Things Coming to Laravel Nova 4

A big upgrade of Laravel Nova is around the corner and here's what we know. In his talk during Laracon Taylor teased out a few improvements:

• Batched action queueing support
• dependsOn() method
• Filterable fields
• Major user interface improvements
• New field types (e.g. colors)
• Notifications

In this post by Lars Klein, he covers all these new features and gives more context around the changes announced. 

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