Guest Spotlight

Series Episodes

1. Episodes (13)
   1. Everything You Need to Know About Dotfiles

      26m 17s

      Our first guest spotlight is Dries Vints, who works on Laravel as part of the core team. In this episode, he'll show you the ins ands out of managing and organizing dotfiles on your Mac. Have you ever reinstalled your OS, only to spend days downloading and reimplementing your preferences and settings? What if you could instead place this configuration under version control and restore it with only a command or two?
   2. Manage Your Local Dev Environment With Docker

      12m 07s

      In this lesson, Jose Soto will show you, step by step, how easy it can be to maintain local database management systems on your machine, using Docker.
   3. Building Data-Tables With Livewire

      23m 15s

      Searchable, sortable tables or data are a common requirement in web apps. Today, Caleb Porzio walks us through building a custom data-table using a new tool he’s been developing called Livewire. He'll explain what Livewire is, how it works, and show us how we can use it to build interactive UIs without writing a single line of JavaScript!
   4. Refactoring To Lookup Tables

      13m 42s

      Caleb Porzio returns this week to provide an in depth review of lookup tables. Lookup tables are a lesser known, but extremely versatile and powerful little pattern. We’ll use them to clean up some long conditionals, and then explore how they can help us share backend business logic with the frontend.
   5. Tips for Simplifying Laravel Controllers

      4m 55s

      In this lesson, Freek Van der Herten stops by to demonstrate several tips for simplifying your controllers.
   6. Snapshot Testing in PHPUnit

      5m 33s

      In this video, Freek Van der Herten will introduce you to snapshot testing using the PHPUnit Snapshot Assertions package. This style of testing allows you to compare the output of a particular function to the contents of a snapshot that was previously written to disk.
   7. Guzzle API Requests With Tests

      24m 52s

      In this lesson, Bobby Bouwmann shows us how to use Guzzle to make API requests. He'll also demonstrate how you might go about testing classes that perform lengthy network calls.
   8. Tinkerwell Behind the Scenes

      15m 10s

      In this episode, Marcel Pociot takes us behinds the scenes of his popular Tinkerwell Electron app, and discusses some key elements of how it's all wired together.
   9. Rapid Code Generation With Blueprint

      13m 12s

      In this lesson, join Jason McCreary as he reviews his tool, Blueprint. When building a Laravel application, you'll often find that you repeat the same steps and write the same code. To solve this, Blueprint provides a DSL for rapidly generating various Laravel-specific files and components.
   10. Headless Livewire

       13m 54s

       In this lesson, Kevin McKee will show you how to use Laravel Livewire to build simple, intuitive, and secure internal APIs calls. Using Livewire's blade directives, we can easily connect third party JavaScript libraries or your custom JavaScript code to your backend.
   11. An Introduction to Resource Validators

       8m 14s

       In this episode, Mohamed Said will demonstrate how to keep your controllers clean and your models safe from mass assignment vulnerabilities by using resource validators.
   12. How to TDD Artisan Commands

       16m 34s

       In this lesson, Christoph Rumpel will show you how to build and test Laravel console commands, using TDD. Laravel provides a number of useful testing assertions that should help us. Follow along as Christoph creates a command to import users from an external API.
   13. The Null-Object Pattern

       18m 02s

       In this lesson, join Duilio Palacios as he discusses the null object pattern, including why and when you might reach for them.