
Using factories, managing metadata, and pecking PHP
01/30/25 • 60 min
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.
This episode is sponsored by Honeybadger - move fast and fix things with application monitoring that helps developers get it done - and CodeRabbit - cut code review time and bugs in half with AI-driven, contextual feedback.
Show links
- A Fluent Email Validation Rule Added in Laravel 11.38
- UseFactory Attribute Added in Laravel 11.39
- Fluent Date Validation in Laravel 11.40
- Laracon EU Amsterdam 2025
- GGH is a Lightweight CLI to Recall Your SSH Sessions
- DevDb - VS Code database management extension launches v2
- Television is a Multi-purpose Fuzy Finder TUI
- Lua - Laravel powered open-source URL shortener
- Immutable Value Objects in PHP and Laravel With the Bags Package
- Recurr is a PHP library for working with recurrence rules for calendar dates
- Manage Metadata on Laravel Eloquent Models with JSON Support
- Laravel Debounce
- PeckPHP - A CLI tool designed to identify wording or spelling mistakes in your codebase
- A Laravel Package to Use the Deepseek API With V3 AI Models
- Create GitHub Issues from Exceptions and Logs in Laravel
- DigitalOcean API Client for Laravel
- Laravel Rewind is a Versioning Package for Eloquent
- Laravel SpaceOCR: Parse Images and Multi-page PDFs in Laravel
- Laravel Faker OpenAI
- A Package to Manage Model Status in Laravel
- SimpleStats: Analyze Beyond Visits – Discover Registrations, Revenue and Conversions in Minutes
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.
This episode is sponsored by Honeybadger - move fast and fix things with application monitoring that helps developers get it done - and CodeRabbit - cut code review time and bugs in half with AI-driven, contextual feedback.
Show links
- A Fluent Email Validation Rule Added in Laravel 11.38
- UseFactory Attribute Added in Laravel 11.39
- Fluent Date Validation in Laravel 11.40
- Laracon EU Amsterdam 2025
- GGH is a Lightweight CLI to Recall Your SSH Sessions
- DevDb - VS Code database management extension launches v2
- Television is a Multi-purpose Fuzy Finder TUI
- Lua - Laravel powered open-source URL shortener
- Immutable Value Objects in PHP and Laravel With the Bags Package
- Recurr is a PHP library for working with recurrence rules for calendar dates
- Manage Metadata on Laravel Eloquent Models with JSON Support
- Laravel Debounce
- PeckPHP - A CLI tool designed to identify wording or spelling mistakes in your codebase
- A Laravel Package to Use the Deepseek API With V3 AI Models
- Create GitHub Issues from Exceptions and Logs in Laravel
- DigitalOcean API Client for Laravel
- Laravel Rewind is a Versioning Package for Eloquent
- Laravel SpaceOCR: Parse Images and Multi-page PDFs in Laravel
- Laravel Faker OpenAI
- A Package to Manage Model Status in Laravel
- SimpleStats: Analyze Beyond Visits – Discover Registrations, Revenue and Conversions in Minutes
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- Laravel whenLoaded
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- Using withoutWrapping to flatten API responses
- Customizing data transformations with Laravel casts
- Preserving collection keys in Laravel API resources
- Working with URIs in Laravel
- Discover file downloads in Laravel with Storage::download
- Working with JSON attributes using Laravel's array casts
- Adding request context in Laravel applications
- Extracting sequential data with Laravel's takeWhile
- Deep array manipulation with Laravel's replaceRecursive method
- Filtering collection objects by type with whereInstanceOf
- Converting Laravel models to JSON for API responses
- Accessing raw model data with Laravel's attributesToArray method
- Optimizing factory data creation with Laravel's recycle method
- Early view data pr...
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This episode is sponsored by Honeybadger - move fast and fix things with application monitoring that helps developers get it done - and CodeRabbit - cut code review time and bugs in half with AI-driven, contextual feedback.
Show links
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