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🚀 Beacon is live.
A feature flag platform built for Laravel and Pennant:
✅ App + Env-based flags
✅ Fine-grained targeting
✅ Gradual Rollouts
✅ A/B testing with variants
✅ Frontend support via Beam
Using native Laravel Pennant.
🔗 https://beaconhq.io/?mtm_campaign=launch&mtm_source=mastadon&mtm_content=launch
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
Using Laravel Pennant for feature flags?
Beam brings your Pennant feature flags to your frontend. A simple TypeScript library with first-class React and Vue support.
Beam: Laravel Pennant, now in the browser.
Not sure which version works best?
Test them all.
Beacon makes it easy to run real mutli-variant A/B tests with Laravel Pennant.
Define variants. Target users. Learn what works.
Beacon, powered by Laravel and Pennant.
🔗 https://beaconhq.io/?mtm_campaign=launch&mtm_source=mastadon&mtm_content=testing
Feature launches don't need to be all or nothing.
With Beacon, roll out new features gradually — release when you’re ready.
Something not working? Roll it back. Instantly. No deploys.
Controlled rollouts, built for Laravel & Pennant.
🔗 https://beaconhq.io/?mtm_campaign=launch&mtm_source=mastadon&mtm_content=rollouts
@ianh yes, it is licensed under the FCL-1.0-MIT license, and I'll open the repo shortly after launch. If you're unfamiliar with the license, it's MIT with an added restriction to stop anyone else hosting it as a SaaS for two years (rolling 2 years).
Feature flags that just make sense.
Beacon gives you real-time control over your Laravel Pennant feature flags, across every application and environment.
No deploys. No waiting. Just flip the switch.
Join the waitlist at 🔗 https://beaconhq.io
🚀 Meet Beam — the lightweight JS library for Laravel Pennant feature flags
✅ Built for the frontend
✅ Supports React, Vue, & vanilla JS
✅ Reactively responds to flag changes
Bring your Laravel flags into your UI.
#Laravel #JavaScript #FeatureFlags #OpenSource #VueJS #ReactJS
Bonus: I now have comprehensive browser tests (on top of Feature and Unit tests).
I also created a simple artisan command to post-process the images using Imagick to make them pretty (rounded corners, consistent padding, drop shadow). I actually have light/dark mode images so I run the tests twice once in light mode and once in dark mode.
I'm hoping to migrate them to #Pest v4 browser tests once it is released, should make them even simpler and quicker.
For the last 2 weeks I've been working on product docs for #Beacon, and I quickly ran into the age-old dilemma of wanting it to be image rich, but not wanting to take on the burden of keeping those images up-to-date… so I came up with an automated solution.
I'm using Laravel Dusk to take the screenshots for me. To update every image in the docs, I just run `artisan dusk` and it will generate all the screenshots I need from the latest version. If the page changes too much, the "test" will fail.
Deployed #Laravel #Nightwatch to my first production app in under 5 minutes today (including deploys to Laravel Cloud), already seeing useful telemetry. I don't think it will be as comprehensive as a traditional APM, at least not for a while, things like distributed tracing and full stack (RUM+APM) tracing. It does get a lot right though!
With a bit of work, I now have the Beacon Metrics test suite up to 90% with tests running across SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
I think we're getting close to a 1.0 release!
In case you missed it, full documentation can be found at https://metrics.beacon-hq.dev
Feedback welcome!
When your side project spawns another side project…
Introducing Beacon Metrics, a package Laravel app metrics. Handles aggregate values, compare to previous period, and trends using a simple fluent API.
Still needs more tests before release, feedback appreciated!
In case you missed it earlier today, I'm excited to share the first video preview of Beacon, a Feature Flag Management Platform for #Laravel. Beacon provides a central place for managing Pennant feature flag configurations across all of your Laravel apps
Watch now: https://youtu.be/0yTkINxeUY4
Today, I'm excited to share the first video preview of Beacon, a Feature Flag Management Platform for #Laravel. Built on top of Laravel Pennant, Beacon provides a central place for managing feature flag configs across all of your Laravel apps & environments.
Watch now: https://youtu.be/0yTkINxeUY4
I just released Bag 2.5 with added support for Optional Properties. Really happy with how this turned out!
You can read the docs at https://bagvalueobjects.com/optionals.html
Excited for Optional support being added to Bag in the forthcoming 2.5 release! You can see the PR here with full documentation: https://github.com/dshafik/bag/pull/94
The only open question is whether to overload `Bag->has()` as a variadic, or add `Bag->hasAll()` and/or `Bag->hasAny()`. Feedback appreciated!
New feature incoming for Bag: Support for Laravel Debugbar!
If you want to try it out for yourself, I'd love some feedback! To install, run:
composer require dshafik/bag:dev-laravel-debugbar
I still need to write tests, and then I'll push this out with Bag 2.4!
Has anyone successfully found a way to make #Lemmy as valuable as reddit for content discovery. I mainly want tech — with a focus on PHP/Laravel/Web — and politics.
This weekend saw the release of Bag 2.1, and alongside if I have pushed out versioned documentation with a "What's New" and "Upgrade" docs for 2.x. I plan to keep separate docs for each 2.x release til 3.x, when I will compress them like 1.x:
✨ https://bagvalueobjects.com/whats-new.html
⬆️ https://bagvalueobjects.com/upgrading.html
Going live now for a coding session on Beacon!
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/daveyshafik