Day 5: Day off

I try to get one or two days off per week - It’s good for the brain to just stop all those meetings! Relax and see different stuff!

One of my dreams is to do like Bill Gates (I think it’s him who does that… damn not sure anymore) where he goes to a small chalet in the mountains without the internet/smartphone and a few books, and comes back two days later.

But yeah, that will be for another life or… when my SaaS is over and I sell millions of subscriptions!

Let’s use this time to quickly see what happens in the Laravel/PHP world these days.

FrankenPHP

There is a huge hype over this - I’ll pass for now as it seems very new and not really super important for my use case. It will be something I should look at when I’m ready to “deploy” to production for real.

New @session Directive in blade

  @session('register')
     ... your code ...
  @endsession

Nice! It would have been perfect to know that yesterday… :) when I wrote

@if (!Cookie::get('register') && !session()->has('success'))
    <span>Show the form<span>
@else
    <span>Show thank you register<span>
@endif

Now, I’m wondering if there is a @cookie directive…

How to Upgrade Laravel/Package?

Something that I’ve asked myself for a long time; I like to keep my packages up-to-date when I’m developing something.

Filament-starter

I came across filament-starter; I installed it and took a look at it, it’s quite nice. The guy has filled a page with commits today :) Never saw that!

I’ll keep an eye on it.

Filament Plugin

It is truly impressive too! There are a lot of useful plugins here! The advanced tables are wonderful (not free) - Spotlight.

I’ll have to do a review of all the plugins I’ll need in the future. I might want to add a new series about those plugins for review and screenshots (a lot of them miss some screenshots…).