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State Pattern vs. Enums in Modern PHP
Dev.to · CodeCraft Diary 2w ago
State Pattern vs. Enums in Modern PHP
In many PHP and Laravel applications, entity lifecycles start simple. An Order can...
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Trunk-Based Development: From Chaos to Flow
Dev.to · CodeCraft Diary 3w ago
Trunk-Based Development: From Chaos to Flow
If you’ve followed the first two parts of this series, you know the hard truth: most teams aren’t...
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How Mutation Testing Exposes the Truth (PHP 2026 Edition)
Dev.to · CodeCraft Diary 4w ago
How Mutation Testing Exposes the Truth (PHP 2026 Edition)
You've got 85% code coverage. Your CI pipeline is green. You ship to production — and things break in...
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Trunk-Based Development: Your Pull Requests Are Still Too Big
Dev.to · CodeCraft Diary 1mo ago
Trunk-Based Development: Your Pull Requests Are Still Too Big
Most teams don’t realize this, but their biggest bottleneck isn’t architecture, tech stack, or even...
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Laravel Testing Mistakes That Make Your Tests Useless
Dev.to · CodeCraft Diary 1mo ago
Laravel Testing Mistakes That Make Your Tests Useless
Testing in Laravel can feel straightforward at first. You write a few tests, run php artisan test,...
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Fat Controller to Clean Architecture in Laravel (Step-by-Step Refactor)
Dev.to · CodeCraft Diary 1mo ago
Fat Controller to Clean Architecture in Laravel (Step-by-Step Refactor)
Refactoring a fat controller in Laravel is one of the most impactful improvements you can make in a...
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Trunk-Based Development: Why Most Teams Think They Use It (But Don’t)
Dev.to · CodeCraft Diary 2mo ago
Trunk-Based Development: Why Most Teams Think They Use It (But Don’t)
Trunk-Based Development sounds simple. No long-lived branches. Frequent merges. Small, incremental...
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Laravel Queue Testing: What Most Developers Get Wrong
Dev.to · CodeCraft Diary 3mo ago
Laravel Queue Testing: What Most Developers Get Wrong
Queues are where “it works on my machine” quietly turns into production incidents. Emails are sent...
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Contract Testing External APIs in PHP with Pact (Real Laravel Example)
Dev.to · CodeCraft Diary 3mo ago
Contract Testing External APIs in PHP with Pact (Real Laravel Example)
Testing integrations with external APIs is one of the most fragile parts of any web application. In...
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Builder Pattern in PHP/Laravel: Building Clean and Flexible Order Objects
Dev.to · CodeCraft Diary 3mo ago
Builder Pattern in PHP/Laravel: Building Clean and Flexible Order Objects
In practice, orders in e-commerce systems often evolve over time, which makes them a perfect...
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Writing Maintainable Feature test(Real Laravel example)
Dev.to · CodeCraft Diary 6mo ago
Writing Maintainable Feature test(Real Laravel example)
One of the things I enjoy the most about Laravel is how it encourages writing clean, testable...
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Feature Testing in PHP: Ensuring the Whole System Works Together
Dev.to · CodeCraft Diary 7mo ago
Feature Testing in PHP: Ensuring the Whole System Works Together
Feature tests are where the magic of real-world validation happens. While unit tests ensure each LEGO...
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