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July 8, 2020
What is Value Object Casting in Laravel?
Laravel 7 introduced Custom Eloquent Casts. Next to primitive types, such as json, it is also possible to cast values that form a compound to objects. This is an effective way to introduce value...
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Configuration Caching Caveats in Laravel
With configuration caching you can bundle all configuration files, to be loaded faster by Laravel.
When you run php artisan config:cache, a new file will be created in...
May 16, 2020
A New Syntax For Foreign Keys in Laravel 7
Since 7.x, Laravel provides a very compact syntax for creating foreign key constraints with the constrained method.
In this post we will give a short demonstration of this syntax, and we...
April 24, 2020
Refactoring Nested Queries in Laravel With Dot Notation And Arrow Functions
Recently I stumbled upon a nested query in a Laravel project. It was written like this: You might have seen a comparable nested query in the code you had to work on, and you probably agree that...
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