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Exclude Vendor and Default Commands in php artisan dev (Laravel 13.30)
Laravel 13.30 adds withoutVendorCommands() and withoutDefaultCommands() to the DevCommands class, giving you p...
Mohamed Said
Group Adjacent Collection Items in Laravel with chunkBy()
Laravel 13.30 adds chunkBy(), a clean shorthand for chunkWhile() that groups consecutive collection items shar...
Mohamed Said
Pessimistic Locking in Laravel Eloquent with refreshForUpdate()
Laravel 13.27 adds refreshForUpdate() to Eloquent, letting you reload a model from the database and acquire a...
Mohamed Said
Mask Query Bindings in Laravel Exception Messages
Laravel 13.27 adds a per-connection option to prevent bound query values from appearing in QueryException mess...
Mohamed Said
whereBinary(): How to Run Case-Sensitive MySQL Queries in Laravel 13.27
Laravel 13.27 adds whereBinary(), orWhereBinary(), whereNotBinary(), and orWhereNotBinary() — clean query-buil...
Mohamed Said
Laravel Image Responses: Serve Resized Images Directly From Routes
Laravel 13.25 makes Image implement the Responsable contract, adds Image::fromStream(), and exposes a public t...
Mohamed Said
Pause All Laravel Queues During a Deploy with queue:pause --all
Laravel 13.25 adds a global queue pause switch that stops every worker on every connection from reserving new...
Mohamed Said
Reject Unexpected Array Keys with Laravel Validation (Laravel 13.24)
Laravel 13.24 introduces the `array_keys` validation rule, letting you whitelist exactly which keys an array m...
Mohamed Said
Extract an Image's Dominant Color in Laravel 13.24
Laravel 13.24 added dominantColor() to the first-party image API. Learn how to extract, store, and use an imag...
Mohamed Said