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News / October 06, 2020

Laravel Valet Lite

Valet Lite is a GUI-based local development platform for macOS. You can easily manage Laravel and WordPress environments without the hassle of Homebrew.

Youtube Jetstream Discussion

Some people seemed to have issues with the way it is designed, the choices made in the tech stack, and other questions. So Taylor did an impromptu live discussion on Youtube today

Three reasons to attend Sqreen Summit 2020 (sponsor)

Sqreen Summit 2020 is happening on October 29th. Running from 8am-9:30am PDT, this free virtual event is all about application security, and what that really means in today’s changing world. Featuring speakers from Sqreen, AppDynamics, Greylock, and more, Sqreen Summit 2020 will cover a range of security-related topics.

by Eric L. Barnes

News / October 02, 2020

Eager Load Pivot Relations

Arjon Jason Castro created a package for eager-loading pivot relations (BelongsToMany), which can help avoid N+1 queries on the pivot model.

by Paul Redmond

News / October 01, 2020

Assign Expiration Dates to Eloquent Models

Laravel Model Expires is a package by Mark van den Broek that assigns expiration dates to models and gives you some conveniences for working with them.

by Paul Redmond

News / September 30, 2020

Laravel 8.7 Released

The Laravel team released 8.7 this week with new rate-limiting constructors and an onError() HTTP client method, along with the latest new features, fixes, and changes in the 8.x branch.

by Paul Redmond

Laravel 8

News / September 29, 2020

Create Test Files With Artisan Make Commands Automatically

The Laravel make-testable package creates a test along with any class created using Artisan make commands.

by Paul Redmond

News / September 28, 2020

The next Laravel Worldwide Meetup is tomorrow

The next Laravel Worldwide Meetup is coming tomorrow, at 18:00 UTC, and you’ll be able to watch it live on the YouTube Channel.

by Eric L. Barnes

Meetup

News / September 25, 2020

Hacktoberfest 2020

Hacktoberfest, the month-long festival of supporting and contributing to open-source, is back again this year. To participate all you have to do is make four pull requests between October 1st and October 31st and you’ll get a free t-shirt. Limited to the first 75,000 participants.

by Eric L. Barnes

News / September 24, 2020

Automatically Detect and Rehash Passwords

Laravel Auto Rehash is a package by Samson Endale that takes care of automatically rehashing user passwords during login.

by Paul Redmond

News / September 23, 2020

Laravel 8.6 Released

The Laravel team released 8.4, 8.5, and 8.6 over the last week with plenty of new features including SQLite schema dump support, auto-handling castAsJson() values that are “Jsonable,” an artisan command for clearing queues, along with the latest new features, fixes, and changes in the 8.x branch.