Ibises, better testing tools, and model casting

Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.

This episode was streamed live.

Show links

• Laravel 8.12 is released with support for PHP 8
• Eloquent Performance Patterns by Jonathan Reinink
• PestPHP plugin for PhpStorm
• Better PHPUnit VSCode extension
• IntelliJ plugin for Alpine.js
• Changes coming to PHP Faker
• Learn about GitHub Actions and unconventional autoloaders in tomorrow's Laravel Worldwide Meetup
• GitHub Actions for PHP Developers by Ryan Chandler
• Ibis book maker
• Test your OpenAPI implementation with Spectator
• Social Images for PHP packages
• Eloquent encrypted casting
• Laravel castable Data Transfer Object
• Archive Eloquent models with the "Archivable" package
• Device tracking in Laravel