Geni Jaho articles - 24 total
Simplifying work with custom stubs in Laravel
Testing is almost always difficult when developing applications that interact with external services,...
Upgrading to Laravel 10, PHPUnit 10, and Pest 2
We're upgrading from Laravel 9 to 10, and PHPUnit 9 to 10, and, if all goes well, we'll top it off by...
Speed up GitHub Actions by caching Composer, Rector, & Pint
GitHub's 2000 minutes per month of free usage of GitHub Actions is usually enough to handle light...
Doing stricter checks in PHP
A nice refactoring I've learned recently is to utilize types in conditionals. For years I’ve been...
Upgrading to Eloquent accessors & mutators from Laravel 9
Laravel 10 is making the headlines these days. However, many apps are stuck in older versions, or at...
Development Driven Testing
One of the first roles that I've been working on since I went full-time remote was that of the unit...
Allowing users to send emails with their own SMTP settings in Laravel 9
Various guides exist on how to do this in Laravel, but all the ones I found (this and this) worked...
Safely upgrade from PHP 7.4 to 8.1 using Rector
I have to say it from the start, the only thing that comes close to safely upgrading a codebase is...
Refactoring #8: What is dead may never run
It's important to take a good look at your code and clean up when you're done with it. Once in a...
Refactoring #7: Upping the coding style game in PHP using Rector
Continuing from the last post, we're now exploring other Rector configurations that help us improve...
Refactoring #6: Improve Code Quality in Laravel using Rector
I recently discovered Rector and was completely blown away by its power and effectiveness. The...
Adding user-specific settings in Laravel
The latest feature we added to OLM is the ability to make yourself known to the world using your...
Refactoring #5: From arrays to Data Transfer Objects
We recently pushed a new improvement at OLM to reward admins with XP for verifying uploaded images....
Generate monthly chart data with Eloquent & Carbon
Say we want to display the number of users that signed up in the last years, for each month. It's not...
Testing Form Requests with PHPUnit
Countless are the times I've had to test for validation errors, and countless are the times I've...
Refactoring #4: Using Minio to work with S3 buckets locally
You’ll often notice in various projects that code behaves differently depending on the environment....
Refactoring #3: Optimizing Eloquent queries & console commands
We have a console command at Openlittermap that takes all the litter locations in the world and...
Refactoring #2: From controllers to actions
A major pain point in programming is having to deal with all the clutter that is shoved into...
How to add support for HEIC images with ImageMagick in PHP
Apple released a new image format called HEIC/HEIF, and it broke many apps that handle image...
Refactoring #1: Using ternary and null coalescing operators in PHP
Take a look at this little method below. Three issues come to mind the first time you see it....
Typewriter animation using Vanilla JS and Highlight.js
You’ve seen typewriter animations. You’ve seen the power of Highlight.js. Now you’re seeing the...
Testing Fat Laravel Controllers - Pt. 2
Before we start with the second part of testing our fat controller, let's clarify what we should have...
Testing Fat Laravel Controllers - Pt. 1
Many new products launching out there don't embrace a TDD approach. It's the norm that code is pushed...
Unit Testing Laravel Models
Some might consider Laravel model testing to be a gruesome task, especially when there's plenty of...