Cloudflare's Turnstile Captcha for Laravel

 The turnstile-laravel package integrates Turnstile's siteverify API with a server-side Laravel application. To use Turnstile in your Laravel application, you'll need to follow the getting started to set up the client-side integration. The client integration consists of a JavaScript widget that you either render implicitly or explicitly.

Once your users initiate a secured action via the browser, it'll send a request to the server side with a cf-turnstile-response input. This package takes care of taking the POST input sent to the server side and validating the user via the siteverify endpoint:

use DerekCodes\TurnstileLaravel\TurnstileLaravel;
 
$turnstile = new TurnstileLaravel;
$response = $turnstile->validate(
    $request->get('cf-turnstile-response')
);
 
if ($response['status'] == true) {
    // Register a user
    // Complete an action
    // etc.
}

You could use Turnstile to provide a Captcha challenge for important application actions, such as login, registration, or any other interaction to want to ensure Captcha with a less intrusive style of challenge. The widget types do not include solving Captcha puzzles, but instead offer the following challenges for users:

• A non-interactive challenge.
• A non-intrusive interactive challenge (such as clicking a button), if the visitor is a suspected bot.
• An invisible challenge to the browser.

As of writing, Turnstile is an open beta and available as a free tool. Calls are limited to one million siteverify calls per month.

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub. You can learn more about Turnstile and how to set it up from Cloudflare's documenation.

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Inspect and Develop Mail Templates with Laravel Mailbook

 Laravel Mailbook is a package that lets you quickly inspect your mail templates without triggering them in your application. Given that the mail is rendered in a browser, it allows you to quickly tweak styles, text, and localization without having to fire a mailable over and over again:

This package works by installing it via composer and then running the provided mailbook:install command to set up a routes/mailbook.php route file where you can register emails.

// routes/mailbook.php
 
// This will use dependency injection if your mailable has parameters
Mailbook::add(VerificationMail::class);
 
// Use a closure to customize the parameters of the mail instance
Mailbook::add(function (): VerificationMail {
    $user = User::factory()->make();
 
    return new VerificationMail($user, '/example/url')
});

One of the coolest features I noticed when checking out this package is Variants, which you can use to provide multiple scenarios for the same mailable or notification:

// routes/mailbook.php
 
// Use a closure to customize the parameters of the mail instance
Mailbook::add(OrderCreatedMail::class)
    ->variant('1 item', function () {
        return new OrderCreatedMail(
            Order::factory()->withOneProduct()->create()
        );
    })
    ->variant('2 items', function () {
        return new OrderCreatedMail(
            Order::factory()->withTwoProducts()->create()
        );
    });

At the time of writing, Mailbook provides the following features to improve your workflow for working with mailables:

• Configure different variants using the same mailable
• Database usage with automatic rollback
• Localization support to quickly view mailables in other languages
• Quickly toggle between various size breakpoints
• Explore all mailables from the UI's left navigation menu

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

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