Match Expression is Coming to PHP 8

The Match Expression v2 RFC has passed and targets the stable release of PHP v8.0 this year. Learn more about the match expression and what it brings to PHP 8!

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Laravel Worldwide Meetup

The first Laravel Worldwide Meetup was this week and the speakers are as follows:

Joseph Silber – Doing more with less: Lazy Collections in Laravel

A deep dive into Lazy Collections. We’ll learn what they are, how they work under the hood, and how to use them to vastly decrease your app’s memory footprint.

Mohamed Said – The Power Of Laravel Queues

In this talk, Mohamed will walk you through some cool features of the Laravel queue that makes it really powerful. We start with simple background tasks and progress our way to more complex workflows.

Now that the event is over you can watch the talks at any time. 

Laravel Playground

Laravel Playground is a new free service from BeyondCode that allows you to try out Laravel code directly in your browser. You get full IDE auto-completion and can quickly try out all of Laravels features. It even includes popular Laravel packages, so you can quickly try out Laravel Debugbar, or get started writing your first Livewire component.

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Laravel Deletable Trait

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The Mighty Illuminate Request Object

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