Weekly updates #13/2022

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

Ecosystem News

• 3️⃣ Laravel Valet 3 is released. Main highlight: locking sites to a specific PHP version — regardless of global PHP config
• 🧪 Laravel starter kits — Jetstream and Breeze — have a couple of awesome updates
• 🗃 Jeffrey shows how to use the HTML dialog element to construct modal popups
• 🎥 Simon of Tailwind Labs has launched his personal screencasts series
• 🚀 React v18.0 is released with a lot of new updates
• 🪄 Automatically generate a style guide from a Tailwind CSS config

Code tips

• ❄️ You can freeze time in your tests
• 💿 Understand the difference between fresh() and refresh(). One returns a fresh new instance, while the other refreshes an existing instance
• ⌚ You can use use whereBetween to filter for records between two timestamps
• 🏎 You can use constrained eager loading to increase performance of database queries that use relations
• 🤖 You can queue Closures
• 🔠 You can now call newLine() on Stringable instances
• 📂 You can transform variables passed to translation strings right in language files
• 🔔 You can use Notification::assertNothingSentTo() to check that no notifications were sent to a specific user/notifiable model
• 💡 Bonus 1: Carbon cheat sheet for generating dates
• 💡 Bonus 2: Artisan make:model cheat sheet