Laravel News·5yAnnouncing the PHP Foundation
JetBrains, Automattic, Laravel, Acquia, Zend, Craft CMS, Private Packagist, Tideways, and PrestaShop are members. Nikita Popov, one of the key contributors, has decided to switch his focus away from PHP to LLVM. The primary task of the Foundation will be to fund developers to work on PHP.
Laravel News·5yThe first alpha of Tailwind CSS v3 is now released
Adam Wathan has announced the first alpha release of Tailwind v3. The Tailwind team has been working hard to add some awesome new features and make the existing features even better. Some of my favorite new features include: JIT Mode, scroll-snap utilities, and styling file upload buttons.
Laravel News·5yA look at what is coming to Laravel 9
Laravel v9 will be the next LTS version of Laravel, and it will be coming out sometime in early 2022. Laravel 9 will feature a new Query Builder Interface, and you can see this merged PR for all the details. More new features and announcements will be announced as those get out.
Laravel News·4yGetCandy E-commerce Package for Laravel
GetCandy is a Laravel package that brings e-commerce functionality to Laravel. The core package provides models for working with e- commerce, such as Cart objects. The documentation will guide you through installation, configuration and provide a guide to learn how to work with this project.
Laravel News·5ySublime Text 4
The first stable release of Sublime Text 4 is now released and available. It now works with Apple Silicon and Linux ARM64, and includes a lot of great new features. TypeScript, JSX and TSX Support is now shipped by default. Memory usage has been reduced, and load times are faster than ever.
Laravel News·5yLarastan v1.0 Released
Larastan is a PHPStan wrapper for Laravel. It helps you find errors in your code through static analysis. You can use Larastan to analyze application code as well as use it to analyze your Laravel packages. If you find this package useful, consider sponsoring the developers.
Laravel News·5yPEST v1.0 is now released
Pest, a Testing Framework with a focus on simplicity, has just launched v1.0. After 400+ commits, 3 betas, seven months – and endless hours of open-source contributions – Pest has finally reached its first stable public release. If you’ve not checked out Pest before take a look at this video of the initial introduction to Pest.
Laravel News·5yLaravel Octane
Laravel Octane is a unified first-party package for running highly performant Laravel utilizing environments like Swoole and RoadRunner. Octane delivered roughly 6,000+ requests per second in some "hello world" examples under a load of ~50 concurrent requests using four concurrent threads.
Laravel News·4yTailwind CSS V3 Is Now Released
Tailwind CSS v3.0 is the most significant release yet. This major version brings impressive performance gains, workflow improvements, and a massive list of features. An in-depth look at what's new in Tailwind v3 by Simon Vrachliotis gets you up to speed on all the new features.
Laravel News·5yGetting 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. With PHP 8.1 out on November 25th this month, it's never been a better time to get ready for the new language. Mohamed has been producing a ton of quality video content on the LaraVEL YouTube channel.
Laravel News·5yCreate Your Next Project's Readme With This Useful Tool
Readme.so is the easiest way to create a readme markdown file for your next project. It includes many standard readme sections you're likely to use. The editor includes both light and dark editor support. You can download or copy/paste the raw markdown of your readme into version control.
Laravel News·5yPHP 8.1 is Two Weeks Away, Here's What to Expect
PHP 8.1 is a minor release with new features focusing on the language's object-oriented design, types, functions, etc. The final Release Candidate (RC6) was announced yesterday. The GA release happens in two weeks on Thursday, November 25th. Users are encouraged to test projects but don't run this version in production quite yet.
Laravel News·4yOur top 10 Laravel Tutorials of 2021
Laravel is fast out-of-the-box, but you can make it faster if you optimize your configurations and application code. Find N+1 problems instantly by disabling lazy loading in development. Laravel provides many excellent helper functions that are convenient for working with arrays, file paths, strings, and routes.
Laravel News·4yLivewire Admin Panel: Lean Admin
Lean Admin is a full-stack admin panel package for Laravel. It has completely new features, ideas, and patterns that aren't offered or used by any admin panels or CMS tools. You can join the waiting list at lean-admin.dev to get a significant discount at launch.
Laravel News·5yLearn How to Build Modern Laravel Apps Using Inertia.js
The series is free, covering Inertia.js, the technology used in first-party Laravel packages such as Laravel Jetstream and Laravel Breeze. The series consists of 24 videos that teach you how to build single-page apps using Inerta.js.
Laravel News·5yLaravel 8.73 Released
The Laravel team released 8.73 with support for Countable objects in the string pluralizer, allowing closures for determining cache TTL, a lazyByIdDesc() query builder method, and the latest changes in the v8.x branch. You can see the complete list of new features and updates below and the diff between 8.71.0 and 8. 73.1 on GitHub.