Keep Logs Tidy With the Log Cleaner Package for Laravel

 Laravel Log Cleaner is a package by Joost van Veen for keeping your log files small and tidy. While there are various ways to keep log file size tidy in production, this package uses the built-in Artisan console that you can run manually, via cron directly, or through the scheduler:

1$schedule
2    ->command('logcleaner:run', [
3        '--keeplines' => 5000,
4        '--keepfiles' => 14
5    ])
6    ->daily()
7    ->at('01:00');

Log cleaner provides configurations you can set in your environment or override in the command. The main configuration features and console options include:

• Specify the number of files to keep
• Specify the number of lines to keep
• Exclude pattern to exclude file patterns from processing
• Log file trimming (enabled by default, configurable)
• Configurable file deletion enabled/disabled

Here are some console command examples from the readme that give you a nice visualization of how to use this console command:

 1# Get info about the command and options
 2php artisan logcleaner:run --help
 3 
 4# Trim big log files and delete old log files
 5php artisan logcleaner:run
 6 
 7# Pass the number of lines to keep when trimming log files. Overrides the config setting.
 8# This overrides the default set in config
 9php artisan logcleaner:run --keeplines=10000
10 
11# Pass the number of files to keep when deleting old log files. Overrides the config setting.
12# This overrides the default set in config
13php artisan logcleaner:run --keepfiles=7
14 
15# Run without actually cleaning any logs
16php artisan logcleaner:run --dry-run

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

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Using Laravel translations in Javascript with the Laravel Translations Loader

 Have you ever wanted to use the same Laravel translations you use on the back-end in your front-end code?

Laravel Translations Loader is a webpack loader that enables you to load your Laravel translations into your javascript bundle.

Instead of doing HTTP requests to fetch translations, the package enters in the middle of the asset compilation process and translates your PHP translation files (JSON and PHP) into a JSON object so you can use however you like.

It works out of the box with packages like vue-i18n or with a few configuration tweaks with the popular i18next package.

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The first step, is to install the package using NPM or Yarn.

1npm install @kirschbaum-development/laravel-translations-loader --save
2yarn add @kirschbaum-development/laravel-translations-loader --save

Or, by using Yarn.

1npm install @kirschbaum-development/laravel-translations-loader --save

Basically, in your javascript file, you just need to include the following line to import your language bundle.

1import languageBundle from
2'@kirschbaum-development/laravel-translations-loader!@kirschbaum-development/laravel-translations-loader';

This will load and parse all your language files, including PHP and JSON translations. The languageBundle will look something like this:

 1{
 2    "en": {
 3        "auth": {
 4            "failed": "These credentials do not match our records."
 5        }
 6    },
 7    "es": {
 8        "auth": {
 9            "failed": "Estas credenciales no coinciden con nuestros registros."
10        }
11    }
12}

Along with all other translations you may have on your translations folder.

There are options for loading either just PHP or JSON translations files, as well as adding a namespace between the lang keys and the actual translations that some packages require. You can check the different loading options on the readme of the project. And please fill out an issue if you have any troubles or suggestions.

Example using vue–i18n

Notice you can directly pass the languageBundle object as a parameter into the VueI18n constructor.

1import languageBundle from '@kirschbaum-development/laravel-translations-loader!@kirschbaum-development/laravel-translations-loader';
2import VueI18n from 'vue-i18n';
3Vue.use(VueI18n);
4const i18n = new VueI18n({
5    locale: window.Locale,
6    messages: languageBundle,
7})

And on any vue component, you can just use the $t function, like the following example:

1<template>
2    <span>{{ $t('auth.failed') }}</span>
3    <!-- this will output the same as {{ trans('auth.failed') }} using Laravel -->
4</template>

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