🔥 This week's code tips for Laravel developers
🧵 A weekly thread
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🔥 In an Eloquent model can define a relation that will get the newest (or oldest) item of another relation. Very nice!
📘 Docs: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/eloquent-relationships#has-one-of-many
#laravel #php
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Most of the times I've used contextual binding in Laravel, it's been to share config values.
TIL there's a more succinct giveConfig method for that
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🔥When you add an array{} return docblock, IDEs are able to autocomplete the keys when reaching into that array.
Sweet! #php
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💡#Laravel Tip: Database model factories have handy 'afterMaking' and 'afterCreating' callback methods that you can use to perform additional tasks on newly-created objects.
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A quick reminder about a not-so-often used #PHP feature.
We have the spread operator, and it works just like the one in JavaScript.
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🔥 Use the "terminating" hook on your @laravelphp app instance to perform tasks after the response was already sent to the browser.
That's also what's powering "dispatchAfterResponse" 🚀
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If you want to have Eloquent return a custom collection class (so you can define methods of your own on it, you can the newCollection method on your model.
More in this excellent post by @timacdonald87 https://timacdonald.me/giving-collections-a-voice/
#laravel #php
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🔥 Remember that you can pass parameters to your custom @laravelphp middleware classes
This simple middleware allows me to inject onboarding screens in an Inertia app.
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🔥 Tip: You don't have to use "related_id"-type columns in database queries or value comparisons.
Laravel understands your relations and lets you write much cleaner code.
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✔ You can validate fields even within a middleware in Laravel.
This would help when you need to constantly validate the same field(s) on your requests:
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