Ruben Van Assche

Ruben Van Assche

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Hi there, laravel-data 4

One year after version 3, the newest version of laravel-data is packed with features.

Sending a request with HMAC SHA256 signature using Postman

Make debugging easier by generating signatures right within Postmark.

Sensitive parameters in PHP 8.2

Debugging errors can leak sensitive information, let's see how we can solve this using PHP 8.2

Changing your larger-than-average MySQL table

We're still working on our redesign and are close to release. Today we started tackling an issue where the performance of the error page was too slow for us. In the end, we needed to change the structure of the error occurrences table, which is a lot harder than it seems.

Optimizing Flare

We're redesigning Flare, but our application became really slow. Let's find out why and fix it!

Fixing nested validation in Laravel

This post was first published on the Flare blog. Since the early days, Laravel includes an excellent validator class. It allows you to check if the input provided to your application is valid according a set of rules and follows a specific format. Laravel's validator works on any arbitrary array

Grouping SQL errors

Flare gets a lot of errors, but how to group them?

Laravel resource links two years later

Today we're abandoning spatie/laravel-resource-links. This was the first PHP package I've build and I'm still kinda proud of it but sometimes it is better to say goodbye.

Speeding up the Spatie package installation workflow 🐟

spatie/one-package-to-rule-them-all is probably the biggest package we've ever built at Spatie

A better way to reference things in your application

We constantly reference things within our application with numbers and strings, but is there a better way?

Switching between PHP versions with Laravel Valet

Laravel Valet can easily switch between PHP versions, but sometimes it can get stuck. Let's fix that!

Automatically generating your Laravel morph map

Make Laravel morph maps fun again!

Typing your frontend from the backend

In the past few months, we've been working on one of the biggest projects ever. This created some challenges to keep our frontend and backend types in sync.

Testing Laravel packages with GitHub Actions

Let's take a look at testing Laravel Packages with GitHub Actions

Getting started with GitHub Actions and Laravel

When GitHub released its new product: GitHub Actions a whole new world opened for developers. Let's dive right in and see what it brings for the Laravel community.