Ed Johnson-Williams

@KaneJamison Hi, thanks! Hasn’t shown up got me yet anyway

@theecgaming1 @ItXBosS @taylorotwell Laravel Pail needs the PCNTL extension to PHP and that doesn't work on Windows. #pail-installation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">laravel.com/docs/11.x/logg… php.net/manual/en/pcnt…

@ItXBosS @taylorotwell Did you install pail? composer require laravel/pail

Today's Laravel release includes some slick new features. 🚀 First, the "composer run dev" command is now included in the composer.json file for all new applications. This single command starts the Artisan dev server, a queue worker, the Vite dev server, and tails your logs. 🔥

@joshcirre There's some crossover in culture there somehow that I can't put my finger on

@joshcirre Svelte and Laravel feel so similar to me in their ethos, the way they communicate (both from the maintainers and among the community), and how they try to include good first-party support for things you need (eg styling, state management in Svelte)

@northumbriana Bedale in North Yorkshire has a good one of these but a Doctor of Divinity back in 1621!

I do enjoy a good list of vicars. This is a fairly typical sequence, starting with Norman-sounding appellations (and a mysterious ‘T’), followed by a period of plainer English names, and then you get into the grandly double-barrelled Oxbridge MAs …

@ryangjchandler Would you mind saying a bit about the sort of situations where this test might fail?

✨ When building out Livewire components, one of the simplest tests you can write is a "smoke test" that ensures the component can be mounted. I do this so much that I actually have a small helper function in my Pest tests to make it less of a chore to do!

Gist to the code gist.github.com/edjw/4bade08d7…

#Laravel tip I've found useful… "Vite manifest not found" error? You forgot to start Vite. VSCode can automatically start Vite for you

If you're on a Mac, I've just put out a TestFlight. Have a try! testflight.apple.com/join/XSTycxqX

Not keen on this UI (why does Apple have SO MANY palettes‽)

New design tool for #Tailwind, Apple #HIG and more… You've got a colour from a design and you need to code it up. Instead of eyeballing it to find the best colour from your palette, use Nearest Color and be sure you're getting the right colour. nearest-color.com

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@joshcirre That makes sense and I imagine it's a fast workflow for trying things out. $0 to $39 a month plus AWS fees feels a very big change for hobby sites where you don't want to manage a server. Netlify/Vercel do the VC-funded thing to make it $0 obviously.

@_edjw I’m almost exclusively hosting hobby sites on Vapor now. I’m paying for it so might as well put everything on there (and I’ve got some AWS credits I can use).

How do #Laravel developers deploy little hobby sites? Do you all have Forge or Ploi for this?

@joshcirre Oh nice :-) I've watched a lot of your stuff but missed this one. Is Fly still your go-to for hobby sites? It does seem to have far fewer gotchas than the Vercel approach I blogged above

@_edjw Lucky for you I have a video on this exact question! ☺️ Long story short, there’s some great paid options, some free(ish) ones, but deploying quickly and easily is a story that I think is only going to get better. youtu.be/0VJaUcjVjWo?si…

Like I've blogged how to deploy Laravel 11 on Vercel but this is a lot! edjohnsonwilliams.co.uk/blog/2024-06-0…

@joshcirre I was interested in your take as the JS>>Laravel guy on quick and cheap Laravel deployments. That Netlify and Vercel etc quickly deploy a JS framework site for free really lowers the barrier to entry to JS-land imo