Weekly updates #47/2021

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

Today is Black Friday and we've compiled a list of the best deals: on Twitter and forum.

Ecosystem news

This week's updates from the Laravel world: thread

• 🎁 The hottest Black Friday deals in the Laravel world
• 🔥 The internal state of @LaravelLivewire components is now included on Ignition (and @flareappio) error screens
• 📔 A nice collection of useful tactics & patterns to use in your Laravel applications
• 🆕 PHP 8.1 is here. And @spatie_be's video course is one of the best resources to learn about the new features
• ✨ Laravel v8.73 updates
• 🎭 Learn how you can use bitmasks in your Laravel applications
• 💅 mobile:hidden style for Tailwind CSS
• 🌱 Not directly about Laravel but certainly important for the ecosystem. Continued advancement of PHP is very much needed

Code tips

This week's code tips: thread

• 🔥 Create an attempt() helper for calls that can silently fail
• 🔥 Use prefetching to boost the perceived speed of Livewire apps
• 🔥 You can convert Eloquent Collections back to a Query Builder instance
• 🔥 Use aggregate methods to count related models
• 🔥 Consider using mb_* functions when working with localized strings
• 🔥 You can implement the ShouldBeEncrypted interface on your jobs to encrypt their payload before they get pushed to the queue
• 🔥 Laravel can automatically notify you by email when a scheduled job fails
• 💡 Git bonus: Use "git checkout -" to jump to the previous branch