Laravel 9.38

The Laravel team released 9.38 with isolated artisan commands, conditionally set notification middleware, max exceptions for queueable notifications, and more.

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HELO - Painless local email testing

HELO is a desktop application that will change how you test your emails. No more broken links, missing images, and customer complaints.

The app exposes an SMTP server and catches the outgoing emails from your application instead of sending them to their actual recipient. This is great for local development and debugging the emails your app creates. 

Assert DOM Elements in Laravel Tests

The Laravel DOM Assertions package by René Sinnbeck adds helpful DOM assertion helpers to Laravel's TestResponse class

Featured Consultants

Need help on a Laravel project fast? Check out the companies below and see all the consultant listings. 

Spooky season darkness, transforming data, and flagging models

Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.

This episode is sponsored by Honeybadger - combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform and making you a DevOps hero.

Multi-purpose Value Objects for Laravel

Laravel Value Objects is a collection of general-purpose value objects you can use in your Laravel application.

Reaching for Facades

Facades, people seem to love them or hate them. Either way, they are a natural part of what Laravel is today. Laravel Facades aren't strictly facades, are they?

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Membersy | Austin, TX

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Staff UI Software Engineer
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Principal Javascript Engineer
Membersy | Austin, TX

Senior/Lead Laravel developer for API dev
Mayven Studios | Remote

Medior / Senior Laravel Developer
Cloudmazing B.V. | The Netherlands 

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Convergent Science | Madison, WI

PHP Developer
Life Protect 24/7 | Norfolk, VA

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Community Links

Laravel Service Container: What Beginners Need to Know
laraveldaily.com

Native UUID support in Laravel has arrived
www.dvdheiden.nl

Decouple your Laravel code using Attribute Events
jpkleemans.medium.com

Advanced Torchlight Integration with Statamic's Bard Field
blog.joe.codes

How to build your next PHP project with a touch of AI
benjamincrozat.com

Taking Laravel Nova to the next level with Typescript and Vue
rezrazi.fr

Are Your Queue Workers ... Working?
tighten.com

How to set softDeletes by default in Laravel | Tutorial | Quick Win Wednesday #QWW
youtu.be

3 Amazing Features Of Blade That You Might Not Know About
youtu.be

Trello Webhooks and Laravel
jcergolj.me.uk

Laravel Localization Guide step-by-step.
uselocale.com

Flash Errors & Old Post Data To Session - Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8
youtu.be

A Deep Dive Into Laravel Queues
www.honeybadger.io

A Package to Rate Your Models
github.com

Laravel Workflow
medium.com

Laravel DOM Assertions
github.com

ISOCodes 2.x was released
github.com

Persistent Layouts in Laravel with Laravel Splade
www.youtube.com

2 Simple Ways to Generate User Avatar in Laravel [VIDEO]
www.youtube.com

Laravel Too Many Migration Files: Is It A Problem? [VIDEO]
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Laravel Service Example: Sub-Services and Private Methods [VIDEO]
www.youtube.com

Laravel: How to build an API - Part 1
youtu.be

Setting up Laravel 8 on Linux
youtu.be

Laravel Middleware is NOT Only for Restrictions [VIDEO]
www.youtube.com

Setting up Laravel 8 on Mac with MAMP
youtu.be

Laravel User Email Change: How To Verify Again? [VIDEO]
www.youtube.com

Mailcoach Cloud has been launched: an email platform built with Laravel
freek.dev

From the archive

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Announcing LaraJobs Consultants
LaraJobs now includes a consultants directory to help you outsource a project or embed Laravel experts into your existing team.

Building a slide-over panel component with Livewire
I have been a fan of Laravel Livewire since it was first released, and I have used it many times to create great user interfaces for applications.

Laravel 9.34 Released
The Laravel team released 9.33 and 9.34 over the last week, introducing Laravel Precognition, short attribute syntax for self-closing blade components, and more

User Notifications in Livewire with Megaphone
Megaphone is a Livewire UI for Laravel-based user notifications. It uses built-in Laravel notification features to allow you to add bell icons to your Livewire app.

Faster Laravel: Surprising Optimization Tips
When we started working on our test management tool Testmo a few years ago and selected Laravel for our backend implementation, there were a couple of surprising performance issues we've noticed. In this article, let's look at our findings.

Quickly test the performance of your Laravel app with the Benchmarking helper
With the release of Laravel 9.32, a benchmarking helper was introduced, which is useful for quickly testing performance of certain parts of your application.

Last Year

Getting Started With PHP in 2022
Mohamed Said has a new video on the the Laravel YouTube channel for those getting started with PHP or wanting a refresher.

Provide Country and Other Locale Data in Laravel
Laravel World is a package providing a list of the countries, states, cities, currencies, and timezones.

Laravel 8.69 Released
The Laravel team released 8.69 with enum model casts, an enum validation rule, mask() method for Str and Stringable, and the latest changes in the v8.x branch.

Larastan v1.0 Released
Larastan released v1.0, a package to help analyze Laravel application code.

Video: Getting ready for PHP 8.1
In this video, learn about some of the deprecations and changes coming to PHP 8.1 and how to start getting your apps ready.

Two Years ago

Ibis Book Maker
Ibis is a new app from Mohamed Said that helps you publish eBooks from markdown files and includes features for generating both light and dark ebooks, as well as the ability to choose your own fonts and more.

Test your OpenAPI implementation with Spectator
Spectator provides light-weight OpenAPI testing tools you can use within your existing Laravel test suite. Write tests that verify your API spec doesn't drift from your implementation.

Social Images for PHP Packages
Beyond Code announced a new social image generator for PHP packages. It’s a free service to generate customizable social images for your GitHub projects, including Laravel packages.

IntelliJ Plugin for Alpine.js
IntellijAlpine is a plugin by Chris Morrell that brings Alpine.js support to JetBrains IDEs (including PhpStorm).

Better PHPUnit VS Code Extension
Better PHPUnit is a Visual Studio Code plugin by Caleb Porzio for running PHPUnit tests from the editor.

Lean Admin — A custom admin panel framework for Laravel (sponsor)
Lean is an admin panel package for Laravel that's focused on building customer-facing admin panels.

Eloquent Encrypted Casting
This package enables an additional layer of security when handling sensitive data. Allowing key fields of your eloquent models in the database to be encrypted at rest.