Problem solving is a universal skill, and developers have a unique edge, our work trains us to think systematically. In DHH’s interview with the Primeagen they take a deep dive on a variety of topics, including being ready to figure stuff out.
One trait that serves any professional well is the ability to learn from others and incorporate beneficial systems that others have established. The Essential Craftsman drops some knowledge bombs that every web developer can benefit from.
I you do any work with arrays in Laravel or Craft you will instantly benefit for harnessing the power and utility of Laravel Collections. For Laravel, for Craft.
Great concise video on Laravel actions, how to create them and how to test them.
Another handy little Laravel helper, abort_if. Perfect little helper inside actions when things go wrong.
Great little Laravel model tip. Use the "wasRecentlyCreated" model attribute to check if your model was created or found 👍
You can use the Section Rendering API to request the HTML markup for theme sections using an AJAX request. This can allow you to update page content without reloading the entire page by fetching and dynamically replacing only certain elements 🤯. More details here, https://shopify.dev/docs/api/a... Skip to 2:40 in the video to see Wes Bos explain in.
It's hard to beat Laravel for backend development and React is a force for front end development. Inertia.js is the little bridge flowing the traffic between the two. This YouTube series does a 🧨 job of explaining how to make it happen.
An elegant way to scale fonts and spacing for responsive designs. A generated example with 8 scales
FetchPHP is a PHP library that mimics the behavior of JavaScript’s fetch API using the powerful Guzzle HTTP client. 🐕
A super flexy way to wrap button text when a row has multiple buttons/options.
Discovered a new HTML element `datalist`. Adds a dropdown autocomplete option to input fields. Finding features like this in native HTML is 🧨
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