Weekly updates #04/2022

Hey everyone. This is our weekly thread with news from the Laravel world, our weekly code tips, and other updates.

Lean Admin Showcase

This week we have an article in Laravel News showing off some features of Lean Admin.

If you'd like to see the features (with code examples and screenshots), you can find the article here: https://laravel-news.com/lean-admin-sneak-peek

Ecosystem news

This week's updates from the Laravel world: thread

• 📹 The trailer of the Laravel Origins documentary has been released
• ✨ A new Laravel release!
• 💰 Taylor & others are offering a reward to anyone who can add Blade support to Prettier
• 💬 Send a message from Laravel to Slack with a single line of code
• 👨‍💻 The Laravel team is looking for a new team member
• 💅 The official Prettier plugin for Tailwind CSS is released!
• 🎉 Larastan 2 is here for Laravel 9 + PHP 8

Code tips

This week's code tips: thread

• 🔥 You can use the date helper on the Request class to retrieve a value as a Carbon instance
• 🔥 Laravel's container can be used for resolving variadic dependencies
• 🔥 Use PostgreSQL's trigram indexes to make WHERE LIKE queries faster
• 🔥 Use Eloquent scopes to clean up complex relation queries
• 🔥 The value() helper returns the passed value UNLESS it's invokable --- then it first calls it
• 🔥 Use Tailwind's color opacity modifier to change the background color and opacity in a single class
• 🔥 You can use useCurrent() & useCurrentOnUpdate() on timestamp fields in your migrations
• 🔥 Higher-order messages are a great way to tidy up long collection logic
• 🔥 Convert email addresses to full names with the help of Str::headline()