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What is new in Laravel 10?

This transition is intended to ease the maintenance burden on the community and challenge our development team to ship amazing, powerful new features without introducing breaking changes. Therefore, we have shipped a variety of robust features to Laravel 9 without breaking backwards compatibility.

Therefore, this commitment to ship great new features during the current release will likely lead to future “major” releases being primarily used for “maintenance” tasks such as upgrading upstream dependencies, which can be seen in these release notes.

Laravel 10 continues the improvements made in Laravel 9.x by introducing argument and return types to all application skeleton methods, as well as all stub files used to generate classes throughout the framework. In addition, a new, developer-friendly abstraction layer has been introduced for starting and interacting with external processes.

PHP 8.1:

PHP 8.1 is the minimum-required PHP version in Laravel 10. Some PHP 8.1 features, such as readonly properties and array_is_list, are used in Laravel 10.

Laravel Official Packages Upgrade

Not only is the framework professionally maintained and updated on a regular basis, but so are all of the official packages and the ecosystem.

The following is a list of the most recent official Laravel packages that have been updated to support Laravel 10:

1. Breeze
2. Cashier Stripe
3. Dusk
4. Horizon
5. Installer
6. Jetstream
7. Passport
8. Pint
9. Sail
10. Scout
11. Valet

Predis Version Upgrade

Predis is a robust Redis client for PHP that may help you get the most out of caching to provide a fantastic user experience. Laravel formerly supported both versions 1 and 2, but as of Laravel 10, the framework no longer supports Predis 1.

Although Laravel documentation mentions Predis as the package for interacting with Redis, you may also use the official PHP extension. This extension provides an API for communicating with Redis servers.

All Validation Rules Invokable by Default

If you were to make an invokable validation rule in Laravel 9, you would need to add an –invokable flag after the Artisan command. This is no longer necessary because all Laravel 10 rules are invokable by default. So, you may run the following command to create a new invokable rule in Laravel 10:

php artisan make:rule CustomRule

Types

On its initial release, Laravel utilized all of the type-hinting features available in PHP at the time. However, many new features have been added to PHP in the subsequent years, including additional primitive type-hints, return types, and union types.

Laravel 10.x thoroughly updates the application skeleton and all stubs utilized by the framework to introduce argument and return types to all method signatures. In addition, extraneous “doc block” type-hint information has been deleted.

This change is entirely backwards compatible with existing applications. Therefore, existing applications that do not have these type-hints will continue to function normally.

Test Profiling

The Artisan test command has received a new –profile option that allows you to easily identify the slowest tests in your application:

php artisan test --profile

Generator CLI Prompts

To improve the framework’s developer experience, all of Laravel’s built-in make commands no longer require any input. If the commands are invoked without input, you will be prompted for the required arguments:

php artisan make:controller

String Password Helper Function

Laravel 10 can create a random and secure password with a given length:

$password = Str::password(12);

Laravel Pennant

A new first-party package, Laravel Pennant, has been released. Laravel Pennant offers a light-weight, streamlined approach to managing your application’s feature flags. Out of the box, Pennant includes an in-memory array driver and a database driver for persistent feature storage.

Features can be easily defined via the Feature::define method:

use Laravel\Pennant\Feature;
use Illuminate\Support\Lottery;

Feature::define('new-onboarding-flow', function () {

return Lottery::odds(1, 10);

});

Once a feature has been defined, you may easily determine if the current user has access to the given feature:

if (Feature::active('new-onboarding-flow')) {

// ...

}

Of course, for convenience, Blade directives are also available:

@feature('new-onboarding-flow')

<div>

<!-- ... -->

</div>

@endfeature

Process Interaction

Laravel 10.x introduces a beautiful abstraction layer for starting and interacting with external processes via a new Process facade:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Process;

$result = Process::run('ls -la');

return $result->output();

Processes may even be started in pools, allowing for the convenient execution and management of concurrent processes:

use Illuminate\Process\Pool;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Process;

[$first, $second, $third] = Process::concurrently(function (Pool $pool) {

$pool->command('cat first.txt');

$pool->command('cat second.txt');

$pool->command('cat third.txt');

});

return $first->output();

Horizon / Telescope Facelift

Horizon and Telescope have been updated with a fresh, modern look including improved typography, spacing, and design

Pest Scaffolding

Pest test scaffolding is now enabled by default when creating new Laravel projects. To enable this feature, use the –pest flag when building a new app with the Laravel installer:

laravel new example-application --pest

Conclusion

Laravel 10 is a significant release for the Laravel framework, and it comes with several new features and improvements that will help developers create more robust and efficient web applications. The introduction of BladeX, model event hooks, and improved routing features make it easier for developers to build modular and scalable applications. The dropping of PHP 8.0 support is also a significant decision that ensures that developers are using the latest version of PHP, which is more secure and efficient. As always, Laravel continues to evolve and innovate, making it an excellent choice for web development projects.

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