Happy holidays everyone! 

I wanted to personally thank you for being a subscriber and to let you know that we will be making some adjustments to the weekly newsletter over the coming weeks. The biggest change will be a new design, and it's possible we will be switching email providers. We are super excited about this and can't wait to show it to you. 

Next week will be a slow time for us to post new content, so a newsletter may or may not be delivered next Sunday. We look forward to 2023 and to continue to keep you informed on everything new with Laravel and the ecosystem. Now on to this week's updates... 

- Eric Barnes 

Laravel 9.45

The Laravel team released 9.45 this week with custom component search paths, a new validation rule, router convenience for ULID route params, and more.

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Effective Eloquent

Get ready to level up your Laravel skills with this tutorial on eloquent queries! You'll learn everything you need to know, from beginner to advanced techniques

OpnForm is an Open-source Form Builder Made With Laravel

In this article, we'll look at Termwind, how to install it, and how to use it in your Artisan commands. We'll then update an old example Artisan command step-by-step to use Termwind and see how it improves the output.

A quick guide on why you should use Laravel Octane to scale your app

Know how to optimize your Laravel application using Octane and why Laravel Octane is better than traditional Laravel frameworks in performance and efficiency

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Community Links

Three Equitable Design Considerations
tighten.com

Why Use Laravel Octane to Scale your Application in 2023?
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XSS Explained - What Is Cross Site Scripting - Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8
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On Demand Compute (serverless-ish)
fly.io

Eager Load Specific Columns - 3 New Things Added - New in Laravel 9.43.0
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What's The Use Of dontReport Property On Exception Handler
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Testing Laravel Packages Locally with Docker
dev.to

SDKs, The Laravel Way: Part II
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Let's Build CRUD Actions For Categories - Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8
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New in PHP 8.2 - All New Features and Deprecations
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Three Web Accessibility Considerations
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How to disable CSRF protection in Laravel
rocketee.rs

Top 10 Books For Laravel Developers
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Safely upgrade from PHP 7.4 to 8.1 using Rector
blog.genijaho.dev

A package to run Google Lighthouse using PHP
freek.dev

alpine-ripple
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Lucid
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Laravel Timezones: cast date attributes to the correct timezone
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Laravel Horizon Watcher
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PHP ACL - Simple, JSON-based, AWS IAM-style ACL for your next PHP application
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Laravel Typegen - Generate TypeScript types from your Laravel code
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Laravel Courses
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Helper - Project Management tool
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Easily create a Button Spinner in JavaScript & CSS
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How to Persist Data in forms | Laravel | Tutorial | How to | Quick Win Wednesday #QWW
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Laravel: Token Authentication Using Sanctum
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To CRUD or Not To CRUD? Discussion with Example. [VIDEO]
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A recap of 2022
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Fun with Refactoring
Refactoring isn't a dirty word, quite the opposite. Refactoring is something that you do when you have leveled up or generally improved.

Laravel 9.41 Released
The Laravel team released 9.41 this week with validation rules for soft-deleted models, additional rule builder convenience methods, and more.

Your first Laravel 9 Application
If you have never built a Laravel application, let me take a walk-through with you from scratch - with no perceived knowledge. Follow along to learn Laravel

Laravel Black Friday Deals
You can save huge amounts of money on everything from training courses to full applications. This year we’ve compiled a list of all the hot sales.

Laravel Blade Country and Language Icons
Laravel Blade Flags is a package to easily display countries & languages flags in your Laravel Blade views.

Last Year

Laravel Auto Binder: Bind Interfaces to Implementations Automatically
Laravel Auto Binder is a package that binds interfaces to implementations automatically.

Laravel Migration Actions
Laravel migration actions is like version control for your migration process, allowing your team to modify and share the application's actionable schema.

Laravel 8.77 Released
The Laravel team released 8.77 with attribute cast/accessor improvements, a new Request::date() method, and the latest changes in the v8.x branch.

Track the Health of Your Application With Laravel Health
Laravel Health is a package by Spatie to monitor the health of your applications. It provides checks, notifications, and results to monitor the health of your app.

Livewire Admin Panel: Lean Admin
Lean is a full-stack framework for building admin panel-centric web apps. Some of its frontend logic really makes it feel like a new framework, since it introduces many new abstractions specifically developed to make building dynamic admin panels easy.

Two Years ago

Laravel Telegram Communities
The Laravel community has started embracing the app and here are some of the community channels you might be interested in.

Laravel 8.20 Released
The Laravel team released 8.20 this week with cache lock connection configuration, the ability to provide default values when syncing a pivot table, and the latest changes in the 8.x branch.

Some Laravel Podcasts for your holiday break
As 2020 starts coming to a close you might be taking some time off work and have some spare time. If you are looking to fill some downtime with podcasts here are three new Laravel related episodes that just came out this week that you might want to download and check out. 

Testing Mailable Content in Laravel 8
Laravel 8.18.0 added methods to test HTML and plain-text email bodies for mailables. These methods are documented, but I’d like to walk through a simple example to illustrate how useful these can be.

Flysystem v2
Version 2 of Flysystem is now released and many of the library’s core design elements have been brushed up and improved. The API is reduced while keeping the same functionality. Error handling is now purely exception-based, and directory listings are now backed by generators.

Laravel Desktop Notifier
Laravel Desktop Notifier is a package by Nuno Maduro to send notifications to your desktop from Artisan commands

The unofficial Fathom Analytics API
Marcel Pociot built an unofficial PHP SDK to get statistics out of Fathom Analytics. 

Laravel Macroable Models Package
Laravel Macroable Models offers developers an easy way of programmatically adding methods to Laravel Eloquent models.