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

Mar 17, 2025

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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.

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Do you know Mastering Laravel ?

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Custom Community Laravel Starter Kits

Christoph talks today about Custom starter kits for Laravel 12

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Laravel Advanced String Package

Tested, community maintained, supercharged Laravel string functions.

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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 to getDatabase 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.

» See release note

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