Laracon Online is now accepting speaker submissions

 Laracon Online is returning on September 14th, 2022, and will continue to be streamed free for everyone on YouTube!

This event will feature the following speaking slots:

• Eight main presentations that are 40 minutes.
• Four lightning talks that are 15 minutes.

If you'd like to share your knowledge with 30,000+ fellow, Laravel developers submit your speaker application

Laracon Online also has a few sponsors spots remaining and would be a great way to get your brand in front of tens of thousands of Laravel developers.

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Statix Server is an Object-oriented Wrapper for PHP's Built-in Server

 Statix Server is an object-oriented wrapper around PHP's built-in server. Once you install the composer package, getting started is as minimal as the following:

1use Statix\Server\Server;
2 
3require_once './vendor/autoload.php';
4 
5Server::new()->start();
6 
7// or
8(new Server)->start();

The server class has an array-based configuration of options, or you can use the class' fluent API:

 1Server::new()
 2    ->usePHP('path')
 3    ->onHost('localhost')
 4    ->onPort('8080')
 5    ->root('./content')
 6    ->useRouter('./router.php')
 7    ->withEnvVars([
 8        'APP_DYNAMIC_ENV' => 'server'
 9    ])->withoutEnvVars([
10        'APP_KEY',
11    ]);

It also supports use-cases like capturing server output, running in the background and programmatically stopping the server.

You can learn about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub. This package uses PestPHP if you want to see an example in the wild of using Pest for testing!

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Learn PestPHP From Scratch

 Pest From Scratch is a free video course from Laracasts. Luke Downing walks you through the setup to becoming proficient with Pest PHP.

This course is 100% free (it doesn't even require signup) and includes eight episodes that cover installation through more advanced features:

• Installation and Setup
• Lifecycle Hooks
• Expectations
• Expectations++
• Datasets
• Combined Datasets
• Groups, Exceptions, and Skipping Tests
• Coverage and Parallel

At the end of this course, you'll be ready to use Pest PHP in your Laravel projects and packages. Check out this fantastic course (and excellent intro) today and get productive with the hottest testing framework for PHP.

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Heroicons 2.0 are here

 The makers of Tailwind CSS released Heroicons 2.0, a set of 264 hand-crafted SVG icons for the web. These icons are redrawn from scratch and feature a 24px solid set:

You can either copy the SVG straight from the Heroicons website into your project, or use the first-party React and Vue libraries:

 1// React JS - npm install @heroicons/react
 2import { BeakerIcon } from '@heroicons/react/24/solid'
 3 
 4function MyComponent() {
 5  return (
 6    <div>
 7      <BeakerIcon className="h-6 w-6 text-blue-500"/>
 8      <p>...</p>
 9    </div>
10  )
11}

And here's what the Vue 3 integration looks like:

 1<template>
 2  <div>
 3    <BeakerIcon class="h-6 w-6 text-blue-500"/>
 4    <p>...</p>
 5  </div>
 6</template>
 7 
 8<script>
 9// Vue 3 - npm install @heroicons/vue
10import { BeakerIcon } from '@heroicons/vue/24/solid'
11 
12export default {
13  components: { BeakerIcon }
14}
15</script>

Heroicons 2.0 also has a Figma file, which you can use in your design projects. Get started today by checking them out on heroicons.com.

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