The first alpha of Tailwind CSS v3 is now released

The Tailwind team has announced the first alpha release of Tailwind v3. Some of the big new features include:

• JIT Mode being the new way Tailwind is compiled
• The new JIT CDN
• New scroll-snap utilities
• A new file: variant for styling file upload buttons

Keep in mind as an alpha release, this is meant for you to start testing it and playing around with it, but it's not recommended for production yet as things can and will break between now and the official v3 release scheduled later this year. 

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Advanced Container Package for Laravel
Advanced Container for Laravel is a package that provides syntax sugar for Laravel container calls, bindings, and more.

JSON-RPC Server for Laravel
JSON RPC Server is a package to build JSON-RPC 2.0 APIs using the Laravel framework.

Laravel 8.62 Released
The Laravel team released 8.62 with Pest PHP test stubs, maintenance mode events, a new assertion for soft deletes, and the latest changes in the v8.x branch.

Laravel OpenAPI Validator
Using an OpenAPI spec is a great way to create and share a contract to which your API adheres. This package will automatically verify both the request and response used in your integration and feature tests wherever the Laravel HTTP testing methods are used.

Laravel Worldwide Meetup
The Next Laravel Worldwide meetup was this week, with talks from Luke Downing and Aaron Francis talking about Pest PHP and Laravel Sidecar.

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