Having a lot of migrations might slow down your tests. My colleague Alex shares how you can fix this. One of the larger test suites I run daily has about 1500 tests in it. It takes just over 4 minutes to complete at an average of 160ms per test. That’s pretty good. However, lately I’ve noticed a delay between starting PHPUnit and running the first test. This delay grew to the point where running a single test would take almost 12 seconds with the setUp method using most of that time on… migrations.

When working on a project with other people, it’s important to pick a coding standard. A coding standard like PSR-2 in the PHP world specifies rules on where certain characters, like braces of an if statement, or comma's should be put. Agreeing on a coding standard makes the code more…

Refactoring is an excellent book written by Martin Fowler. He recently released a second edition. I’m reading it now and can recommend it to anyone interested in writing better code. Here’s an interview with the author on the second edition of the book. InfoQ interviewed Fowler about the major changes in the 2nd edition of Refactoring, how to recognize code smells and refactor code, how code reviews and refactoring support each other, what tech leads can do to encourage refactoring, the benefits refactoring brings, using tools for refactoring, and mob programming.

Here’s a cool video by Caleb Porzio where he demonstrates his proof of concept port of Phoenix LiveView in Laravel. I recently read through this blog post about Phoenix LiveView and got really excited for what might be possible in Laravel. I started hacking on a little proof of concept in Laravel and quickly realized this might be a game changer. Proof of Concept: Phoenix LiveView for Laravel I recently read through this blog post about Phoenix LiveView and got really excited for what might be possible in…calebporzio.com

The main thought behind hexagonal architecture is that by isolation the core logic of your app, adding more inputs (like an API or console app) or outputs becomes much easier. Here’s a cool talk Mattias Noback gave a few years ago at SymfonyLive on the topic.

Chris McCord, author of the Phoenix Framework, will soon release a new feature called LiveView: a way of making interactive apps without JavaScript. It’s powered by WebSockets, morphdom Phoenix LiveView is an exciting new library which enables rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML. LiveView powered applications are stateful on the server with bidrectional communication via WebSockets, offering a vastly simplified programming model compared to JavaScript alternatives. While modern JavaScript tooling enables sophisticated client applications, it often comes at an extreme cost in complexity and maintainability

Chris McCord, author of the Phoenix Framework, will soon release a new feature called LiveView: a way of making interactive apps without JavaScript. It’s powered by WebSockets, morphdom Phoenix LiveView is an exciting new library which enables rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML. LiveView powered applications are stateful on the server with bidrectional communication via WebSockets, offering a vastly simplified programming model compared to JavaScript alternatives. While modern JavaScript tooling enables sophisticated client applications, it often comes at an extreme cost in complexity and maintainability

On the Laravel News blog, Tim MacDonald wrote a nice collection of tips on how to make PHPUnit tests run faster. Having a fast test suite can be just as important as having a fast application. As a developer, getting feedback quickly about the state of your code allows for a much quicker development turnaround. Here we are going to run through some tips you can implement today to make your tests run faster.