A day with Laravel - #025
News from the Laravel ecosystem on August 24, 2023 : Laravel 10.20, The State of Laravel Survey, JustSteveKing : building a forum ep. 2 , laravel-postgresql-enhanced, Laravel Form Requests
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🇬🇧 🆕 Laravel 10.20
This week's updates for Laravel :
added an Eloquent `createOrFirst()` methodUse trashed relationship even without soft deletes
Here is the justification and explanation for this point from the PR :
This would be useful in some 3rd party packages as this has become an issue where it's not possible to define the relationship such as
$this->morphTo()->withTrashed()unless all relationship usesSoftDeletestrait
Benchmark a single callable and get a result
Allow default values when merging data into an API resource
Canonical JSON path assertion
🇬🇧 The State of Laravel Survey
Don't forget to take Tobias Petry's (@tobias_petry) Laravel community survey, which takes about 5 minutes.
If you want to see what the results were for 2022 and 2021, you can visit the results page.
Battle Ready Laravel by Ash Allen
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The ultimate guide to auditing, testing, fixing and improving your Laravel applications so you can build better apps faster and with more confidence.
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🎥 Building a Forum - Getting chatty in the forum
Yesterday JustSteveKing published the next episode of the Laravel-based forum build.
And the next episode is scheduled for today. 12h00 :
🇬🇧 📦 laravel-postgresql-enhanced
I've just done Tobias's survey and as I indicated that I was using PostgreSql, I was presented with a link which I promptly checked out. Good for me. It's a package that lets you use all the power of PostgreSql in Laravel.
I thought it was absolutely essential that I share this with you.
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🇬🇧 📖 Laravel Form Requests
This article introduces you to the FormRequest component in order to improve the quality of your application and your code.
Here is Ahmed's (@ahmedash95) presentation:
In Laravel, validating forms is key to maintaining the safety and accuracy of user data. The FormRequest component simplifies this by keeping the validation rules in a dedicated class, rather than in the controller. This also makes the code neater and allows for special functions related to the request, like fetching a model or changing a data type of a field.
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