An Introduction To The Latest Laravel Update: Laravel 9

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Laravel has been one of the most popular PHP frameworks for many years. It’s elegant, scalable, and has become one of the de facto frameworks for developers and companies working with PHP. Now, Laravel 9 is on the way with a ton of new features.

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Laravel 9 Important details:

PHP 8.0: To run Laravel 9 you need at least PHP 8.0. If you have PHP 7 or something lower than this your Laravel 9 won’t work.

Supports Laravel 8 Features: Laravel 9 supports all those features which were present in Laravel 8.0. Nothing is depreciated. Hence you won’t face much problem while upgrading from Laravel 8.0

Is Laravel 8 knowledge waste: Laravel 8 knowledge is not waste since many things are similar like syntax, classes etc.

What's new in Laravel 9?
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Symfony Mailer:

Previous to the release of Laravel they used Swift ...
... Mailer to send out outgoing mails. But there were no new updates in this swift mailer from a long time ago. So now the swift mailer is put down and symfony mailer has replaced it internally. But this is changed in the internal library, so the functions you need to use are not changed; they are the same as earlier.

Flysystem 3.x:

Earlier Laravel the flysystem used was 1.x and here x means zero. Now the flysystem in Laravel 9 is 3.x. This is also used internally which is termed as under the hood.

Flysystem powers all of the file manipulation methods provided by the storage facade.

But the wrapper and function are still the same.

Improved Accessors/ Mutators:

What was their work? Let's say if you wish to enter a value in the database or want to take out any value from the database at that time we used Accessors/ Mutators. But in Laravel 8 these had different functions that were different for accessors and different for mutators, but now you can use both of these functions with the help of properties in a single function. This is something you need to change in the code on your own.

Controller Route Groups:

Earlier suppose you made a controller and you created 20 functions inside it for routing so you have to write class names again and again in all those 20 functions but now you just need to write the class only once and then prepare a group for it and write its functions inside it.

This change doesn’t mean that you can’t work as you did earlier,you can still work in the old way.

Technically saying now you can use the controller method to define the common controller for all the routes within the groups. This will save your time and make your code look clean.

Full Text Indexes/ Where clause:

A change is implemented related to the database. 2 new functions are added:

Full Text: Whenever you do the migration from the table you create a column and there was no option to index full text there but now you can generate full text and index it.

Wherefulltext and orwherefulltext: Earlier when you inserted a query you could only insert where condition not wherefulltext but now you can do this as well.

So now Wherefulltext and orwherefulltext both will work.

Scout Database Engine:

When you were building a small application earlier the database engines used were Algolia and MeiliSearch but now you can add a scout engine and use it as well if your application is small and light in weight.

Rendering Inline Blade Templates:

Earlier when we needed to generate a small HTML code we needed to make a separate view file but now you can either at controller or anywhere else wherever you are returning your code there you can instead of calling blade file you can internally write inline blade template.

Slot Name Shortcut:

Earlier in Laravel 8 a feature was introduced with the name of slot and previously the slot names were provided using a name attribute on the x-slot tag and now you can just write colon (:) the name will be itself defined.

Checked/ Selected Blade Directives

You may now use the @checked directive to easily indicate if the given HTML checkbox input is checked. Same in case of selection you can now use @selected.

Bootstrap 5 Pagination Views:

Laravel now includes Pagination Views built using Bootstrap 5.

Improved Ignition Exception Page:

This page has been redesigned from the ground up.

Implicit Route Bindings With Enum:

Laravel 9.x introduces the ability to type-hint an Enum on your route definition. Values are already fixed inside the Enum.

Test Coverage Using Artisan Test Command:

The Artisan test command has received a new coverage option that you may use to explore the amount of code coverage your test is providing to your application. Thus the converge percentage for testing can be checked easily now.

New Helpers:

The two new helpers introduced in Laravel 9 are: #str and #to_route

The Creators of Laravel 9 try to provide the best solution to their users, and for that, they always try to come up with new updated versions every year. This new version has Laravel 9 new features that will help you develop your web apps easily.

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