Matt Glaman has written up a post for his site showing how you can write better Drupal code using PHPStan, the PHP static analysis tool. PHP is a loosely typed interpreted language. That means we cannot compile our scripts and find possible execution errors without doing explicit inspections of our code. It also means we need to rely on conditional type checking or using phpDoc comments to tell other devs or IDE what kind of value to expect. Really there is no way to assess the quality of the code or discover possible bugs without thorough test coverage and regular review. If you use PhpStorm, you will notice all of their helpers which analyze your code and add static analysis. [...] That's awesome. It's pretty amazing that PhpStorm and a few plugins can give us some stability in our PHP code. While the functionality in PhpStorm is useful, there are some pitfalls including the fact that everyone would have to use PhpStorm. He makes the suggestion that PHPStan can effectively replace these helpers and, with a bit of customization, provide just as much quality control for your Drupal code. He links over to a custom PHPStan extension for Drupal and an example YAML configuration. He also includes helpful tips around bootstrapping the autoloader, return typing and changes it provides for using the entity manager.

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Tomas Vortuba has a tutorial posted to his site showing you how to test private services in Symfony in unit tests for pre-4.1 Symfony installations (it has been resolved via simpler testing methods in Symfony 4.1 with the FrameworkBundle). 2 versions of Symfony are affected by this dissonance between services and tests. Do you use Symfony 3.4 or 4.0? Do you want to test your services, but struggle to get them in a clean way? Today we look at possible solutions. He starts with an example of the error you'd face if you tried to pull a service directly from the container that was marked as private. While you can specifically make it public in the yaml configuration, this potentially means doing that for all of the services you need to test. While this might work for smaller projects, it's unmaintainable for larger ones. He then shares some other options that could help resolve the issue including the one he ended up on: a compiler pass. He gets into a bit of detail on the changes this would require and where the "magic" is that lets it work.

If you are already a WordPress website owner, or you are about to build one, some skills are essential for you. One of the main and most important things is the website loading speed. Here’s the thing: website speed is something you should worry about the most because the faster your website is, the more […] The post WordPress Website Speed Optimization: Important Factors to Consider appeared first on Line25.

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Ben Sampson has posted a quick guide on his site sharing a deployment script for Laravel applications he's found useful. A good deploy script can save you time and speed up your application, and it only takes a few minutes to set one up. I have a standard deploy script which I use for almost all of my projects, which I'm going to break down and share with you. Note: This article assumes that you're using Laravel Forge. If you're not, many of the settings will be applicable, but the setup steps may be a bit different. He starts with a brief description of what a deployment script is and goes through the functionality he has included in his: switching the site to maintenance mode clearing caches clearing and optimizing routes clearing and optimizing the configuration clearing expired password reset tokens compiling front-end assets He puts it all together into a single file that's then included in the Forge deployment process. He doesn't provide other instruction as to how to use this script with another deployment method but it can potentially be used anywhere a bash script could.

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This week I mostly spent time on fixing bugs, improving a deployment workflow and on getting another new front-end project structured. One major takeaway from this was that it's good to have a proper deployment workflow in place already in the early stages of a project. To document appropriately in git what has been done in a commit instead of sleazily writing "changed [XY] because of [some arbitrary reason]". By doing so, it becomes easier for myself, or someone else, to identify bugs at a later stage.The post Web Development Reading List #123: Meaningful Git Commits and HTTP Status Codes appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

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