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News / January 22, 2021

Understanding the sole() Query Builder Method

Laravel 8.23.0 introduces a sole() method to the query builder, which retrieves a single record but also has additional assertions.

Sometimes you have some markdown data that you’d like to convert into HTML for display on the web. While modern PHP packages make this simple, we can streamline this conversion even more in Laravel using a String macro!

by Paul Redmond

News / January 20, 2021

Laravel 8.23 Released

The Laravel team released 8.23 yesterday with a new sole() query builder method, enhancements to throw_if() and throw_unless(), and the latest changes in the 8.x branch:

by Paul Redmond

News / January 19, 2021

OpenAPI Initializer

OpenAPI Initializer is a Laravel package that provides a straightforward command to scaffold an OpenAPI spec file.

by Paul Redmond

News / January 18, 2021

Harpoon: Next generation time tracking and billing (sponsor)

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by Eric L. Barnes

News / January 15, 2021

Squire: Static Eloquent Model Library

Squire is a library of prebuilt static Eloquent models for common fixture data. It provides information about countries, currencies, airports and more to your Laravel app, without the use of a third-party API.

by Dan Harrin

News / January 14, 2021

Organize Laravel Applications With Actions

The Laravel actions package provides a new way to organize your Laravel applications’ logic by focusing on *actions*. Using this technique, you can execute the same class as a controller, a command, a job, and a listener.

by Paul Redmond

News / January 13, 2021

Laravel 8.22 Released

The Laravel team released 8.22 yesterday with a new event fake assertion, a collection method to reduce associative arrays to a single value, and the latest changes in the 8.x branch.

by Paul Redmond

News / January 11, 2021

Ray desktop debugging for Laravel (sponsor)

Ray is a beautiful, lightweight desktop app for MacOS, Windows and Linux that helps you debug your Laravel application faster. Instead of sending your dump statements to the browser, you can send them to the Ray, where we can display them beautifully.