Dan Mason

Just rebuilt my personal site using @HydeFramework static site generator using markdown and @laravelphp blade where I want to. Also merged my blog from an external site into my personal site. danielmason.co.uk/?utm_medium=so…

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@michaeldyrynda @gonedark @laravelnews I have been doing this for years, always try and gear tests to give the most useful output on failure. However, if in the code being tested this job is dispatched within a try/catch (Throwable) then it will catch the assertions/expectation exception and hide the failure.

@gonedark @laravelnews Like if the closure you pass to `assertPushed` throws an exception? Maybe something that's been resolved since, I can't think of any issues i've run into it, but I also haven't seen as many variations of code as you have. No doubt some edge cases, but there be dragons

I touched on it on the last @laravelnews podcast, but thought it warranted further explanation. Here's how I go about testing queued jobs have been dispatched as expected, and how I avoid lose my mind chasing down failures

@PerttiSoomann @ollieread I did use @HydeFramework for my personal site and found it pretty straight forward.

@ollieread Tools often try to do too much and it shows when developers are trying to show off ideas of coding rather than ideas of usability. I know from personal experience it's so hard to keep scope low and on point. Anything out there in PHP sphere that's ok-ish?

PHP static site generators have such inherent complexity through convention-based approaches, that I think it may just be easier to build the site static myself. Just like the old days.

Laravel Sail is a great tool for developing Laravel applications without having to set up services on your local machine. If you've been looking for a detailed guide to @laravelphp Sail, Cole Shirley has just the thing for you! Link in thread.

Another 🔥 @vuejs tip from @brandonferens! Watchers only fire when the reactive object they are watching changes, but sometimes you may need to fire the watcher as soon as the component is mounted. Pretty easy to do:

And we already supporting it! In the next release.

We started adding screenshots to OFFICIAL @filamentphp docs! The first merged PR with this image pushed by @ModestasMV github.com/filamentphp/fi… The system to push images isn't simple, but we "cracked the code", and more images from our team coming to the docs.

Wrote and shipped this Livewire feature in like an hour this morning (probably broken af), but check it: wire:current ✨✨✨ Super clean way to detect if the current page matches a link and slap some Tailwind on there (works with wire:navigate and persisted layouts obv)

@PovilasKorop @filamentphp Definitely a useful function Povilas! Recently had a need to only render urls if the user could actually access the linked page. For example, if the user needs to a specific permission. Used it in a nice trait which you can see on this gist: gist.github.com/dmason30/f2970…

Filament tip. Did you know you can get the URLs to @filamentphp Resource pages with the `getUrl()` method? Read the full tutorial on Laravel Daily: laraveldaily.com/post/filament-…

@JackEllis If you are working with objects you can just use optional chaining instead? Assuming same structure:

Why did nobody tell me about this function? I've been converting objects to arrays for years in order to use Arr::get(). This changes everything 🙈

Did you ever get annoyed by PHPStan complaining when retrieving config values and you must type a /** @var string */ comment? TIL from @danmasonmp that you can use type-hinted config methods to retrieve typed values from Laravel config.

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It's no secret that we're huge @filamentphp fans. In this new article, @derekgoetzit goes into full detail on why we love having Filament in our toolkit. Link below 👇

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@fideloper Yeah probably 😅 its the one i been using for my social images last few months.

@danmasonmp First I've heard of it, I assume there's like 984375834 of these apps 😅

"don't do this", "okay I didn't do this" (it does the thing) (jetstream has nothing to do with this, just a random website I chose)

@JackEllis Yeah, recently moved from a MBP Intel 2019 which definitely had its issues with PHPStorm haha. Can't say i seen the issue you describe but likely also performance related. ST4 certainly is decent and i have used it occasionally. I am a big fan of the Laravel Idea plugin though 😅

@danmasonmp But this is what's funny. I would have to disable everything to... make it like ST4. One other thing that bothered me was every time I changed a line, it would re-colour the whole page. And MBP M3 is a BEAST, I'm still on my MBA M1 ;)

Alright, Jeffrey, I think you got me.

@JackEllis For point 1 at least, I would bet phpstorm lets you disable anything that you found distracting. Performance is a common gripe, I will say on a MBP M3 not experiencing any issues but it def depends on your projects.

Update: I lasted a month. Productivity took a big hit and PhpStorm doesn't work with my brain. 1) The linting, warnings, reformatting, errors, etc. that clean your code distracted me 2) Insanely slow compared to ST4 3) Vue auto imports means PhpStorm offers no JS benefits 🙈

Going home after a great couple days @LaravelLiveUK great talks and great socials. Here you @RhysLeesDev , @ryangjchandler, @danjharrin and other great people. Look forward to Coming back next year 🍻