Taylor Otwell’s Keynote at Laracon US 🗣️, Everything We Know about Pest 3 🧪, Don’t Ask Permission To Do Your Job Correctly 💼, The @once directive 💡

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Laravel

🗣️ Taylor Otwell’s Keynote at Laracon US (X thread)

Taylor Otwell unveiled several exciting updates in his keynote at Laracon US. Highlights include Laravel Cloud, a fully managed platform tailored for Laravel applications, and a first-party VS Code extension. Additionally, he introduced deferred functions for post-response processing, a new concurrency API for parallel processing, and Inertia 2.0, including features for asynchronous data loading and prefetching. For a deeper dive, watch the full talk here.

Streamlining Data Processing with Laravel's Pipeline Pattern (2 minute read)

Explore the Pipeline pattern in Laravel for processing data through a sequence of operations. This guide covers basic usage, creating steps, and implementing it in controllers for cleaner, modular code.

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Tip of the Week

The @once directive in Blade ensures that a block of code is only rendered once per request, even if the directive is included multiple times. This is particularly useful for including scripts or styles that should only appear once on the page.

@once
    <script src="/js/some-library.js"></script>
@endonce

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PHP

🧪 Everything We Know about Pest 3 (3 minute read)

Nuno Maduro introduces Pest v3.0 at Laracon US 2024, featuring task management, architecture presets, and mutation testing. These enhancements promise improved consistency and deeper test coverage without backward compatibility issues.

PHPStan 1.12: Road to PHPStan 2.0 (4 minute read)

PHPStan 1.12 introduces precise type inference for regular expressions and enhanced PHPDoc tags type checks, preparing users for PHPStan 2.0 with its "Bleeding Edge" features and PHP 8.4 runtime support.

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Package of the Week

Laravel Abuse IP

This week’s featured package is designed to help you protect your Laravel applications from malicious traffic by checking IP addresses against the AbuseIP database.

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Misc

💼 Don’t Ask Permission To Do Your Job Correctly: Avoiding The Technical Debt Trap (8 minute read)

Mario Bittencourt discusses the pervasive issue of technical debt, emphasizing the importance of approaching development with a strategic mindset to maintain clean code. He encourages developers to make thoughtful, informed decisions without needing explicit permission, highlighting effective communication with stakeholders as crucial to managing and mitigating technical debt effectively.

Git Stashing Explained (2 minute read)

Learn how to use Git's stashing feature to temporarily save uncommitted changes, allowing you to switch tasks without losing work. Includes commands for stashing, applying, and removing stashes.