Laravel Worldwide Meetup - Keeping Laravel Elegant When Business Gets Messy

This month, Andy Hinkle joins the meetup to share some approaches for keeping your Laravel applications clean when deadlines are tight and requirements keep changing. Andy will cover refactoring code, maintainable patterns, and tips to stay clean and expressive even when things get hectic! Timestamps: 2:57 - Introduction 3:40 - Community Resources: https://laravel-news.com/ / https://podcast.laravel-news.com/ - Explore the Laravel News site & podcast for the latest updates and discussions https://laravelpodcast.com/ - Laravel and PHP discussions with Matt Stauffer https://larajobs.com/ - The official Laravel Job Board https://laracasts.com - A great platform to check out to build your Laravel skills https://community.laravel.com/ - Find upcoming Laravel conferences and events here https://laravel.com/stories - Laravel is looking to feature developers from every corner of the Community - submit your stories here! 6:05 - Host Sponsor - Learn more at https://www.vehikl.com or reach out at [email protected] 6:20 - JetBrains Giveaway - please use the QR code at the end of the meetup! Enter anytime before September 2nd for a chance to win one of two JetBrains coupons 6:45 - Andy Hinkle’s Introduction 7:47 - Andy’s slides begin 10:22 - Building Software is a lot like building Roller Coasters 14:21 - Code deserves the same obsessive care 16:59 - Writing clean Laravel is easy - Keeping it clean when business moves fast and hard 22:00 - How did we get here? 23:34 - You have permission to write messy code 24:53 - Am I coding for computers, or am I coding for humans? 26:06 - Write Tests 28:20 - Refactor with Confidence 29:02 - Comments 31:13 - TODO’s 32:17 - Avoid the TODO 34:14 - Controllers 34:45 - Stick to The Resource Methods 36:24 - Form Requests 37:57 - Can you check all the places we use pending? 38:40 - The typo time bomb 41:23 - Eloquent 44:56 - No Flag Arguments 46:27 - That’s great and all, but… 46:47 - The Wrong Way to Sell Clean Code 47:09 - Stop selling process, start selling deliverability 47:39 - Pick Your battles strategically 48:04 - The elegant path forward 50:00 - Q & A with Andy 1:08:26 - End slides Thank you to our guest: - Andy Hinkle, follow him on X (https://x.com/andyhnk) & check out his website: https://andyhinkle.com/ for more info on what he’s up to! Sign up for reminders to stay up to date on the latest events @ https://meetup.laravel.com Follow our co-hosts: - Margaret Tavares on X (https://x.com/margarettavares) & LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/margarettavares/) - Dan Soppelsa on X (https://x.com/dansoppelsa) & LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dansoppelsa/) Follow us on Bluesky: - LWWM on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/laravelwwmeetup.bsky.social) Looking for work? This company is hiring: - BambooHR: https://www.bamboohr.com/careers/engineering-it-team