jaygaha

Docker Optimization: Fixing disk bloating from unit tests

If your Docker Desktop Docker.raw file is exploding in size (10GB+), and you run frequent unit tests in a Lumen/Laravel environment, the culprit is likely orphaned files in /tmp.

This guide shows how to identify the bloat and move temporary test data to RAM for a faster, self-cleaning setup.

1. Identify the culprit

When Docker Desktop shows high disk usage, first check where the data is sitting:

jaygaha

Improve your VS Code as Laravel Developer

VS Code is a powerful and versatile code editor that can be customized to enhance your development experience as a Laravel developer. Here are my favorite settings:

Open the settings.json file in VS Code by pressing Ctrl + , or Cmd + ,.

Editor Settings

Font Family

jaygaha

Remove Unused Idle Redis Items:

If an item lacks a TTL setting and is not in use, it will persist in the storage indefinitely unless deleted.

Run this command to delete stale items inside redis-cli:

eval "for _,k in ipairs(redis.call('keys', '*')) do if redis.call('object', 'idletime', k) > {SECONDS} then redis.call('expire', k, 1) end end" 0

jaygaha

GIT Pull Request (PR) Template

New PR Process Template

1. Branch Naming

• Use prefixes: feature/, bugfix/, or hotfix/ (e.g., feature/add-payment-gateway).

2. PR Title

jaygaha

In a Git repository, how to properly rename a directory/file name already pushed?

Normally, simply renaming a directory or file name does not reflect in the remote repository.

Syntax:

git mv casesensitive tmp
git mv tmp CaseSensitive

jaygaha

Delete Laravel large telescopes_entries.ibd

Delete large data table files in MySQL while using Laravel Telescopes

SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;
TRUNCATE TABLE telescope_entries_tags;
TRUNCATE TABLE telescope_monitoring;
TRUNCATE TABLE telescope_entries;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;

jaygaha

Override Model connections in Laravel for unit testing

If you have specified a different connection that should be used when interacting with a particular model.

<?php
 
namespace App\Models;
 
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

jaygaha

Soketi + Laravel Sail (Docker)

Soketi defaults to app-id, app-key, and app-secret after configuring broadcasting environment variables in the.env file. To use our own values, we should define them in docker-compose.yml as follows:

soketi:
    image: "quay.io/soketi/soketi:latest-16-alpine"
    environment:
 SOKETI_DEBUG: "1"

jaygaha

Clear Laravel caches using single command

To remove all Laravel caches, use a single artisan command, which saves you a lot of typing.

Instead of performing these individual commands,

$ php artisan cache:clear
$ php artisan config:clear
$ php artisan route:clear

jaygaha

How to retrieve the name and email address in Laravel listner event to track emails status?

Laravel provides excellent support for email sending. Sometimes you need to record the status of outgoing emails in the system. You must construct two tables: email_logs and email_log_statuses. The 'email_logs' table contains all outgoing emails, while the email_log_statuses table contains all email statuses such as sent, failed, queued, scheduled to send, and so on.

Now, create Event Listeners During the email-sending process, Laravel triggers multiple events. You can set up event listeners to record these events and update the email log accordingly.

php artisan make:listener SendEmailListener --event='Illuminate\Mail\Events\MessageSending'
php artisan make:listener SentEmailListener --event='Illuminate\Mail\Events\MessageSent'
php artisan make:listener FailedEmailListener --event='Illuminate\Mail\Events\MessageFailed'