The Midwest Artisan - Nightwatch and Chill

Nightwatch and Chill

11/26/24 • 57 min

In this episode of Midwest Artisan, we discuss Laravel Nightwatch, Instantiating a class via constructor property promotion, DTOs, and practical AI features in Laravel apps.

Nightwatch QA with Matt Staufer: https://laravelpodcast.com/episodes/laracon-au-update-nightwatch-q-a
Instantiating a class via constructor property promotion: https://travisnorthcutt.com/til/php-constructor-property-promotion/

(00:00) - - Intro
(00:05) - - Nightwatch
(09:09) - - Instantiating a class via constructor property promotion
(17:54) - - DTOs: Good? Bad? Ugly?
(27:56) - - API Resources vs DTOs
(33:53) - - Do you use Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor?
(41:07) - - Dalton adding AI to Laravel projects
(44:55) - - What’s a practical AI usage for clients?
(56:30) - - Outro

In this episode of Midwest Artisan, we discuss Laravel Nightwatch, Instantiating a class via constructor property promotion, DTOs, and practical AI features in Laravel apps.

(00:00) - - Intro
(00:05) - - Nightwatch
(09:09) - - Instantiating a class via constructor property promotion
(17:54) - - DTOs: Good? Bad? Ugly?
(27:56) - - API Resources vs DTOs
(33:53) - - Do you use Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor?
(41:07) - - Dalton adding AI to Laravel projects
(44:55) - - What’s a practical AI usage for clients?
(56:30) - - Outro

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