Weekly updates #29/2022

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

Ecosystem News

• 🆕 MANY new features and DX improvements in Laravel 9.21
• 🤯 Laravel Pint is now included as a default dev dependency
• 🌌 Vite 3 support across the entire ecosystem
• 🆕 PHP 8.2.0alpha1 is available for testing
• 📦 New package: Size
• 🌟 Latest updates in Vapor
• 📘 Codecourse series on Laravel Model Pruning
• 💫 Tinkerwell 3.5 released

Code tips

• ℹ️ dump() and dd() are available on the Eloquent Query Builder
• 🪢 Use $wire.entangle() instead of $entangle
• 🗑️ You can assert that a job will be deleted from the queue
• ⚙️ HTTP response status can be customized when denying actions via Gates & Policies