The Laravel Podcast

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Migrations, Factories, and Seeding, with John Bonaccorsi Aug 18, 2020

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Eloquent and the Query Builder allow us to interact with our database, but how do we get those databases in the right shape? How do we define their schema, their sample data, or how to run tests against them? In this episode Factory King John Bonaccorsi talks all about these other tools we use every day to interact with our databases.

John on Twitter (https://twitter.com/imjohnbon)
Laravel Docs on Migration (https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/migrations)
Laravel Docs on Factories (https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/packages#factories)
Laravel Docs on Seeding (https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/seeding)
Twenty Percent Time Podcast: Class Based Model Factories (https://twentypercenttime.simplecast.com/episodes/john-bonaccorsi-class-based-model-factories)
Laracasts: Improve Test Arrangements with Factory Classes (https://laracasts.com/series/build-a-laravel-app-with-tdd/episodes/17)
Blog Post on Class-Based model Factories (https://tighten.co/blog/tidy-up-your-tests-with-class-based-model-factories/)
Tighten on Twitter (https://twitter.com/tightenco)
Tighten's Blog (https://tighten.co/blog/)
Fantasy BB (https://fantasybb.com/)
Avatar: The Last Airbender (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender)
Laravel 8 Model Factory Classes (https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/releases#laravel-8)

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Eloquent and the Query Builder, with Jonathan Reinink Aug 04, 2020

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Very few Laravel applications don’t have a data store backing them, and the vast majority are backed by a relational database like MySQL. Laravel’s built-in tooling for interacting with databases, Eloquent and the Query Builder, are powerful, flexible, easy-to-use tools that will get you moving quickly but stay flexible as your app grows.

Jonathan Reinink is the author of Eloquent Performance Patterns (https://eloquent-course.reinink.ca/) and a prolific teacher about Laravel and databases.

Jonathan Reinink (https://reinink.ca/)
Inertia JS (https://inertiajs.com/)
What is an ORM? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping)
Active record pattern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_record_pattern)
Eloquent (https://laravel.com/docs/eloquent)
Query Builder (https://laravel.com/docs/queries)
Query Scopes (https://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#query-scopes)
Jonathan’s blog (https://reinink.ca/articles)
Jonathan’s talk at Laracon US in NY: “Eloquent Performance Patterns” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBUXXErAtuk)

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Debugging and Monitoring, with Jonty Behr Jul 21, 2020

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Every app has bugs! Learning to debugging your apps is a powerful and vital skill, but we also need to know when the bugs are happening, so pair that with good monitoring and you’re ready to go! In this episode, we’re joined by Jonty Behr, a long-time community member, the creator of Laravel Live UK, and the creator of Laravel-targeted bug and log tracker understand.io.

Jonty’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/jontybehr
Codeigniter - https://codeigniter.com
Mettle - https://mettle.io/
Laravel Live UK - https://laravellive.uk/
PaperTrail - https://papertrail.com/
Understand.io - https://understand.io/
Xdebug - http://xdebug.org/
Bugsnag - https://bugsnag.com/
ELK Stack - https://www.elastic.co/what-is/elk-stack
TICK stack - https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/platforms/tick-stack
Matt’s live stream with Derick - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iloCjuqMdKU
Laravel discord channel - https://t.co/4fjanVoFIE?amp=1
Send Portal - https://sendportal.io/
Charity Majors and Observability - https://hub.packtpub.com/honeycomb-ceo-charity-majors-discusses-observability-and-dealing-with-the-coming-armageddon-of-complexity-interview/

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Routing and Blade, with Caleb Porzio Jul 07, 2020

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Any web-based application routes all its requests through URL. Laravel’s routing allows you to define URLs, URL patterns, and HTTP Verbs to match you users’ incoming request to your application’s logic. And, while not all web-based applications return HTML, most do, so let’s also get familiar with Blade, Laravel’s templating language. In this episode, Caleb Porzio, creator of Laravel Livewire and Alpine.js, talks about routing and Blade.

Caleb on Twitter: https://twitter.com/calebporzio
Livewire: https://laravel-livewire.com/
Alpine: https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine/
Sticker pack: https://stickers.calebporzio.com/
Sushi: https://github.com/calebporzio/sushi/
Tighten: https://tighten.co/
Laravel Blade: https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/blade
Twig: https://twig.symfony.com/
@overwrite answers for Blade: https://www.reddit.com/r/laravel/comments/3om7p3/missing_from_the_blade_docs_show_overwrite_append/cvypt9h/
YouTube teachers: Traversy
Livewire screencasts: https://laravel-livewire.com/screencasts/installation
TALLStack: https://tallstack.dev/
Make VS Code Awesome: https://makevscodeawesome.com/

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Local Environment with Valet, Homestead, and Docker, with Chris Brown, Jose Soto, Joe Ferguson Jun 23, 2020

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If you're going to work in modern web development, one of the key ingredients is a local development environment that doesn't rely on anything but your local machine to run.

But, even just in the Laravel world, there are so many options to choose from!

In this episode, three guests will talk us through the pros and cons of Laravel Valet, Laravel Homestead, and Docker-based solutions like Laradock and Vessel.

Chris’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrByteZC
Joses’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/josecanhelp
Joe’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoePFerguson
Valet: https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/valet
Homestead: https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/homestead
Docker: https://www.docker.com/
Laradock: https://laradock.io/
Vessel: https://vessel.shippingdocker.com/
Jose on Twenty Percent Time: https://twentypercenttime.simplecast.com/episodes/jose-soto-docker-for-local-development-P7pz7_EJ
Jose on Laracasts: https://laracasts.com/series/guest-spotlight/episodes/2
Jose's Docker Site: https://daytodaydocker.com/
Valet Diagnoses Command: https://github.com/laravel/valet/issues/936
HyperV: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/about/
VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/
VMWare: https://www.vmware.com/

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Object Oriented Programming, with Alena Holligan Jun 09, 2020

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Most modern web applications and frameworks are built on the principles of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP),. Laravel itself is object-oriented.

But many of us learn about OOP bit by bit as we're coding, not in any formal way.

In this episode we talk to Alena Holligan, veteran PHP programmer, OOP implementer, and educator about what exactly OOP is and how a deeper knowledge of OOP can help us.

Lorna Jane Mitchell: https://lornajane.net/
Craig Dennis - Java: https://teamtreehouse.com/craigsdennis
Lumen Learning: https://lumenlearning.com/
Some treehouse courses from Alena: https://teamtreehouse.com/alenaholligan
Late static bindings, w/r/t self and static: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.late-static-bindings.php
Headcanon: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=headcanon
Sketchings on GitHub: https://github.com/sketchings
Alena Holligan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alenaholligan

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Getting Good with Git, with Gemma Anible May 26, 2020

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Most modern development workflows rely on version control, and most of those use Git. It's easy to follow a quick tutorial and learn a few basic commands--and you should, before listening to this episode--but how much do you know about Git's history, how it compares to other version control systems, or what's actually happening with branches and commits and merges and rebases?

Git enthusiast and expert Gemma Anible joins us this week to teach about some of the foundational basics of Git--not "git commit", but how it's actually architected--and then some common mistakes and pro tips.

Gemma on twitter: https://twitter.com/ellotheth
Gemma on Mastodon: https://mastodon.technology/@ellotheth
Gemma’s web site: https://ramblinations.com/
Gemma on YouTube: Navigate your git repository: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeABW6OU1Gg
WonderProxy: https://wonderproxy.com/
CVS: https://nongnu.org/cvs/
Subversion: https://subversion.apache.org/
Washington, DC legal code: https://github.com/DCCouncil/dc-law-xml
Solo TV show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_(TV_series)
Felicity Kendal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicity_Kendal
Effervescent: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/effervescent
The Ars Technica article where I read about it: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/how-i-changed-the-law-with-a-github-pull-request/
TortoiseSVN (https://tortoisesvn.net/) and TortoiseGit (https://tortoisegit.org/), both for Windows
Git fast forwards: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/git-fast-forwards-and-branch-management-329977726.html
Image halfway down this blog, “The Git History Is A Graph!“: https://jqassistant.org/shadows-of-the-past-analysis-of-git-repositories/
For what would be in the Git reflog on Github: https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/
Git: https://git-scm.com/
Pro Git boo: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
Learn Git Branching: https://learngitbranching.js.org/
Matt’s Git Cherry Pick article: https://mattstauffer.com/blog/how-to-merge-only-specific-commits-from-a-pull-request/
Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars trilogy: https://www.goodreads.com/series/42348-star-wars-the-thrawn-trilogy
Mara Jade Skywalker - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Mara_Jade_Skywalker
Ender’s Game - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game

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Intro to Composer, with Jordi Boggiano May 12, 2020

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As PHP and Laravel programmers, we use Composer every day. But we often don't know its history, nuances, or the plans for the future.

In this episode Matt talks with Jordi Bogianno, co-creator and co-maintainer of Composer, about the powerful tool's history, common use cases, and overall purpose. But we also dive into some nuances, some common mistakes, how it differs from NPM, and the future of the tool.

TeamUp: https://www.teamup.com/
Jordi's Twitter: twitter.com/seldaek
Composer docs: https://getcomposer.org/doc/
Private Packagist: https://packagist.com/
Jordi's Composer Deep Dev talk at Laracon EU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3UfxubW_PU
Composer Best Packages talk by Nils: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpvihKaQyLs
Jordi's OSS wish list: http://seld.be/wishlist
Balvenie scotch: https://www.thebalvenie.com/

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Learning & Keeping Up To Date, with Eric Barnes Apr 28, 2020

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If you're going to work with Laravel -- or any tech stack -- you need to find the best way to learn it, and then you need to find the best way to stay up to date over time.

Eric Barnes has been a member of the Laravel community since the earliest days; he worked at UserScape with Taylor when Taylor was building out Laravel 2, 3, and 4; and he runs Laravel-News.com, the largest and most comprehensive aggregator (and one of the larger creators) of Laravel-related content.

Laravel News: https://laravel-news.com/
Laracasts: https://laracasts.com/
Laravel News Newsletter: https://laravel-news.com/newsletter
Eric Barnes' web site: https://ericlbarnes.com/
Eric Barnes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericlbarnes
UserScape: https://userscape.com
Larajobs: https://larajobs.com/
Laracon Online: https://laracon.net/
Tumblr: https://tumblr.com/
Popular YouTube Laravel teachers
- Matt's streams: https://youtube.com/mattstauffer
- Coder's Tape: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQI-Ym2rLZx52vEoqlPQMdg
- Traversy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC29ju8bIPH5as8OGnQzwJyA
Popular Laravel blogs
- Matt Stauffer: https://mattstauffer.com/
- Tighten: https://tighten.co/blog
- Laravel Daily: https://laraveldaily.com/
- Freek: https://freek.dev/
Adam Wathan's video courses
- Refactoring to Collections: https://adamwathan.me/refactoring-to-collections/
- Test-Driven Laravel: https://course.testdrivenlaravel.com/
News podcasts
- Laravel News Podcast: https://laravel-news.com/category/podcast
- Laravel Snippet: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-laravel-snippet/id1451072164
Todo app tutorials in the Laravel docs
Lists of open source Laravel apps:
- https://github.com/chiraggudeawesome-laravel#codebases-for-reference
- Tighten open source SaaSes
  - NovaPackages: https://github.com/tightenco/novapackages
  - Onramp: https://github.com/tightenco/onramp
  - Symposium: https://github.com/tightenco/symposium
  - Ozzie: https://github.com/tightenco/ozzie
  - Gistlog: https://github.com/tightenco/gistlog
  - Giscus: https://github.com/tightenco/giscus
Laravel: Up and Running: https://laravelupandrunning.com/
Onramp: https://onramp.dev/

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The Ethos of Laravel, with Taylor Otwell Apr 14, 2020

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Laravel Podcast Season Four is all about the topics you need to know to work in Laravel.

This episode is about The Ethos of Laravel, and Matt is joined by Taylor Otwell, creator of Laravel. They talk about what makes Laravel tick--why Taylor created it, how it's unique, what the driving forces are behind the decisions he made in creating it, and much more.

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