Weekly updates #22/2022

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

Ecosystem News

• 📖 Boris is compiling all the best practices used to build Inertia-powered apps into a book
• 🥤 The Laravel driver for SingleStore DB is now available in beta
• ⭐️ Laravel v9.15 released. Key updates are vendor only routes list and isJson() string helper
• 🚀 Laravel Login link: a new package from @spatie_be offers a Blade component to quickly login to your local environment
• 💳 Payment retries feature added to Laravel Spark (Stripe version)

Code tips

• ↪️ You can use to_route instead of redirect()->route()
• 🤩 Blade's @class directive can significantly clean up your templates
• 👷 Constructor property promotion pairs extremely well with DTOs
• 💽 You can use the @env Blade directive to render stuff only in a given environment
• 💡 Bonus: Good commit messages say "why" a change was made, not "what" change was made