginator is a simple but powerful plugin, since it gives you access on how to render the data, instead of using a predefined table. Just give it a variable where you want the returned data to be stored. Every time the user changes page, your variable will update immediately.

When starting a new project, typically we’ll begin by creating a new model, and then going into that model and defining its fillable attributes. Next, we’ll set up a migration, and again define which columns the table should hold.

Hello, Laravel Friends! We all know how to set defaults on our database table, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to make a default "prototype" of our model that woud be filled in when we called `new MyModel`?

Refactoring means to change the structure of your code without changing its behavior. It is an essential part of everyday programming and should become knee-jerk for your whole development team.

Before moving on to Codeception and PHP, we should cover the basics and start by explaining why we need testing in applications in the first place. Perhaps we could complete a project without wasting time on tests, at least this time?

At a round-table discussion with Ben Marks (of Magento fame), the developers from Class Llama mentioned that they had a gripe with the “Go to declaration” functionality in PhpStorm.

We contacted several PHP influencers and carried out a survey about the areas of PHP 7 that require improvements. We asked, “What do you think are the loopholes still left in PHP 7? Or what are the areas of improvements which should be covered in the next stable release, PHP 8?”

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