Laravel 9.26 Released

The Laravel team released 9.26 with a Vite asset helper, Closure support to dispatch conditionals, min and max digit validation rules, and more

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Working with Laravel Model Events

When working with Eloquent Models, it is common to tap into the events dispatched through the Models lifecycle. There are a few different ways you can do this, and in this tutorial, we walk through them and explain the benefits and drawbacks of each one.

Heroicons 2.0

The makers of Tailwind CSS released Heroicons 2.0, a set of 264 hand-crafted SVG icons for the web.

Import Laravel Vapor DNS to Cloudflare

Cumulus is an open-source package that works with Laravel Vapor to allow the user to manage their DNS records better when using Cloudflare for DNS.

Learn PestPHP From Scratch

Pest From Scratch is a free video course from Laracasts. Luke Downing walks you through the setup to becoming proficient with Pest PHP.

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