In 2023, DHH's decision to remove TypeScript from Hotwire and Turbo caused some drama in the JavaScript community. At Spatie we’re open source maintainers too, so this sparked an interesting debate: What can users expect from our open source packages?
Backup Server is a Laravel package that monitors your servers and ensures their contents are backed up. It uses rsync to back up data from a source (a server you have access to via SSH) to a backup destination (a local Laravel disk).
A PestPHP plugin to ensure all your laravel routes are available and not returning errors
We released a mini package called spatie/holidays which helps with calculating the public holidays of a country.
I have been a satisfied Valet user for the past four years, but my recent frustrations with Homebrew have led me to look into Laravel Herd.
A new package release which uses Pixelmatch under the hood.
How I finally managed to finish and deploy a personal website instead of letting it end up in the digital graveyard with the others.
Laravel's DataAwareRule interface allows us to access and utilize additional validation data
See how a minor change to your commit message style can make you a better programmer.
Before you write any code — ask if you could ever possibly want multiple kinds of the thing you are coding. If yes, just do it. Now, not later.
I stumbled upon this great 10-year-old article by Jason Fried on giving someone else's ideas a chance. Think before reacting to keep a creative mindset.
Laravel's data retrieval methods: get(), chunk(), and lazy(), compared through informal benchmarks. Understand memory and speed trade-offs.
Laravel's LazyCollection class is a powerful tool that lets you process enormous amounts of data with very little memory.
Static analysis like Psalm and Phpstan are increasing popularity in the PHP world. It gives us the ability to discover unknown potential bugs in our code without actually running it.