A collection of posts about Web Development, whether it be problems I've faced, solutions I've found, cool stuff I've been trying out or new projects I'm working on.
Development
You may have guessed that I'm a big fan of PestPHP and one of the biggest things I love about it is how easy it is to run your tests in parallel, by simple passing --paralell flag into your run command. You can specify the number of processes
Speaking
Well, this morning was quite an interesting one as I gave a lecture to a bunch of Teesside University students and staff, which is something I've never done before! I wanted to talk about something quite general that everyone could gain something from, so I decided to talk
Development
I've been looking into Livewire for quite some time now, but never really had a need to use it and the way I learn best is by working on a project that I can actually "launch" at the end of it. Well recently at work, I
Development
So SaloonPHP received a new plugin this week! The plugin is called Lawman and well, actually, it's a PestPHP plugin for SaloonPHP. Saloon and Pest are two of the PHP libraries that I used on a daily basis, and I thought it was about time they met each
Development
So if you've used SaloonPHP, you'll know it's pretty awesome. In fact, I have several posts about it on this site and it's one of my favourite tools! Quite some time ago, I added the ability to run php artisan saloon:list
Development
PestPHP has had the toBeEnum() Expectation for a while now and is great to ensure your Enums are, well, Enums. I wanted to take this Expectation one step further though and introduce a way of checking that Enums are either string backed or int backed. Introducing 2 new Expectations for
Development
I'm a huge fan of SaloonPHP created by my good friend Sam Carré and would recommend anyone checks it out if you deal with API integrations! Part of SaloonPHP is the Laravel Plugin, again, massive fan of that! In order to create a new API Request, you'
Development
I've just released a new version of Faker Stripe! This is a pretty simple update that adds 8 more IDs that can be generated via the package: * stripeCoreSetupIntentClientSecret * stripeCoreBankAccountTokenId * stripeCorePersonallyIdentifiableInformationTokenId * stripeCoreAccountTokenId * stripeCorePersonTokenId * stripeCoreCvcUpdateTokenId * stripeBillingCreditNoteLineItemId * stripeBillingCustomerPortalConfigurationId Enjoy!
Development
If you're using Laravel for your application and Saloon for your API Integrations, you should also be using the Saloon Laravel Plugin to make it even easier to use Saloon! One of the cool things about the plugin is that it provides a super easy way of seeing
Development
I added another Expectation to PestPHP recently! I'd like to introduce the isUrl() Expectation. As you may have guessed, it's to check that a given value is a valid URL. Behind the scenes, the code is super simple and makes use of the handy FILTER_VALIDATE_
Development
This week in my free time, I've been working on a new Expectation for PestPHP which allows you to check whether a value, is between 2 other values. The Expectation works with int, float and DateTime types, and can be used like so: // Int expect(2)->
Development
This past weekend, I decided to add a couple more Architecture Expectations to PestPHP. I spent some time last week writing Arch tests for an internal tool at work and found myself writing the following expectation quite a lot: ->toHaveMethod('__construct'); Now whilst this works, it