Weekly updates #10/2022

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

Ecosystem News

• 💬 v6 of Spatie's Laravel Translatable package is released
• 🕵 Laravel is looking for new team members!
• ✨ Laravel v9.4.0 is released
• 🎥 Brent has been working on a new video series about Generics in PHP
• 🚮 Laravel Forge now lets you clean up log files directly from the UI
• 💾 This package provides a Blade directive for caching chunks of your Blade markup

Code tips

• ➡️ The order of columns in multi-column indices matters
• 💿 You can convert an Eloquent collection back to an Eloquent Query builder
• 🔂 RateLimiter's attempt() accepts a fourth parameter for the "decay"
• 📆 Use the $touches property to update the parent timestamp when a child is updated
• 🌚 Bonus: Steve's design tips on creating dark mode themes
• 👤 Bonus #2: Steve's design tips on working with user content