Weekly updates #21/2022

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

Ecosystem News

• 📝 The @spatie_be team has released a new premium package called Laravel Comments
• 🗂️ New package: 'Request Factories' to make testing POST requests easier
• 📦 Laravel Idea can now generate migrations for our tenancy package
• ✨ The latest Laravel release adds Table comments and 'trashed' factory state features
• 📑 Laravel-livewire-wizard package from Spatie comes with headless Livewire components to build wizards

Code tips

• 💿 When creating jobs, only accept the needed data
• 🏗️ You can pass a custom view to the artisan down command
• ⌛ Laravel's Http client lets you easily define retry attempts and a timeout
• 👣 When doing complex data transformations, annotate how the data looks at each step
• 🖥️ You can avoid many n+1 issues by using lateral joins in MySQL
• 💡 Bonus: Here's how we manage codebase TODOs