Weekly updates #16/2022

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

Ecosystem News

• 🔭 Laravel Forge got a command palette
• 🤿 Mask: An official @Alpine_JS plugin for input masks
• 🔐 Laravel Forge now lets you manage the global auth.json file directly from the UI
• 📗 Writing Readable PHP: A new course by @spatie_be and @christophrumpel
• 🕸️ Version 1.0.0 of Roach — the web scraping toolkit for PHP — got released

Code tips

• 🚏 Controllers can be used as route groups
• 🗝️ You can get all primary keys from an Eloquent Collection using the modelKeys() method
• 🏭 You can set model attributes on factories using the set() method
• 🔗 You can add temporaryUrl() to any storage driver
• 💡 Bonus: Tips for using JSON columns in relational databases
• 💡 Bonus: A thread all about the Eloquent query() method
• 💡 Bonus: Flags that can be used on the laravel new command