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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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June 17, 2020

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...

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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...

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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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