Larastan v1.0 Released

Larastan v1.0 Released

After initially writing about Larastan back in 2018, we are pleased to see the release of Larastan v1.0 this week, a package to help analyze Laravel application code:

Larastan is a development dependency that adds static analysis to Laravel, improving developer productivity and code quality. At the core, it's a PHPStan wrapper for Laravel and helps you find errors in your code through static analysis. It helps catch bugs before you even write tests for the code:

• Adds static typing to Laravel to improve developer productivity and code quality
• Supports most of Laravel's beautiful magic
• Discovers bugs in your code without running it

You can use Larastan to analyze application code as well as use it to analyze your Laravel packages.

Getting started in your new or existing Laravel project is as easy as installing the package and configuring PHPStan:

1composer require nunomaduro/larastan --with-dependencies --dev
2 
3# after setting up a `phpstan.neon` file in the root
4# of your project, you can analyze your code:
5./vendor/bin/phpstan analyse

If you find this package useful, consider sponsoring the developers Nuno Maduro and Can Vural on GitHub. The Larastan project page has links to all the ways you can sponsor their work.

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub. I'd recommend checking out the rules specific to Laravel applications, with configurable options.

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You can see the complete list of new features and updates below and the diff between v0.7.15 and v1.0.0. Also, the following release notes are directly from the changelog:

v1.0.0

Added

• Dynamic method return type extension for Enumerable::filter in #981
• New rule to check for relation existence in #985
• rescue parameter of rescue function now accepts the Throwable by @sebdesign in #989
• New CheckJobDispatchArgumentTypesCompatibleWithClassConstructorRule rule in #991
• Added non-empty-string types in stubs. c5b81cf

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Log Routes Statistics for Users and Teams

Log Routes Statistics for Users and Teams

 Laravel Route Statistics is a package by @bilfeldt to log stats about users and teams usage of routes in a Laravel application. This package lets you:

• See how much each user uses the application and what part of the application they use
• See if any unauthenticated users are making a lot of requests to your application

Using Laravel's middleware, the package allows you to enable route logging globally, or you can enable it for individual route groups and routes via middleware:

1Route::middleware(['routestatistics'])
2    ->get('/example', /* ... */);

Finally, you can even enable logging via a request macro:

1public function index(Request $request)
2{
3    $request->routeStatistics();
4    // ...
5    return view('example');
6}

This package logs requests to the database with the following fields by default:

• user_id - the user id if authenticated
• team_id - the team id associated with the request (if available)
• method - the HTTP method
• route - the route name (if available) or the route URI
• status - the HTTP status code
• ip - the request IP
• date - the date of the request stored as a datetime

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

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Create and Send Digest Emails in Laravel

Create and Send Digest Emails in Laravel

The Laravel Digest package is a simple way to convert your emails into configurable digests. You can create and send digest emails using various configurable frequency types. For example, using this package, you could send a digest email to the site administrator for every 100 user registrations, a daily digest of all errors logged, or a monthly newsletter for all the posts created.

To use this package, you'll define an observer (i.e., when a new user gets created) that will add a record to the digest:

 1use Hmones\LaravelDigest\Facades\Digest;
 2 
 3public function created(User $user)
 4{
 5    $batchId = 'userCreated';
 6    $mailable = UserCreatedMailable::class;
 7    $data = ['name' => $user->name];
 8    // Frequency can take values such as:
 9    // daily, weekly, monthly, custom, or an
10    // integer threshold (10, 20, 30, etc.)
11    $frequency = 'custom';
12 
13    Digest::add($batchId, $mailable, $data, $frequency);
14}

The Laravel Digest package will take care of everything else from this point on, sending emails once the frequency is met.

To get started with this package, check out the source code on GitHub, including installation instructions and usage details.

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