spatie.be VS Tailwind CSS

How do you debug your code in PHP? Do you use var_dump or dd in Laravel? Many of us also use logger to log output & figure out the problem in multiple steps. Spatie built a debugging tool called Ray that one can use to simplify the operation over dd or logger.

When in comes to Laravel packages, the guys at Spatie are probably the kings. They have hundreds of free packages you can pick from and use into your projects. Hats down for their commitment and contribution to this beautiful ecosystem.

In this article, we'll be using the Laravel Permission package from Spatie.

I'm thinking to make it as a software license, one-time payment with one year updates, as spatie.be do.

Ray by Spatie - Debugger tool

We use Oh Dear from spatie.be to check availability, dead links, certs and more for our critical FQDNs. Works perfectly fine. we also see it as a way to give something back to them in return for all their hard work in maintaining their open-source packages for Laravel.

The guys behind it work at Spatie[1] which you have probably heard of some of their packages, and Freek has a blog[2] that has a lot of PHP stuff on - lots Laravel, and lots just general new language stuff (covering PHP8 features etc)

[1] https://spatie.be

Spatie (https://spatie.be) makes a lot of great packages for Laravel. It also has a website with video courses and the code is open-sourced here https://github.com/spatie/spatie.be. I’ve learned a lot about testing from Spatie packages.

So I along with my colleague M H Hasib started working on a project of our own inspired from the API of laravel-permissions package by Spatie and the result was mongoose-permissions package.

Examples would be something like spatie.be, beyondco.de, and serversforhackers.com

Tailwind CSS

Sidekiq is already configured along with assets, tailwindsCSS.

Finally, for our front end, we’re going to be pairing Next.js with the great combination of TailwindCSS and shadcn/ui so we can focus on building the functionality of the app and let them handle making it look awesome!

You can use any frontend framework you want — react-based tooling, however, has a natural advantage as it models everything as a function of state, which can map 1:1 with the concept in Burr. In the demo app we use react, react-query, and tailwind, but we’ll be skipping over this largely (it is not central to the purpose of the post).

Tailwind CSS: A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs.

First, you need to make sure that you have a working Tailwind CSS project…

Tailwind CSS

With better CSS approaches like TailwindCSS and Vanilla Extract (which we're heavily using) it's much easier to maintain the UI and make sure it doesn't change unexpectedly. No more conflicting CSS classes, much less CSS specificity issues and much less CSS code in general.

This app was built with Svelte Kit, Tailwind CSS, and many other technologies. For a full rundown, please visit the GitHub repository