Laracon AU 2019
2019-10-31
Sydney, Australia
[Laracon AU 2018, Laracon AU 2019, Laracon AU 2023, Laracon AU 2024, Laracon AU 2025]
as the organisers put it
Laracon AU is the official Australian Laravel conference, returning to Sydney for two days of learning, growing, and mingling with the Laravel community on October 31 - November 1, 2019.
who it's for
Laravel developers, PHP developers, frontend developers, full stack developers, engineering managers, quality engineers, accessibility engineers, DevOps engineers
topics
Laravel API scaffolding; Livewire integration patterns; PHP static analysis with PHPStan and Psalm; automated refactoring with Rector; mutation testing with Stryker; Vue SPA patterns with Passport and Vuex; SPA accessibility and focus management; CSS Grid responsive layouts; structured JSON logging and tracing; behaviour driven development with Behat and Gherkin; modular monolith architecture in Laravel; expressive Eloquent collections
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Behind the Scenes of Flare | Freek van der Herten | 29m |
Flare is an open-source Laravel exception tracker maintained by Spatie; the talk explains its engineering choices for running in production at scale. It… | ||
| Testing Javascript: Building JavaScript applications you won't hate | Michael Timbs | 21m |
Concrete takeaways: use static analysis (ESLint, TypeScript) to catch errors cheaply, write fast unit tests with Jest and isolate rendering from state, prefer… | ||
| How to build an API in a day with Laravel API Boilerplate | Max Snow | 30m |
Claims a complete API scaffold with Laravel that developers can stand up in a day: a seed repo plus an optional Docker setup, an artisan make:api-resource… | ||
| Are logs a software engineer's best friend? Yes - follow these best practices | Geshan Manandhar | 29m |
Shows that logging actually shortens MTTR with concrete examples: a 403 traced to a changed OAuth key, memory unexpectedly >512 MB causing pod kills, and… | ||
| The Laravel developer's guide to Vue SPAs | Jess Archer | 30m |
Built Giftee Duck as a Vue SPA on Laravel Vapor, the talk gives concrete patterns: use Laravel Passport cookies (HTTP-only) for auth and an Axios interceptor… | ||
| Types & static analysis are good in PHP | Sam Greenwood | 25m |
Types and static analysis reduce bugs by making concrete claims about values and APIs and by catching mismatches before deploy. Tools used include PHPStan… | ||
| Making Single Page Apps accessible | Jess Budd | 28m |
Shows concrete fixes for SPA accessibility: use semantic HTML not div soup, link labels to inputs or hide them with an sr-only pattern, update document.title… | ||
| CSS Grid: What is this magic?! | Amy Kapernick | 29m |
Builds a note-taking app layout using CSS Grid—defines five equal columns and three rows, uses grid-template-columns/rows, repeat(… ), the fr unit, grid-gap… | ||
| Crafting maintainable Laravel applications | Jason McCreary | 38m |
Slides and concrete takeaways: ten tips for maintainability, concrete numbers and tools, and code-level fixes. Claims include 20,000+ Laravel apps used Shift… | ||
| Behaviour Driven Development with Laravel | Marcus Moore | 26m |
Shows a concrete BDD workflow: discovery, formulation, automation with real examples and one surprising claim — clients accept far fewer rewrites. Uses Behat… | ||
| Zero Knowledge: you can't leak what you don't know | Ben Dechrai | 38m |
Describes a concrete zero‑knowledge SaaS design for banking: profile blobs store per-account key pairs (private keys passphrase‑protected on the server)… | ||
| Reformat, Refactor, Replace: A practical guide for dealing with legacy software | Samuel Levy | 28m |
Practical playbook: enforce a style and CI rule that fails builds on PHP‑CS regression and marks files changed >20% for cleanup, run PHP‑CS‑Fixer then refactor… | ||
| Not a designer? You can make your website more accessible | Georgie Luhur Cooke | 23m |
Concrete rules and examples: set root type with rem units (browser default 16px), limit lines to about 50–60 characters, use looser line-height (1.8 instead of… | ||
| Level up: The super dev | Patima Tantiprasut | 30m |
Claim: better devs are slow selfish lazy like to argue and write bad code backed by concrete patterns — stop-and-plan instead of “smash it out,” ship MVPs to… | ||
| Expressive Eloquent collections | Tim MacDonald | 27m |
Builds concrete expressive collections by creating a model-specific collection class and wiring it via newCollection on model, so queries return an… | ||
| Managing a team building a modular monolith in Laravel | Stephen Rowe | 28m |
Company runs a Laravel modular monolith handling terabytes of data and billions of financial transaction lines, using packages that look like packages as… | ||
| Package design 101 | Marcel Pociot | 27m |
Builds a reusable Laravel package that creates a one-year membership badge and a rule engine to grant it, implements it with TDD using Orchestra Testbench and… | ||
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