🚀 Laravel Prompts CLIs, Profanify, and Redactable Models

Hey there! 👋

I have a few articles for you this week. I hope you enjoy them!

⚡ Building a CLI with Laravel Prompts

As Laravel web developers, we often need to build Artisan commands for our applications. But interacting with the console can sometimes feel a little cumbersome. Laravel Prompts is a package that aims to improve this experience by providing a simple approach to user-friendly forms in the console.

In this article, we'll take a look at Laravel Prompts and some of its features that you can use. We'll then build a simple GitHub CLI client using Prompts to demonstrate how to use it in your applications. Finally, we'll show how to write tests for your Prompts commands.

By the end of the article, you should understand how to use Prompts in your applications and how to test them.

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🔥 Redact Model Fields in Laravel

I've just released a brand new package: Redactable Models! 🎉

It's a Laravel package that you can use to redact, obfuscate, or mask fields from your models in a consistent and easy way.

When building web applications, you'll often need to keep hold of old data for auditing or reporting purposes. But for data privacy and security reasons, you may want to redact the sensitive information from the data that you store. This way, you can keep the rows in the database, but without the sensitive information.

This package allows you to define which models and fields should be redacted, and how they should be redacted.

In this article, we're going to cover what the package does and how you can use it in your Laravel apps. I've also recorded a video showing you how to use the package!

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🧼 Profanify: Prevent Profanity in Your PHP Codebase

We've all been there. You're working on a project, and you just can't seem to get the code right. You're getting frustrated and you're starting to lose your cool. Then you're tempted to leave a comment in your code that expresses your frustration.

It's really easy to want to vent your frustrations in your code. Not only can it help you express your feelings, but you can highlight to the next developer that the code is a bit of a mess and that you couldn't quite get it right.

But leaving profanity in your code is never a good idea. It's unprofessional and can be offensive to others, especially if you're leaving the comment on someone else's code. In fact, keeping your cool when auditing someone else's code is something I've written about before.

In this Quickfire article, we're going to look at a package called Profanify (by Jon Purvis) that can help you find and remove profanity from your PHP code.

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