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In the meantime: Best Laravel tips from the past few months 👇
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Using composer outdated —direct you can view any dependency of your app that has a major / minor / patch release available.
Here’s the output for the Laravel app that powers https://freek.dev
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Laravel tip. From Laravel 8.69, there's a "Str::mask()" method which masks a portion of the string with a repeated character like "*".
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⚡️ Database Tip
Deleting an unused index is still a risky operation: If you are wrong (and it is still needed) the database will become slow. Before deleting it, you can make the index invisible first and make it visible again instantly if you still need it.
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⚡️ Database Tip
Unique indexes can not be created in some cases because a value is duplicated by e.g. soft-deleted rows.
But with partial indexes and creative tricks you can exclude some rows to create the uniqueness constraint on a selection of rows.
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⚡️ Database Tip
Most developers are puzzled that indexes are not used for e.g. WHERE LOWER(email) = ?. But contrary to common belief, an index can be created for these cases! It's called a function-based index and is supported by MySQL and PostgreSQL.
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🐘 Can you believe I didn’t know that PHP has a backtick operator?
Anything between `` will be executed like shell_exec and returned 🤯
Docs: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.execution.php
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Papercut: starting today's @laravelphp release, Blade can now infer values from PHP 8.1 backed enums. 💅🏻
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🙂🙃🙂 Have you ever tried running your tests in random order?
This can be helpful to detect interdependencies between tests.
(works on @pestphp and PHPUnit)
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