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Debugging: Configure VS Code + XDebug + PHPUnit

Oct 19, 2017 · Jose Soto

I've lost track of how many hours I have spent trying to configure and use Xdebug. The process usually begins with me noticing how often I've been using dd() while re-running my PHPUnit tests. I think to myself, "There has to be a better way."...

Look for the Helpers

Oct 4, 2017 · Marje Holmstrom-Sabo

At Tighten, we value kindness, compassion, and empathy, and our hearts are heavy as we continue to see and hear stories from Puerto Rico. How can we help? What can we do?

Writing Better CSS Selectors in Dusk

Sep 26, 2017 · Caleb Porzio

One of the hardest parts of writing acceptance tests in a tool like Laravel Dusk is choosing selectors for targeting elements. Since these tools use CSS selectors, you suffer all the same problems you...

A Look at the Tighten Crew's Battlestations

Sep 15, 2017 · Samantha Geitz

Tighten is a 100% remote company, and one of the best parts about working from home is that you're able to set up your office however you'd like. Today, we thought we'd give you a peek into the inner sanctums of the Tighten crew...

Extending Models in Eloquent

Sep 4, 2017 · Caleb Porzio

We’ve come a long way since the days of hand-writing SQL queries in our web apps. Tools like Laravel’s Eloquent ORM allow us to interact with databases at a higher level, freeing us from lower...

A Cautionary Tale of Nondeterministic Laravel Pagination

Aug 16, 2017 · Jamison Valenta

TL;DR: There's a very common pagination setup that may end up with users never seeing some of their results because of how SQL handles sorts by columns other than the index. I'll show why and how to fix...

Introducing Ziggy - a package providing Laravel Named Routes in JavaScript

Aug 8, 2017 · Daniel Coulbourne

Caleb Porzio and I started a podcast recently in our Tighten-provided 20% time . We call it...

Calculating distance using MySQL

Aug 4, 2017 · Logan Henson

On a client project recently, we had to make it easy to filter database query results based on the distance between a user and an entity in our database. It's easy to get overwhelmed in that context, worrying about the crazy amount of PHP calculations...

Testing Laravel framework contributions in a local Laravel install

Jun 23, 2017 · Caleb Porzio

Imagine this scenario: You want to contribute to the Laravel framework, whether it be an idea for a new Collection method, a string helper, or even just a small spelling fix. Naturally, you fork Laravel, pull down a local copy, and make the change you...

A Brief Introduction to Progressive Web Apps, or PWAs

Jun 5, 2017 · Matt Stauffer

If you're like me, you like to keep at the relative forefront of frontend web development, but trying to stay on the bleeding edge is exhausting. I know Vue and React and ES6; I haven't touched broccoli, next.js, or whatever else is the newest...

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