Code Search with Laravel and Sourcegraph

Learn to navigate and get onboarded to Laravel codebases faster with Sourcegraph. Find code easily with the click of a button!

UnStack Africa, November, 2021

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1. Code Search With Laravel & Sourcegraph https://sourcegraph.com/search
2. Prosper Otemuyiwa Co-founder, Eden Life Developer Advocate, Sourcegraph
3. Question for you! • How do you currently search for open source code? • How do you search for private code? • How do you get code intelligence outside of your local editor?
4. What is Laravel? https://laravel.com
5. Laravel - An artisan’s framework • A Full Stack PHP Framework • An API Backend • A Vibrant and powerful community • Plethora of developer tools e.g Nova, Cashier, Forge, Envoyer, Valet, Telescope, Scout, Telescope, Sanctum, etc • Educational Platforms e.g Laracasts.com, dailylaravel.com, laravel.io etc
6. Before we continue...
7. What’s your Sourcegraph Temperature? • I’ve never heard of it. • I’ve heard of it but don’t understand it. • I understand it, but I don’t see how it’s useful. • I see how it could be fun for senior developers, but not for me. • It’s becoming more useful for me. • I use it all the time. • I could not imagine life without it. • Seriously, people are living without it? How?
8. Enter code search ... https://sourcegraph.com
9. Sourcegraph - Simple & Advanced Code Search
10. What is Sourcegraph’s Value To You? • Search over 2.1M open source & public repositories across GitHub & Gitlab. • Search private code across several repositories • Precise code intelligence • Automation of large scale code changes via Batch changes. • Code monitoring • Code insights (still in beta)
11. Sourcegraph - Code Search Patterns • Literal • Regular expression • Structural
12. Sourcegraph Search - Literal
13. Sourcegraph Search - Literal
14. Sourcegraph Search - Regular Expression
15. Sourcegraph Search - Regular Expression
16. Sourcegraph Search - Regular Expression
17. Sourcegraph Search - Structural Search
18. Sourcegraph Search - Structural Search
19. Use Cases you’ll love ...
20. Reviewing Pull Request on GitHub - How do I get code intelligence easily?
21. Pull Request on GitHub - Hover information
22. Pull Request on GitHub - Find All References
23. Find Secrets & Vulnerabilities in your codebase
24. Find exact dependencies that may be vulnerable.
25. Find deprecated function calls in your organization’s codebase.
26. Recap: Why you need Sourcegraph? • Developer velocity - Help all your developers to move fast. With code intelligence & great search, code discovery is a walk in the park. You don’t need to keep cloning repos to effectively search through them! • Onboarding new developers to a codebase - The faster developers can understand your massive codebase, the better. • Codebase refactors (batch changes) - as codebase grows, you need to refactor the codebase more intelligently.
27. Sourcegraph Search Parameters Recap
28. Learn more about code search https://learn.sourcegraph.com
29. Sourcegraph Resources! • learn.sourcegraph.com • docs.sourcegraph.com • dev.to/sourcegraph • about.sourcegraph.com/blog • info.sourcegraph.com/dev-tool-time • about.sourcegraph.com/podcast
30. Twitter: @unicodeveloper GitHub: @unicodeveloper Thank You & Please reach out!