Weekly updates #07/2022

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

Ecosystem News

• 🦾 Laravel Forge now auto-suggests repo branches
• 🔥 Laravel 9 added a @pushOnce Blade directive
• ✍️ New Str::excerpt() method has been added by Nuno
• 👾 Freek has turned @calebporzio's invade() helper into a new @spatie_be package
• 📚 Another great resource for learning @pestphp
• 🤯 You can now create diagrams in markdown files on GitHub
• 💾 Ryan released a package for storing app settings in an on-disk JSON file
• 🤖 Kai has launched an app for creating auto-updating dashboards

Code tips

• 🔢 Use Faker::numerify() to create strings with numbers at specific places
• 😱 You can use traits inside PHP enums
• 🛠 Move tests to separate test suites
• 🗓 You can conditionally skip() scheduled jobs
• 🔥 You can use whereNumber() on routes instead of passing a regex pattern to where()
• ✍️ Use comments for explaining complex logic