What's New In Laravel 5.3

Chris Wilson will cover the shiny new features coming out in Laravel v5.3.

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2. W H AT ' S N E W I N
   L A R AVE L 5 . 3
   A T A L K B Y C H R I S W I L S O N
   

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3. P re s t o
   @ C S W A P P S
   

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4. S C O U T
   

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5. S C O U T
   Laravel Scout is a driver based advanced Eloquent
   search, it supports Algolia out of the box.
   

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6. M A I L A B L E
   

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7. M A I L A B L E
   The new email class for sending emails
   in an intuitive and expressive way.
   

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8. N O T I F I C AT I O N S
   

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9. N O T I F I C AT I O N S
   The new notifications class allow you to make quick
   updates through services like Slack, SMS, or Email.
   

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10. PA S S P O RT
    

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11. PA S S P O RT
    API authentication is complex and difficult to
    implement, but Laravel Passport makes installing
    and setting up OAuth 2 a cinch.
    

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12. PA S S P O RT
    N O R E A L LY
    I T ’ S AW E S O M E !
    

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13. R O L L B A C K
    

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14. R O L L B A C K O N E M I G R AT I O N
    Rollback one allows you to rollback just one
    migration instead of the whole batch.
    

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15. B L A D E
    F O R E A C H
    L O O P S
    

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16. B L A D E F O R E A C H L O O P S
    Inside of a Blade file's foreach loop, you
    can now have new $loop variables.
    

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17. B L A D E F O R E A C H L O O P S
    Probably a better way of doing it would
    to do something like this.
    

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18. R E T U R N
    C O L L E C T I O N
    A
    

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19. R E T U R N A C O L L E C T I O N
    Query builder now returns a collection
    instead of an array.
    

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20. N E W J S O N
    C O L U M N S Y N T A X
    

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21. N E W J S O N C O L U M N S Y N T A X
    While Laravel has had the ability to cast your
    data to and from JSON since version 5.0, it was
    previously just a convenience—your data was
    still just stored in a TEXT field. But MySQL
    5.7 introduced an actual JSON column type.
    

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22. N E W J S O N C O L U M N S Y N T A X
    For example, lets say we have a players
    schema with a meta column.
    

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23. N E W J S O N C O L U M N S Y N T A X
    Our collection would look something like this.
    

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24. N E W J S O N C O L U M N S Y N T A X
    If we wanted to get all online players we
    could do something like this.
    

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25. N E W J S O N C O L U M N S Y N T A X
    If we wanted to update our player status,
    we could do something like this.
    

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26. R O U T I N G
    

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27. R O U T I N G C H A N G E S I N 5 . 3
    The routes.php file has been replaced with
    two new (web.php and api.php) files.
    Both of these files are now in the routes
    folder in the project’s root directory.
    

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28. D I R E C TO RY
    S T R U C T U R E C H A N G E S
    

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29. D I R E C TO RY S T R U C T U R E C H A N G E S
    With new Laravel 5.3 installs there are
    4 directories that will no longer be included
    out of the box that where prior to 5.3
    Events, Jobs, Listeners, and Policies
    These directories will automatically get
    added when they are needed by the frame
    work when an event, job, etc. is created.
    

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30. M U LT I P L E
    M I G R AT I O N PAT H S
    

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31. M U LT I P L E M I G R AT I O N PAT H S
    If you have ever installed a Laravel package
    that needs a migration, it involves copying it’s
    migrations into the migration folder, but with
    Laravel 5.3 - a package can define its
    own migration path.
    

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32. M U LT I P L E M I G R AT I O N PAT H S
    When you run
    php artisan migrate
    All migrations will run without you having
    to clutter your migration directory.
    

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33. And they coded happily ever after.
    T H E E N D
    

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