Weekly updates #12/2022

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

SaaS boilerplate / Weekend sale

This week we've upgraded our multi-tenant SaaS boilerplate to Laravel 9. Tenancy itself received Laravel 9 support a few weeks earlier.

If you'd like to purchase the boilerplate, you can get a license this weekend for $149 using this link (discount limited to 10 licenses).

Ecosystem News

• 🪐 Nova v4 is launching on April 5th
• ✌️ Ray just got a new major upgrade to v2
• 🚀 Multi-tenant SaaS boilerplate updated to Laravel 9
• 🗜️ curl for humans: The new tool from @spatie_be to make network requests from CLI
• ✅ Laravel Husk lets you test JavaScript-only web apps using Pest and Dusk without installing Laravel
• 🤗 Integrations for Select2 and Choices.js added to @Alpine_JS
• 🧭 Given-When-Then Plugin for behavioral style testing with Pest

Code tips

• 🤩 You can remove all falsy values from a Collection by calling filter() without any arguments
• 👾 isset() accepts multiple arguments
• 💾 You can record all login & logout events
• 🔐 Use the ShouldBeEncrypted interface on a job class to make Laravel encrypt the job's payload
• 🧪 You can start testing Livewire components with a basic test that makes sure components render accurately
• 🚮 You can clear all Laravel caches using optimize:clear
• 💿 You can debounce a function using Alpine.debounce()
• 📅 You can generate a series of dates in a given range right at the database level
• 😲 Pest allows calling dd() directly on the expect() chain
• 🖥️ If you use both pest and PHPUnit, you can use both syntaxes in both types of tests
• 💡 Bonus: Jack describes a good way to manage your staging environment on Vapor
• 💡 Bonus: A thread of Marcel to use DevTools console at its full potential