003 - Laravel 5.5

It’s Laracon week and we’re getting ready for Laravel’s 5.5 release. Developers Jesse O’Brien, Colin DeCarlo, and Dan Soppelsa sit down to chat through features, updates, and tools implemented for the release.

Links and resources:

• Jesse O’Brien on Twitter: goo.gl/z4i42G


• Jesse O’Brien on GitHub: goo.gl/orDGuJ


• Colin DeCarlo on Twitter: goo.gl/tYRaDF


• Colin DeCarlo on GitHub: goo.gl/ePFtPJ


• Dan Soppelsa on Twitter: goo.gl/WvWKAw


• Dan Soppelsa on GitHub: goo.gl/2fDMXJ


• “Package Auto-Discovery In Laravel 5.5” blog post from Taylor Ottwell: goo.gl/Yi4V3K


• Torqd via @Vehikl on Twitter: goo.gl/WEaS1w


• Torqd via Vehikl by email: [email protected]

Contributions:

• Guests: Jesse O’Brien, Dan Soppelsa, and Colin DeCarlo


• Hosts: Eric Drouillard and Margaret Tavares


• Production and editing: Stephen Belyea


• Music and show art: Adam Frank


• Recording facilities: Vehikl (Waterloo)

Special thanks for the help and support from the entire Vehikl team. Check out Vehikl online: goo.gl/TdJjR7

Tech mentions: Laravel, Laracon, PHP, PHP 7, long term support (LTS), pivot casting, JSON, serialize array, dump and die, collections, transformation, pipeline, debug, class, framework, Symfony, service provider, stack trace, SOAP, validation, rule contract, callback, Node, boolean, filter, Ruby, exceptions, database schema, migration, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, sudo, Git, rebase, Vue, Bootstrap, React, front end presets, Blade templates, API, Javascript frameworks, Horizon