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Using 1password for Laravel environment variables

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Secret management isn't the most thrilling part of development, but it's crucial. Let's look at some options, why we chose the 1Password CLI and how to set it up.

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Laravel's report helper: a must for error handling

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For any application, handling errors gracefully is crucial for maintaining a smooth user experience. While PHP's try-catch statements are great at catching known exceptions and preventing them from crashing your application, they also make exceptions go unnoticed. What if you also want to log and report an exception without bringing your application to a screeching halt? That's where Laravel's report helper steps into the spotlight.

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Handled exceptions

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We now mark exceptions as handled when they don't crash your application.

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WeakMaps a hidden gem in PHP

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In PHP 8.0 WeakMaps were added, a mystical feature we never used until we had a complicated issue to solve.

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Prioritizing exceptions

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You can now set a priority for each exception to find out what needs to be fixed first.

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Assigning a user to an error

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In our latest release we've added support for assigning an error to a user of your team.

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Rethinking deploys at Flare

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Flare has long relied on locally running Laravel Envoy for our app deployments. However, as the application and infrastructure evolves, so do the challenges. This article documents some of our endeavors to come up with a more robust solution in 2024 while keeping our deploys as simple as possible.

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Introducing: Linear integration

  • Flare news

We're proud to share that errors on Flare can now be associated with Linear. In this post, we'll tell you all about it!

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How we stopped a DDoS attack at Laracon

  • Flare news

Laracon EU 2024 was an awesome conference, we were sponsoring with Flare and having a blast until a DDoS attack hit us.

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Flare ❤️ GitLab

  • Flare news

It is integration month! After Jira we're launching another integration: Gitlab.

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How we built our GitLab integration

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A few days ago, we added a GitLab integration. In this blog post, we'll talk about the road to that integration and our struggles.

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Our Slack integration now supports unfurling

Collaborating in Slack to solve your exceptions just got a lot better with unfurling. We'll also do a bit of a code dive into how to integrate Slack unfurling into a Laravel application.

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Why error tracking is crucial for your application

Errors will inevitably occur in your application. There is no way around it. If you notice them while working locally, you can fix them immediately. However, if your application is already live, it gets more tricky because you are not the only person triggering errors anymore. This is where error tracking software like Flare comes in handy.

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Web animation wizardry

Picture this: a bunch of developers, most of them back-enders, are given a Figma design file to turn into the new homepage for Flare. We set out to build our brand-new marketing site with a sprinkle of animations. Here is how we crafted them.

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Managing production environment variables for Laravel deployments

Secret secrets are no fun, secret secrets hurt someone... unless they're managed right in your Laravel deployment! Say goodbye to plaintext perils and .env file follies. For Flare we explored some alternative solutions like config servers, the env:encrypt command and git-secret to keep your production environment variables safe and sound. Using git-secret's with user-specific access control and PGP encryption, managing environment variables becomes a breeze.

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Flare 2.0 has been launched!

These past months, we've been busy redesigning our entire service. We're very proud to launch it today.

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Flare and Ignition now offer AI-powered solutions

Today, we're adding AI-powered solutions to Flare. This means we can suggest a solution for almost any error: the AI will likely suggest a helpful suggestion for most errors.

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Changing your larger-than-average MySQL table

We're still working on our redesign and are close to release. Today we started tackling an issue where the performance of the error page was too slow for us. In the end, we needed to change the structure of the error occurrences table, which is a lot harder than it seems.

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Optimizing Flare

We're redesigning Flare, but our application became really slow. Let's find out why and fix it!

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Fixing nested validation in Laravel

Since the early days, Laravel has had an excellent validator available, but sometimes it doesn't work as expected, especially with nested arrays.

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You might not need `useRef` for that

According to the React maintainers, React developers reach for the useEffect hook too quickly. It is far from the only hook with many naive usages.

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Grouping SQL errors

  • Deep Dives

Flare gets a lot of errors, but how to group them?

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