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The Laravel team released 9.11 with an array join method, methods to check the existence of validated input, opt-in deprecation logging, and more.

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Nova Log Viewer Package

Laravel Nova author David Hemphill released the Nova Log Viewer source code—a tool for viewing your application logs via the Nova UI

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Steve Bauman via Twitter: 
A super cool, alternative approach to class based query scopes that I saw on Laravel GitHub issues by @kalpaperera, using The $query->tap() method 🔥 This allows you to keep your IDE type-hints 🙌

How to get a Websites Favicons in Laravel

Favicon Fetcher is a Laravel package that can be used for fetching favicons from websites.

Laravel Jetstream: Add CRUD with Spatie Permission

I see many people struggle with customizing Jetstream after installation, and with adding more functionality. So, in this article, let's add a simple CRUD with roles/permissions, on top of Jetstream.

Aloia — A Flat-file CMS for Laravel 9

Aloia CMS is a flat-file content management system for Laravel. You don't need to rebuild your entire application to offer CMS capabilities, and you can include Aloia in your existing application.

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Community Links

How to set up PHP QA tools, run them on Docker & control them via make
www.pascallandau.com

How the PHP Middleware Pattern works and can easily be applied
doeken.org

Active Record Pattern and Intro To Laravel Eloquent - Full PHP 8 Tutorial
www.youtube.com

Get started with Laravel events and listeners
www.youtube.com

Using git-secret: A tool to stored encrypted secrets in the repository
www.pascallandau.com

What is active record pattern and how Laravel implements it with Eloquent - Full PHP 8 Tutorial
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Create a CI pipeline for dockerized PHP Apps with Github and Gitlab
www.pascallandau.com

Optimize Laravel Website By 30% - Increase Requests Per Second And Time Per Request
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Laravel Facades: What are Facades used in Laravel & how to use them in Laravel application?
youtu.be

Laravel Hashids
github.com

What's New in Livewire Tables v2.1-2.4
rappasoft.com

Aloia CMS: A flat file CMS for Laravel
aloiacms.com

Livewire SweetAlert
github.com

XR Debug
github.com

A package to manage incoming SES email events with http/s webhooks.
github.com

Favicon Fetcher - A Laravel package for getting website favicons
github.com

Laravel Factories package to write your tests easier
github.com

Eloquent Scope Assertion
github.com

From Laravel Blade to Vue.js 3: Live-Coding Demo [VIDEO]
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Carbon VS CarbonImmutable in Laravel: Avoid Potential Errors [VIDEO]
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Laravel Timestamps: useCurrent() vs Carbon::now() [VIDEO]
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Laravel Middleware Groups: How To Use Them [VIDEO]
www.youtube.com

Select2 in Vue.js 3 with Composition API [VIDEO]
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Testing Eloquent Query Scopes without Code Duplication
tkaratug.medium.com

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