Weekly updates #14/2022

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

Ecosystem News

• 🌠 Laravel Nova v4 is released
• 🧹 New in Laravel 9.7: A flag to remove databases created in parallel tests
• 🎚 Laravel Feature Flags package lets you toggle application features on the fly
• 📻 Justin talks with Taylor about the business of Laravel in 2022
• 🚀 DynamoDB driver for Eloquent

Code tips

• 🔡 You can call squish() on Stringable instances to remove all unnecessary whitespaces
• 🗑️ You can call withTrashed() on a route to accept soft deleted models
• 📅 You can calculate the age() of Carbon instances
• ❓ You can use the missing method to customize 404 handling on a route
• ⏲️ You can temporarily disable timestamps when saving a model
• 💽 You can create Storage disks on the fly
• 🖥️ You can create DB indices for transformed versions of columns
• 📄 You can associate an input with a form using the form= attribute