open source efforts

The story behing our open source efforts

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1. The story behind our
 open source efforts
2. About me Freek Van der Herten Partner & developer at SPATIE @freekmurze https://murze.be
3. About me phpantwerp.be Dries Vints @driesvints Frederick Vanbrabant @TheEdonian
4. Since 2003 Websites, applications and webshops Team 4 developers, 1 manager Specialization Laravel development
5. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
6. Open source software We use a lot of it Nginx, Laravel, Ubuntu, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Redis, Beanstalkd, MySQL, Composer, Glide, Homestead, Flysystem, Fractal, Carbon, PHPUnit, NPM, React, jQuery, Java, SSH, Sequel Pro, BackupPC … Basically everything listed in composer.json and package.json
7. ± 80 packages on Packagist + 1 000 000 downloads A lot of Laravel specific packages, some framework agnostic ones, a few JavaScript packages We create a lot of it Open source software
8. Zend Framework 1 PHP world was pretty stale around 2012 Laravel 4: developer happiness, clear syntax Laracasts: miniseries on package development + Travis The first package
9. Browsershot: take screenshots of website programmatorically PhantomJS Working in the open People started blogging about it The first package
10. Blender: conversion from Zend Framework to Laravel A lot of functionalities that could be helpful to other developers New packages: laravel-newsletter, laravel-medialib, laravel-analytics Opensourcing Blender itself Very positive feedback from the community Beyond the first package
11. Every package gets born inside a client project Almost every client project results in a package laravel-sitemap, opening-hours, … Beyond the first package
12. Making time Time consuming Coding, writing tests, writing docs, getting the word out Maintenance, responding to issues, reviewing PRs 1000 issues, 750 PRs
13. Making time Only plan 4 days a week for client work Extra day for support, learning and opensource efforts Free time
14. The benefits of creating packages A lot of learning by coding up the package and writing tests Feedback from the community Free code! Dogfooding
15. Requirements Latest version of PHP / Laravel Package reflects the requirements of the project it gets born in Can use latest features: return type hints, null coalescing, anonymous classes PHP 5 is dead (to us) Probably hurts popularity, but nudges community to use latest versions
16. TOP 10
17. 10. laravel-permission $role = Role::create(['name' => 'writer']);
 $role->givePermissionTo('edit articles');
 $user->assignRole('writer');
 $user->can('edit articles’);
18. 9. laravel-fractal fractal()
 ->collection($books)
 ->transformWith(new BookTransformer())
 ->includeCharacters()
 ->toArray();
19. 8. laravel-tail php artisan tail
20. 7. laravel-medialibrary $newsItem->addMedia($file) ->toCollection('images'); 
 $newsItem->getMedia('images')->first()->getUrl(); 
 $newsItem->getMedia('images')->first()->getUrl('thumb');
 
 $newsItem->addMedia($bigFile) ->toCollectionOnDisk('downloads', 's3');
21. 6. db-dumper Spatie\DbDumper\Databases\MySql::create()
 ->setDbName($databaseName)
 ->setUserName($userName)
 ->setPassword($password)
 ->excludeTables(['table1', 'table2', 'table3'])
 ->dumpToFile('dump.sql');
22. 5. laravel-analytics Analytics::fetchMostVisitedPages(); Analytics::fetchVisitorsAndPageViews(); 
 Analytics::getTopReferrers();
23. 4. string string('StartMiddleEnd')
 ->between('Start', 'End')
 ->toUpper(); // outputs "MIDDLE"
24. 3. laravel-glide GlideImage::create($pathToImage)
 ->modify(['w'=> 50, 'filt'=>'greyscale'])
 ->save($pathToWhereToSaveTheManipulatedImage);
25. 2. pdf-to-image $pdf = new Spatie\PdfToImage\Pdf('file.pdf');
 $pdf->saveImage($pathToImage);
 
 collect(range(1, $pdf->getNumberOfPages()), function(int $pageNumber) use ($pdf) {
 $pdf->setPage($pageNumber)
 ->saveImage("page{$pageNumber}.jpg");
 });
26. 1. laravel-backup
27. HIGHLIGHTS OUTSIDE TOP 10
28. Laravel Menu Menu::macro('main', function () {
 return Menu::new()
 ->action('HomeController@index', 'Home')
 ->action('AboutController@index', 'About')
 ->action('ContactController@index', 'Contact')
 ->setActiveFromRequest();
 });
29. Speed up your application 
 by caching the entire response Laravel Responsecache RESPONSE CACHE REQUESTS APP 1 2
30. Laravel Translatable $newsItem = new NewsItem; // This is an Eloquent model
 $newsItem
 ->setTranslation('name', 'en', 'Name in English')
 ->setTranslation('name', 'nl', 'Naam in het Nederlands')
 ->save();
 
 $newsItem->name; // Returns 'Name in English'
 $newsItem->getTranslation('name', 'nl');
31. https://spatie.be/opensource
32. Not free!
33. POSTCARDWARE
34. Spatie
 Samberstraat 69D 2060 Antwerp
 Belgium
35. Future plans No roadmap Depends on the client projects Will probably diminish a bit as the most common problems are solved
36. In closing Working on packages has a lot of benefits It’s fun Social aspect Can be recommended to everyone
37. QUESTIONS?
38. Thank you! https://speakerdeck.com/freekmurze/open-source-efforts https://murze.be https://spatie.be/opensource