testing Keep local storage in Cypress When using cypress for tests, your session and local storage data will be cleared after every test. This is a good default, but might make the tests slower as the login is one
security Slow user creation because of password generation in fixtures Creating user for tests can be really time consuming due to the password hashing. This is no accident.The hashing has to be slow. This is no bug, but a feature. Slow in
symfony Cors Listener in Symfony backend When working with a frontend and backend on different domains I run into issues with the cors headers. Here's a way to solve them for a Symfony backend.A setup might look like
console Jump to beginning of line in iTerm When working with iTerm or a console in general I hate it that I can't jump words forward or backwards with ALT + Arrow keys. Now I found a way to do this.And
symfony Serialize null as undefined with Symfony serializer There are two popular packages when for serialization when working with Symfony or with PHP in general. One serializes null as undefined and one as null. The one serializing it as undefined by
phpunit To many open files in PHPUnit Running bigger projects with more moving components leads to more files being used at one time by the system. This is in issue for example when running PHPUnit.An error message you might
doctrine Use inner join in doctrine query builder Usually all joined entities are automatically joined and returned by Doctrine. Depending on the fetch (EAGER or LAZY). This is done directly or not. But when you want to filter depending on joined
css Overflow text with dots in CSS When using a column layout and are not controlling the content, it can happen, that the content get's too long and kills the layout. To prevent this you can cut the content and
doctrine Define default value in Doctrine annotation Setting defaults on the database level makes a lot of sense to prevent the chance of issues arising in the application. Having the configuration for it in the Doctrine annotations makes things easier
php Run only one test in PHPUnit While writing your tests, you of course don't want to run your whole test suite again and again to check if one tests runs through. There are ways to group tests with @group
mysql Truncate table with foreign key constraints When handling MySQL migrations or other testing instances on databases you often want to delete data from the database. But of course your applications uses constraints. Why wouldn't it, it makes the application
symfony Catch all routing in Symfony When building single page applications, I still base them on top of symfony as I want to use the Symfony profiler. The whole routing should still take place in the frontend, so I
php Filter array content with whitelist in PHP Request validation in PHP is quite easy. There are awesome libraries like beberlei/assert. But most functions are geared towards validating if a specific content is available and in the right format. But
monitoring API Monitoring with Postman collection runner (Newman) Postman is a great tool for API development, but I also use it to do part of my monitoring. The guys from Postman offer a monitoring service, but it's quite pricy if you
security Generate a new JWT public and private key JSON Web Tokens are becoming more and more common in single page applications and I'm also using them in multiple projects. But I also forget how to generate a new token (private and
symfony Create new JWT when user updates email address (username) Using JWT for a single page application in combination with Symfony in the backend is great when using the bundles lexik/jwt-authentication-bundle and gesdinet/jwt-refresh-token-bundle. lexik/jwt-authentication-bundle provides general JWT based authentication. gesdinet/
vue.js Axios interceptor to refresh JWT token after expiration JSON Web Tokens expire pretty regularly. That's kind of what they are made for. But our API calls shouldn't fail because of it. So we need an interceptor who deals with this.When
php Generate strong and user friendly password in PHP There are multiple ways to generate a very secure password, but I only found a small set of those is also user friendly. Meaning there are no ambiguous characters such as i, l,
mysql Find JSON element in MySQL MySQL isn't really build for searching through JSON data. PostgreSQL seems to be way better in this regard. Nether the less it is possible to search since MySQL 5.7.To do so
vue.js Send form data with axios (Vue.js) Sending JSON is the default for axios and doesn't need to be mentioned. When I've implemented a JWT login (which needed form data to be send), I thought it will just need a
DateTime ParamConverter in Symfony controller Param converters are a very useful feature in Symfony when working with controllers. The default setup does not support dates to be converted. But Sensio does.By installing the sensio/framework-extra-bundle with composer
php Order values in German alphabetical order with PHP Order numerical values or things like dates is no problem with PHP. Even ordering by alphabet isn't that big of a deal. But when you use another language then English, things get interesting.
php Force composer to use specific PHP version Sometimes you have a different version of PHP installed on your machine or setup as on the live server. To prevent the installation of packages which won't be compatible on the live server,
vue.js Using Vue.js template delimiters in twig When using Vue.js and rendering templates in twig you're running into the issue that both use the same delimiter. Luckily you can define the symbols which are used as delimiters:new Vue(
javascript Improve page loading performance when using jQuery For the first version of projects I usually use a CMS with a theme. You get most of the content very fast and are still able to build a great API in the
