There are a lot of amazing ready to use laravel packages on Github and packages. Every project uses open-source packages. The only problem with open source is the lack of maintenance as it is not a full time paid job for contributors. Laravel is a very rapidly developed PHP framework…

This article is an updated version of Larave 5.5 package development article Step 1. Create a new project I prefer using the Laravel installer. You can read more about the installation here: https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/installation laravel new lara-dg I prefer using SQLite for testing and package development. Adjust your.env file DB_CONNECTION=sqlite DB_DATABASE=/Users/ivan/code/packages/test-project/database/database.sqlite

Testing is good. I’m a big fan of well tested code but nobody likes waiting tests to be finished. It is ok when you have a few hundreds of them or less. But when we reached a 2K number it became a really frustrating issue. In our case all integration…

Let me introduce our new laravel package for logging console commands. It was developed specially for our Tenantcloud project. It is rather simple but at the same time really useful. In our development process we faced with the problem of many cron jobs and console commands. Some of them were…

First of all I want to thank Cristian Tăbăcitu for his cool article about package development.My article is just an extension of his article. Here I will cover all steps of creating, maintaining and using packages. I will be using my laravel-boolean-softdeletes package as an example. Step 1. Create new project I prefer using Laravel…

There is no predefined interface for changing queue for event listeners in Laravel 5.3. By default, it is always taken from your config. My solution: Create an abstract class for your listeners: namespace App\Listeners; /** * Class BaseListener */ abstract class BaseListener { /**…