Weekly updates #27/2022

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

Ecosystem News

• ☀️ Laracon Online is now accepting speaker submissions for Laracon Summer 2022
• 🌟 Laravel SingleStoreDB driver v1.0.0 released
• ⚡ New package: Fast ⚡️ Paginate
• ✅ This year's State of Laravel Survey is open
• 🆕 Laracasts announces a new category: CreatorSeries
• 👷‍♂️ Codecourse series on Custom Query Builders

Code tips

• 💿 You can validate JSON columns at database level
• 💅 You can use the boolean() / date() / string() methods on the Request object instead of manually type-casting request parameters
• 💡 Bonus: A thread on Actions in Laravel