
Ibises, better testing tools, and model casting
11/11/20 • 32 min
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.
This episode was streamed live.
Show links
- Laravel 8.12 is released with support for PHP 8
- Eloquent Performance Patterns by Jonathan Reinink
- PestPHP plugin for PhpStorm
- Better PHPUnit VSCode extension
- IntelliJ plugin for Alpine.js
- Changes coming to PHP Faker
- Learn about GitHub Actions and unconventional autoloaders in tomorrow's Laravel Worldwide Meetup
- GitHub Actions for PHP Developers by Ryan Chandler
- Ibis book maker
- Test your OpenAPI implementation with Spectator
- Social Images for PHP packages
- Eloquent encrypted casting
- Laravel castable Data Transfer Object
- Archive Eloquent models with the "Archivable" package
- Device tracking in Laravel
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.
This episode was streamed live.
Show links
- Laravel 8.12 is released with support for PHP 8
- Eloquent Performance Patterns by Jonathan Reinink
- PestPHP plugin for PhpStorm
- Better PHPUnit VSCode extension
- IntelliJ plugin for Alpine.js
- Changes coming to PHP Faker
- Learn about GitHub Actions and unconventional autoloaders in tomorrow's Laravel Worldwide Meetup
- GitHub Actions for PHP Developers by Ryan Chandler
- Ibis book maker
- Test your OpenAPI implementation with Spectator
- Social Images for PHP packages
- Eloquent encrypted casting
- Laravel castable Data Transfer Object
- Archive Eloquent models with the "Archivable" package
- Device tracking in Laravel
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