Weekly updates #46/2021

Hey everyone. This is our weekly thread with news from the Laravel world, our weekly code tips, and updates about our projects. Let's start with those:

• Money package got released
• @lars has PR'd a new favicon() method to our Laravel SEO package
• I wrote about why I use global helpers instead of facades

Ecosystem updates

This week's ecosystem updates: thread

• 🔥 New framework updates
• 💵 Our Money package got released this week
• 👨‍🎓 Learn @inertiajs from the best
• 📖 Want to learn package development?
• 📧 This package provides a lot of options for testing emails
• 📚 It's never too late to start learning PEST
• 👨‍💻 IDE like autocompletion inside your terminal
• 👀 A new article from us

Code tips

This week's code tips: thread

• 🔥 You can validate values for enum database columns using the new Enum validation rule
• 🔥 Use the *quietly() methods to create models without firing events using your factories
• 🔥 Use the nullOrDelete() method in your relationship column definitions to clear their value when the parent record gets deleted
• 🔥 Use the something_at convention instead of is_something in your table definitions
• 🔥 You can use the form="another-form" attribute on buttons to submit a different form
• 🔥 Including a unique value, like now() or Str::random(), in the Blade template of a Livewire component is a great way to check if that part of the DOM is getting re-rendered
• 🔥 You can use Schema methods --- e.g. table() or create() --- outside of migrations
• 🔥 You can use the data_get() method to safely access a nested array value
• 🔥 Use the $loop variable in Blade foreach loops to access metadata about the loop
• 🔥 Create renderable exceptions
• 🔥 Use explicit null handling in your DB queries when filtering for rows with empty value in a nullable column
• 🔥 Use $appends to include properties in the array representation of your model