Tim MacDonald

Legally, I'm not allowed to talk about that 😉

Today we're bringing Precognition to Inertia's Form component! 🔮

And not only in the Form component, we're also bringing it to useForm() out of the box. No additional packages needed anymore.

So glad you love it 🥹

Sticky database connections across requests with Laravel Support Laravel's `sticky` option for read write database replicas across different requests

✍️ New post: Sticky database connections across requests with Laravel 🍯

Support Laravel's `sticky` option for read write database replicas across different requests.

tim.macdonald.au/sticky-datab...

Laravel Vapor - Laravel Nightwatch Get started with Nightwatch on Vapor

We've had a fair number of requests for Nightwatch setup instructions on Vapor, so we put together a guide to help get you started.

Nightwatch 🤝 Vapor

nightwatch.laravel.com/docs/guides/...

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We just shipped Nightwatch: application monitoring & logging obsessively optimized for Laravel.

✨ Start with a single command
📊 Monitor every event
⏱️ Review precise timelines & logs
⚠️ Hear less noise with smart alerts

And much more, including a free plan for anywhere you deploy Laravel apps.

Exclusively.

🥳 Welcome

laravel new bluesky

Wanna shorten imports when using Laravel Wayfinder?

Add a custom Vite alias pointing to whatever directory makes sense for your project.

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…and now I’m cranking System Of A Down 🎧

Says the guy who cooks up, and implements, the some of the best ideas I’ve seen.

[12.x] Introduce memoized cache driver by timacdonald · Pull Request #55304 · laravel/framework We put things in the cache because the cache is fast; that doesn't mean hitting the cache is free. This PR introduces a memoized cache driver. This new driver is a decorator around other cache ...

Opened a framework PR to introduce a memoized cache driver.

`Cache::memo()->get($key);`

github.com/laravel/fram...

Two charts, one showing the number of 4xx requests to a site over a 7 day period, and the other showing the response times over the same period.

I'm fascinated with the data Nightwatch is collecting

This new site for a client is eye-opening to not only the quantity of 4xx requests (targeting pre-me routes including `wp-admin`), but also the impact these have on the server's capability 🤯

And this data now drives change for our server mgmt

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How does the laravel team keep cooking this stuff up!? Wayfinder looks amazing!

Being a joint project with @joe.codes, gotta bring him in to feel the love as well.

So glad you are all enjoying the package we cooked up together.

Fake expectations A testing fake with named assertions or Pest PHP's expectation API: ¿Por Qué No Los Dos?

✍️ Fresh post: Fake expectations

A testing fake with named assertions or Pest PHP's expectation API: ¿Por Qué No Los Dos?

tim.macdonald.au/fake-expecta...

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Laravel Wayfinder integrates perfectly with Inertia, however it also pairs lovely with Axios and the fetch API.

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ICYMI

GitHub - laravel/wayfinder Contribute to laravel/wayfinder development by creating an account on GitHub.

From the galaxy brain of @tim.macdonald.au, with just a dash of Tannenbaum, presenting Laravel Wayfinder.

Automatically generate TS functions for your controllers/named routes so you can call your endpoints directly in your client code.

Available now in public beta.

github.com/laravel/wayf...

We cool.

It’s my rapper name.

Little @tim.macdonald.au x @joe.codes beta package drops tomorrow, I... love this one. And am very excited.

Grim AF

For real. Look on the bright side: got time to go make a coffee!

Mark all files as un-viewed in a GitHub pull request Use the "viewed" feature on GitHub PRs? Me too, and I wanted to ability to mark *all* files as un-viewed.

✍️ Mark all files as un-viewed in a GitHub pull request

GitHub has a feature to mark individual files as viewed while reviewing a pull request.

I wanted the ability to mark _all_ files as un-viewed.

tim.macdonald.au/mark-all-fil...