Blade Icons Package

 Dries Vints has created a new package to easily make use of Hero icons in your Laravel Blade views.

By far my most favorite addition to Laravel 7 are the new Blade components. There’s all kinds of cool things you can do with them so I thought I’d share some of them with you.

I’ve built a new package called Blade Heroicons to easily make use of the Heroicons originally made Steve Schoger and Adam Wathan. The packages provides a simple component based flow to include them in your Blade views.

Icons can be used as self-closing Blade components which will be compiled to SVG icons:

1<x:heroicon-o-adjustments/>

You can also pass classes to your icon components:

1<x:heroicon-o-adjustments class="w-6 h-6 text-gray-500"/>

And even use inline styles:

1<x:heroicon-o-adjustments style="color: #555"/>

The Github repo has complete instructions and here is an overview on how this package works

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Class-Based Factories with Laravel Poser

 With Laravel Poser, you can “create class-based model factories in Laravel applications in seconds.” This package works by creating factory classes by hand or using the artisan make:poser command:

1namespace Tests\Factories;
2 
3use Lukeraymonddowning\Poser\Factory;
4 
5class UserFactory extends Factory {}

Here’s a basic example of a test case using a Poser factory class:

1/** @test */
2public function a_user_can_have_customers()
3{
4    UserFactory::times(20)
5               ->hasAddress()
6               ->withCustomers(CustomerFactory::times(20)->withBooks(5))();
7 
8    $this->assertCount(20 * 20 * 5, Book::all());
9}

Poser is smart enough to figure out that withCustomers() is a reference to a CustomerFactory class, so you could write it as follows instead:

1/** @test */
2public function user_has_customers()
3{
4    $user = UserFactory::new()
5        ->withCustomers(30)
6        ->create();
7 
8    $this->assertCount(30, $user->customers);
9}

Another highlight is the ability to encapsulate everyday factory tasks:

 1class CompanyFactory extends Factory
 2{
 3    public function withMainUser()
 4    {
 5        return $this->afterCreating(function(Company $company) {
 6            $company->setMainUser(
 7                UserFactory::new()
 8                    ->forCompany($company)->create()
 9            );
10        });
11    }
12}

The poser readme has many thorough examples and details about how to use this package. You can learn more by checking out Poser on GitHub!

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