If you’ve ever worked on any PHP application, or package, or anything you know that debugging performance issues is hard. There are several ways to ease the pain a little: debug bars, putting timers a bit everywhere. Or if you’re courageous like I was for a long time,...
I like to think of client-side applications as empty shells that get populated with data and where the source of that data can be anything: an object in your javascript code, an HTTP request, a JSON file, … Making sure this data flows correctly through your application is one hell of...
Last updated: December 2020 By now you’ve probably heard about this new cool tool on the block called Webpack. If you haven’t looked that much into it you’re probably a bit confused by some people calling it a build tool à la Gulp and other people calling...
1. The Laravel framework has become very popular, between others, for its simplicity and expressiveness. With the recent release of Laravel v5, most of the core dependencies were updated. The same applies to illuminate/config, which is responsible for containing our app’s configuration. We are often involved in projects...
I have already covered how you can easily integrate Elasticsearch with your app, but I haven’t talked anything about how you can query your data. I won’t cover the basics of querying or filtering here, instead I will cover a cool feature called aggregations, it’s a way...
Yo! There’s a revamped version (2022) of this article about integrating Elasticsearch with your Laravel app. Searching is an important part of many applications, and it is most of the time treated as a simple task. “Just query using LIKE and you’re good to go”. Well, while the...
A lot of shiny things around the Laravel world that I would like to talk about, so I chose the new CommandBus that Laravel 5 brings by default. To start I’d like to say that it’s pretty damn cool. Command-Oriented Architecture I’m not gonna explain in detail...