Manage Invite Codes for Your Laravel Applications

 Laravel Invite Codes is a package by Mateus Junges that allows you to manage invite codes for your Laravel application easily. It works by configuring a middleware that validates an invite code before accessing a route:

1Route::get('/protected-route', function() {
2    //
3})->middleware('protected_by_invite_codes');

You can generate an invite code using the following API, restricting this code to a specific user account:

1use \Junges\InviteCodes\Facades\InviteCodes;
2 
3$invite_code = InviteCodes::create()
4    ->expiresAt('2020-02-01')
5    ->maxUsages(10)
6    ->restrictUsageTo('contato@mateusjunges.com')
7    ->save();

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub at mateusjunges/laravel-invite-codes.

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Server Timing Metrics for your Laravel Apps

 Laravel Server Timing is a package by Marcel Pociot that allows you to easily add server timing information within your Laravel apps.

Server timing information helps instrument request/response data from the server for at-a-glance data you want surface in the browser.

After you install the Server Timing package, it provides the following metrics out-of-the-box:

• Bootstrap
• Application time
• Total

And here’s an example of the server timing information as seen in Google Chrome using the default instrumented values:

You can add additional measurements with this package using the ServerTiming facade or accompanying service in your code:

 1ServerTiming::start('Running expensive task');
 2 
 3// do something
 4 
 5ServerTiming::stop('Running expensive task');
 6 
 7// If you already know the exact time:
 8ServerTiming::setDuration('Running expensive task', 1200);
 9 
10// Measure the duration of the closure:
11ServerTiming::setDuration('Running expensive task', function() {
12    sleep(5);
13});

Finally, here’s an example of the raw header value using the default measurements:

1Server-Timing: bootstrap;desc="Bootstrap";dur=32.552003860474, app;desc="App";dur=8, total;desc="Total";dur=41.576147079468,

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub at beyondcode/laravel-server-timing.

The Server-Timing header documentation on MDN provides further details on the spec.

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Laravel Option Framework

The Laravel Option Framework by @haruncpi helps you “manage your Laravel application’s dynamic settings in one place with various supported input types.”

Here’s an example screenshot provided from the project’s readme:

It’s main features include:

• Clean & fresh responsive UI
• Configurable route
• Configurable middleware
• Build-in Option UI
• Various option type support
• Laravel validation rules support
• and more

It works by defining a config/options.php file, that might look similar to the following example from the README:

 1return [
 2    [
 3        "id" => "general",
 4        "label" => "General",
 5        "icon" => "fa-cubes",
 6        "fields" => [
 7            [
 8                "type" => "text",
 9                "id" => "site_name",
10                "label" => "Site Name",
11                "description" => "Enter your site name",
12                "icon" => "fa-globe",
13                "validation" => 'required|min:10'
14            ],
15            [
16                "type" => "text",
17                "id" => "site_slogan",
18                "label" => "Site Slogan",
19                "description" => "Enter site slogan",
20                "validation" => 'required'
21            ],
22            [
23                "type" => "timepicker",
24                "id" => "backup_time",
25                "label" => "Backup Time",
26                "description" => "Set db backup time",
27                "validation" => 'required'
28            ]
29 
30        ]
31    ],
32    [
33        "id" => "social",
34        "label" => "Social",
35        "icon" => "fa-globe",
36        "fields" => [ /* ... */ ]
37    ]
38];

To retrieve an option in your code, you use the getOption() helper:

1getOption('backup_time');

At the time of writing this package supports the following field types:

• text
• textarea
• switcher
• editor
• colorpicker
• datepicker
• timepicker
• datetimepicker
• dropdown
• autocomplete
• radio
• tag
• multicheck
• icon

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub at laravel-option-framework.

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