Paul Redmond

Staff writer at Laravel News. Full stack web developer and author.

With Laravel 10.44 you can add Model Scopes and Observers using PHP Attributes image

With Laravel 10.44 you can add Model Scopes and Observers using PHP Attributes

The Laravel team released v10.44 this week with two Eloquent model attributes to define global scopes and observers, a new select() collection method,...

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Essential Plugins for PHPStorm Users

We've curated a collection of essential plugins for PhpStorm that we think you’ll enjoy. From our favorite theme to Laravel-specific tools to supercha...

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Five Ways to Be More Productive with Git

In this post, I've gathered some of my favorite tools to make working with Git more productive. I'll cover different types of tools, ranging from git...

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Five Tools That Will Make You More Productive on the Command Line

I’ve compiled a list of some of the CLI tools I think will make you a better, more productive developer on the command line.

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Streamed JSON Responses Added to Laravel 10.43

The Laravel team released v10.43 with support for streamed JSON responses, passing a class name to register a global eloquent scope, a new insertOrIgn...

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Ask AI Questions About Your Codebase from the CLI With Laragenie

Laragenie: An AI chatbot for Laravel with an Artisan CLI integration. Index and ask questions about your codebase to learn about your models, control...

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New Laravel 11 Apps Include a Health Check Endpoint image

New Laravel 11 Apps Include a Health Check Endpoint

As part of the release of Laravel 11, new applications include a health `/up` endpoint.

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Debug Methods Built Into Laravel’s TestResponse

Check out the cool debugging tools in Laravel's HTTP TestResponse class. They make debugging in the middle of assertion chains a breeze!

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The once() Memoization Helper is Coming to Laravel 11 image

The once() Memoization Helper is Coming to Laravel 11

The once() memoization is coming to Laravel 11 next week. Learn about this unique helper and how it can make sure you get the same result no matter ho...

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Model Casts are moving to methods in Laravel 11

Laravel 11 moves the Model Casts from a property to a method

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Laravel 11 Introduces the Dumpable Trait

Laravel 11 introduces the Dumpable trait to internally clean up code around dump() and dd(). You can also easily add these to your application and pac...

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Dive into the Streamlined Directory Structure in Laravel 11

Let's compare the big changes between the directory structure in Laravel 10 and Laravel 11.

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