Laracon Online recap 

Laracon Online 2022 is now in the books, and we had a great lineup of speakers this year.  If you missed it, you can catch up with the videos on Youtube. Two talks you shouldn't miss is the one from Caleb and Taylor: 

• 01:40:14 The future of Livewire - Caleb Pros
• 04:51:59 Laravel Update - Taylor Otwell

Of course, all the other ones are great too, and here is the complete schedule with a link to each session for easy browsing: 

• 00:00:00 Waiting
• 00:04:57 Ian's Intro
• 00:14:34 Not Quite My Type - Kai Sassnowski
• 00:55:32 Kubernetes and Laravel - Bosun Egberinde
• 01:40:14 The future of Livewire - Caleb Porzio
• 02:33:01 Sustainable Self-Care - Marje Holmstrom-Sabo
• 02:47:39 Let's Get Physical: Database Internals and You - Tim Martin
• 02:58:32 Deep Dive into Carbon - Ralph J. Smit
• 03:19:10 UI and Component testing with Cypress - Marcel Pociot
• 03:35:35 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Laravel Community - Caneco
• 03:53:19 Abstracting too early - Matt Stauffer
• 04:51:59 Laravel Update - Taylor Otwell
• 06:02:23 Database Performance for Application Developers - Aaron Francis
• 06:45:15 Christoph Dreams of Simple Code - Christoph Rumpel
• 07:31:07 Is there any problem Git interactive rebase can't solve? - Rissa Jackson
• 07:48:45 Meaningful Mentorship - Alex Six
• 08:05:10 I shall say… err, define this only once - Freek Van der Herten
• 08:23:41 I can't believe it's not local! - Chris Fidao
• 08:38:58 Valid Variants of Validating Validation - Luke Downing
• 08:57:51 A Grab Bag of Useful Tips - Colin DeCarlo
• 09:15:14 Browsers are Magical Creatures - Stephen Rees-Carter

Also, don't forget about the Laracon swag with discounts, raffles, and more. Many of these expire soon! 

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Laravel Bootcamp

Laravel Bootcamp is a brand new learning site from the Laravel team. It's a "choose your own adventure" style while building a new Laravel app with Vue or React.

Following the tutorial, you will begin by installing Laravel, Breeze, and then jumping right into making models, routes, and everything else.

This new site was announced yesterday at Laracon Online, and the goal is to help developers new to the framework get up and going quickly. Check out Laravel Bootcamp and go through the tutorial.

Laravel 9.30 Released

The Laravel team released 9.29 and 9.30 with a read-only filesystem option, a scoped filesystem driver, the ability to discard model changes, and more.

Laravel Receiver

Laravel Receiver is a drop-in webhook handling library for Laravel. It makes handling incoming webhooks easy, with built-in support for:

• GitHub Webhooks
• Hubspot Webhooks
• Postmark Webhooks
• Slack Events API
• Stripe Webhooks

The built-in providers are also secured using each provider's prescribed verification method (i.e., signatures). This package takes the pain out of the setup and boilerplate about handling the request, letting you focus on the code for handling webhooks.

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Creating Installer Commands for Laravel Packages

Typically, when installing a Laravel community package, the README will have instructions for publishing config files, migrations, etc. With Laravel Package Tools, you can now define a dedicated install command to automate all that:

Using a dedicated install command, your users only need to run one command instead of manually doing everyday installation tasks.

Laravel Model Info 

Laravel Model Info is a package to get information on all the models in your Laravel project. This package is helpful if you're building functionality where you need to programmatically inspect models.

Community Links

How to Integrate Swagger with a Laravel Project for API Documentation
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Learning Laravel: Assets and Authentication
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Advanced PHP 8 features that make it useful for more than web development
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What is Laravel Pint Package?
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What is Laravel? A complete and simplified explanation.
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Introducing Signal Traps - New In Laravel 9.28.0 - 4 New things were added.
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Laravel Telescope: Important Helpful Tool You Need to Know More About
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VILT stack framework
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Laravel Open Graph dynamic images
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Laravel Notification Event Subscriber
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Receiver: the Socialite for webhooks
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Laravel Model Finder
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Laravel Stable Diffusion
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Sneat Free Bootstrap Laravel Admin Template
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Creating installer commands for Laravel packages
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Getting information about all the models in your Laravel app
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Laravel Roles and Permissions: Spatie, AuthorizeResource and Super Admin [VIDEO]
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Logging Laravel Auth Events: Logged In-Out, Register, etc. [VIDEO]
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