September 15, 2020

Episode 30 - Laravel 8 Streamlines

In this episode, JMac and Jess finish the mini-series on streamlining code within your Laravel applications by reviewing some of the new features in Laravel 8 which help you write less complex, more readable code.

Show Notes

• Laravel 8 Release Notes
• Vimconf 2020
• Can I upgrade Laravel yet?
• Automated Laravel 8 compatibility PR
• Handling exceptions in Laravel 8
• Tidy up your tests with class based model factories
• Laravel 8 model factory class
• Mapping models with morphMap
• Namespace Models Shift
• Queuing closures
• Job retry exponential backoffs