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Jan 7, 2022 12 tweets 5 min read Read on X
Here are my top 10 #Laravel packages📦

I would immediately DIE without them!

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1/11 laravel-query-builder by @spatie_be

With this package, you can build Eloquent queries based on the Request. It can handle things like:

- Filtering
- Sorting
- Including relationships
- Sparse fieldsets
2/11 has-many-deep by @staudenmeir

With this package, you can query deep relationships with a single SQL query.

Consider these relationships:
Country → has many → User → has many → Post → has many → Comment
3/11 Pest by @nunomaduro

The elegant testing framework inspired by Jest from the JS world:
4/11 Blueprint by @gonedark

With this package, you can define your models in a YAML file and it will generate:

- Migrations
- Models with relationships
- Factories
- CRUD Controllers
- Routes
- Form requests
- Even Jobs, Mails, Events, or basic HTTP tests
5/11 Clockwork by itsgoingd

Debugbar on steroids. You can monitor:

- Requests
- Performance metrics
- Log entries
- DB queries
- Cache queries
- Redis commands
- Events, jobs
- ...and more
6/11 json-api by @timacdonald87

A package that implements the JSON API standard and makes your life easy.

This is how a JsonApiResource looks like:
7/11 ziggy @TightenCo

This package makes it possible to use your Laravel named routes from your Javascript. Only applies to full-stack or MVC Laravel apps (no SPA).

Very useful!
8/11 laravel-auditing by owen-it

With this package, you can audit every change in your models. You only need to add a single Trait to your models, and you get every change recorded!
9/11 laravel-excel by @SpartnerNL

If you work with Excel exports this package is a must-have! This is how a simple user export looks like:
10/11 laravel-ide-helper by @barryvdh

The good old IDE helper! This package makes your IDE understand your models and Laravel classes. It gives you very nice autocompletion.
11/11 Thank you if you’re still here!

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🛠️ How to measure performance in Laravel

There are some pretty simple tools you can start measuring your app's performance with:
- ab
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- Telescope

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1/14 Here are some of the most important measures of an API/backend service:
- Throughput: the number of requests the system can handle
- Load time: the amount of time it takes for an HTTP request to respond
- Size: the total size of the HTTP response.
2/14 ...measures of an API/backend service

- Server uptime: the duration of time the server is up and running
- CPU usage: the amount of CPU your system needs to run. It is usually expressed as load average
- Memory usage: the amount of memory your system uses
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💡How to integrate 3rd parties into your application?

We have to integrate with a ton of 3rd party APIs, and SDKs in every project. You can treat them as mini-applications inside your app.

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Treat your 3rd parties as if they were mini-applications inside your application. They have their own namespaces with their own DTOs service classes and so on. Something like this: Image
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In the Services folder, I create a new folder for each 3rd party and treat it like it is a mini-application inside my app.

It looks like this: Image
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Nov 21, 2023
💡 If you're running PHP or Laravel apps in production you're probably using nginx and php-fpm.

But do you actually know what these terms mean?
- CGI
- FastCGI
- php-fpm
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Let's find out!

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1/9 CGI

CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. As the name suggests, it's not a package or library. No, it's an interface, a protocol.

CGI gives us a unified way to run scripts from web servers to generate dynamic content. Image
2/9 CGI

It's platform and language-independent so the script can be written in PHP, python, or anything.

CGI uses a "one-process-per-request" model. It means that when a request comes in to the web browser it creates a new process to execute the php script:
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🔥If you struggle to start with CI/CD pipelines here’s a pretty basic but useful one with:

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At the beginning of every GitHub workflow, we need to define what is going to trigger it.

In this case, it’ll run if you push to the main branch or you open a PR to it: Image
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In the next section, we can define the jobs. Each job defines a set of steps (for example a script) and these steps run in order.

In this simple example, I only have one job that runs on Ubuntu: Image
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But do you actually know what these terms mean?
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Let's find out!

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1/9 CGI

CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. As the name suggests, it's not a package or library. No, it's an interface, a protocol.

CGI gives us a unified way to run scripts from web servers to generate dynamic content. Image
2/9 CGI

It's platform and language-independent so the script can be written in PHP, python, or anything.

CGI uses a "one-process-per-request" model. It means that when a request comes in to the web browser it creates a new process to execute the php script:
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Here are my favorite 16 Laravel packages📦

I would immediately DIE without them!

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1/17 laravel-excel

The single best package to handle Excel exports and imports:

- Exporting collections
- Storing files
- Exporting from a query
- Queue jobs
- And more Image
2/17 laravel-health

This amazing Spatie package can monitor the health of your application and server. It sends you notifications if something's wrong. For example:
- CPU load
- Used disk space
- Database connections
- Redis
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