Laravel Slack Alerts Package

 Laravel Slack Alerts Package

Laravel Slack Alerts is a package by Spatie to send a message to slack quickly. While you can set up Slack notifications in Laravel's robust notification system, sometimes all you need is a simple way to trigger a message in various slack channels:

1use Spatie\SlackAlerts\Facades\SlackAlert;
2 
3SlackAlert::message("{$user->name} just signed up for your Super Awesome SaaS! :party-parrot:");

The above message is sent via a (configurable) job, and you can also configure multiple slack webhook URLs to which you can send messages:

 1// config
 2return [
 3    'webhook_urls' => [
 4        'default' => 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXXXXX',
 5        'marketing' => 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/YYYYYY',
 6    ],
 7];
 8 
 9SlackAlert::to('marketing')
10    ->message("{$user->name} just requested a SaaS demo!");

Messages can also contain markdown and Slack emojis.

If you'd like to learn more about the background behind this package, read A package to send Slack alerts in a Laravel app quickly by Freek Van der Herten.

To get started with this package, check it out the readme and source code on GitHub.

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Complete Web Scraping toolkit for PHP

 Complete Web Scraping toolkit for PHP

Roach PHP is a complete web scraping toolkit for PHP. Not only does it handle the crawling of web content, but it also provides an entire pipeline to process scraped data, making it an all-in-one resource for scraping web pages with PHP.

The main features this package provides (among many other awesome web scraping features) include:

• Define Spiders (classes) designed to crawl web pages
• Data pipelines to process and collect data that spiders crawl
• Easily extract data from HTML and XML documents
• Interactive shell
• Spider middleware
• Write extensions to hook into/extend Roach PHP features
• Built-in Logging extension

While Roach PHP is framework agnostic and integrates it with any PHP project, there is a first-party roach-php/laravel package to start using Roach within Laravel projects easily. The Laravel package defines convenient services for Roach PHP and CLI commands to create spiders and run an Interactive Shell:

1# Create a spider class
2php artisan roach:spider LaravelDocsSpider
3 
4# Start a REPL with a given URL
5php artisan roach:shell https://laravel-news.com

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The Roach PHP documentation has full installation instructions and a guide with everything you need to get started. Also, be sure to check out roach-php/laravel to begin using Roach PHP in Laravel projects.

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Tailwind CSS Laravel Package

 Tailwind CSS Laravel Package

he Tailwind CSS Laravel package from Tony Messias wraps up the standalone CLI version of the Tailwind CSS framework for Laravel applications.

If you're not familiar with the purpose of the Tailwind CSS standalone CLI, the announcement about it explains:

Tailwind CSS is written in JavaScript and distributed as an npm package, which means you’ve always had to have Node.js and npm installed to use it.

This has made it harder to integrate into projects where using npm isn’t always common, and with tools like Rails and Phoenix both moving away from npm by default, we needed to find a way for people to use Tailwind in these projects without forcing them to adopt an entirely separate ecosystem of tooling.

Today we’re announcing a new standalone CLI build that gives you the full power of Tailwind CLI in a self-contained executable — no Node.js or npm required.

This package provides convenient commands such as installing, scaffolding, building, and minifying Tailwind builds via the standalone CLI:

 1# Download the correct CLI based on OS/CPU arch
 2php artisan tailwindcss:download
 3 
 4# Install the scaffolding (tailwindcss.config.js, app.css, etc.)
 5php artisan tailwindcss:install
 6 
 7# Build styles
 8php artisan tailwindcss:build [--digest|--minify]
 9 
10# Watch for changes during development
11php artisan tailwindcss:watch

Lastly, this package also comes with a tailwindcss() helper function to render the compiled assets instead of mix() for node.js environments:

1<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ tailwindcss('css/app.css') }}" >

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

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