Weekly updates #17/2022

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

Ecosystem News

• 📧 Livewire Component Design: our email series is live
• 🆓 Jeffrey has started a brand new Vue 3 series on @laracasts
• 🔰 PHPStan 1.6.0 is released
• 📑 New releases in the Laravel ecosystem this week
• ✨ The Favicon Fetcher package lets you retrieve, cache, and store favicons

Code tips

• ✅ You can validate a field and exclude it from the validated() data
• 💅 You can define default model data for BelongsTo relationships
• 🖥️ You can dynamically create and extend interfaces in PHP
• 💾 You can use Eloquent's exists() method to check whether a record exists
• 🤖 You can make concurrent requests using the Http client's `pool() method
• 📀 You can validate JSON columns at the database level