What's New in Laravel: 8.58 - 8.68
Are you like me and find it impossible to find the time to keep up with the changes in Laravel on a weekly basis? In this series I'll try to roll them up periodically into one post.
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Laravel
Tip: Run Tinker Instantly
Laravel productivity tip! Add this little function to your bash profile to quickly execute anything with the Tinker command and get the results instantly.
Introducing Laravel Authentication Log
Laravel Authentication Log is a package which tracks your user's authentication information such as login/logout time, IP, Browser, Location, etc. as well as sends out notifications via mail, slack, or sms for new devices and failed logins.
Refactoring with Laravel's new whereRelation methods
Prior to this simple PR, we needed verbose closures to do simple queries on relationships. Now it can be done on one line with these simple helpers.
[8.x] Adds a simple where helper for querying relations
Creates the whereRelation() and orWhereRelation() helpers, and whereMorphRelation() and orWhereMorphRelation() for morph relations.
Immutable dates in Laravel
This week's 8.53.0 release includes new "immutable_date" and "immutable_datetime" casts for Eloquent!
15 Random Laravel Snippets & Methods, Part 2
I write code blocks down that I know I won't use often and will forget about. Every so often I go through them to refresh my memory.
A lightweight Laravel package to track changes over time
The Spatie team has released a new package called spatie/laravel-stats. This package is a lightweight solution for summarizing changes in your database over time.
Pruning Laravel Models
In the latest version of Laravel 8, Eloquent models now come with a Prunable and MassPrunable trait to automatically delete models based on criteria.
Pruning Laravel Models
In the latest version of Laravel 8, Eloquent models now come with a Prunable and MassPrunable trait to automatically delete models based on criteria.
Introducing Laravel Quizzes
I've been working on a small side project the last couple of weeks turning the Laravel Documentation into a suite of quizzlets for everyone to use without any accounts.
Getting started with Laravel Spotlight
Use a Mac-ish Spotlight command pallette on your apps built with Livewire.