A day with Laravel - #054
Laravel Ecosystem News for March 17, 2025 : Http::record(), Mastering Laravel, Custom starter Kits, Laravel Advanced String Package and Laravel MongoDB 5.2 Released are discussed
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Monitor HTTP Interactions with Laravel's New Http::record() Method
An article proposed by Harris Raftopoulos about new Http:record() method :
Laravel's HTTP client just got more testable with the Http::record() method, allowing you to monitor real HTTP requests while maintaining actual communication with external services.
Do you know Mastering Laravel ?
First, it’s not a sponsored post.
There are a lot of great actors to follow in Laravel community and Joel is one of them, with no doubt. Every day a tip on Laravel based on real situation.
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Custom Community Laravel Starter Kits
Christoph talks today about Custom starter kits for Laravel 12
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Laravel MongoDB 5.2 Released
The MongoDB team is pleased to announce the release of version 5.2.0 of the Laravel MongoDB Library.
Some keywords of new functionalities (directly picked up from release note) :
New Features and Enhancements
Atlas Search and Vector Search, integration with new methods in the query builder and schema builder
Laravel Scout support, to use MongoDB Atlas as a search engine.
An optimized session driver to store sessions in MongoDB
Rename
Connection::getMongoDB
togetDatabase
for naming consistency.
Compatibility Updates
Laravel 12 support
MongoDB Extension 1.21: This release requires to update the mongodb extension to the version 1.21
Support for MongoDB 4.0 Deprecated: Future versions will require MongoDB 4.2 or later.
Support for
spatie/laravel-query-builder
v6
Be careful, to use this version, you need to upgrade of the mongodb
extesion to version 1.21 and the mongodb/mongodb
library to version 1.21.
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