Hey Laravel Developers 🧑‍💻 Starting with Laravel v12.7.0, a new method called whereAttachedTo() is now available for the belongsToMany relationship in Laravel. As the name suggests, this method allows us to retrieve models that are attached to the given model. Here’s an example

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 During our daily coding session today, my colleague discovered a cool little configuration rule inside of Laravel Pint. So there is a rule inside of pint called binary_operator_spaces which controls the space before and after the binary operator. By

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 You must be aware of the sole() method that comes with Laravel's Query Builder. This method ensures that there is only one matching record for the given criteria. If there is more than one record matching the criteria, or no record at all, this method

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 You must be aware of the tap() method, which is available in various Laravel classes. This method, when chained on an instance, passes that instance as an argument to a callback function or an invokable class, and then returns the same instance.

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 Today, I’m introducing you to one of the packages from Spatie called "crypto". This package, as the name suggests, allows us to encrypt and decrypt messages easily using asymmetric encryption. It includes several methods for generating a

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 We use database seeders to generate test/fake data for our application to work with. But what if you need to run these seeders inside your test cases? Not to worry — Laravel's base test class makes use of the InteractsWithDatabase trait, which

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 Do you know how to configure test dependencies inside Pest PHP? Quite often, while working with test cases, you might notice a pattern where the result of one test case depends entirely on the success of another. For example, a test case verifying

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 You must be very familiar with and have worked with the transaction() method that comes along with the DB Facade. This method takes a callback function as an argument, using which you can perform multiple queries as a transaction, which automatically

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 Let me introduce you to Torchlight!! If you've ever wanted to develop a website with Laravel that displays code blocks written in Laravel, this is the package you might need. This package lets you style your code just like you would see in VS Code, as

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 Have you ever faced problems or headaches keeping your API documentation in sync with ongoing development? Not to worry — let me introduce you to Scramble — a Laravel OpenAPI (Swagger) Documentation Generator. This package, once installed,

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 Starting with Laravel v12.8.0, the Eloquent Collection class has a new method called withRelationshipAutoloading(). This method, as the name suggests, loads the requested relationship as and when it is used, instead of us manually specifying the eager

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 You must be aware of the recently introduced withRelationshipAutoloading() method in the Eloquent Collection class. This method eager loads a relationship when it is first called instead of requiring us to specify the eager load. But there is one

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 You must know about the relationLoaded() method that comes with Laravel Eloquent. This method allows us to check if a given relation is already loaded into the current model or not. Now, starting with Laravel v12.10.0, this method is buffed; this

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 You’re probably already familiar with the unique validation rule that comes with Laravel. This validation rule allows us to check whether a row already exists in a database table with the same value as the given input. However, there's one caveat:

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Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 Do you know about the Timebox helper class that comes with Laravel? The Timebox helper class allows you to specify a fixed time for a given callback function to execute. If the callback function takes less time than the specified time, the response

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 Let me introduce you to two helper methods available on the DB facade: getQueryLog() and enableQueryLog(). You can probably guess the meaning of these methods by their names. They are especially useful inside your test cases when you want to figure out

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 You should be familiar with the Context class, which is included with Laravel, allowing us to share variables between multiple files throughout the request lifecycle. Starting with Laravel v12.20.0, we have new remember() and rememberHidden() methods

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 Starting with Laravel v12.21.0, we have a new whereValueBetween() method on the query builder object. This method, as the name suggests, allows us to check whether a given value lies between the values of two columns of the same type in a table. This

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 You must be aware of the dontReport() method available in the Exceptions class, which allows us to specify Exception classes that we do not want to report inside our log files. Starting from Laravel v12.21.0, we have introduced a new dontReportWhen()