Laravel, the beloved PHP framework for web artisans, has arrived at its latest iteration - Laravel 11! This release focuses on streamlining the development process while introducing a set of powerful new features to enhance your application building experience. Let's dive into some of the key highlights and explore them with code snippets for a practical understanding.
Streamlined application structure:
Laravel 11 has a simplified app folder structure. Unnecessary configurations and folders have been removed to make it easier for new developers to get started and to reduce clutter for experienced developers.
Automatic database creation for new installations:
When you install a new Laravel 11 application, SQLite is now the default database and a database file is created automatically. This eliminates the need for additional software installation or manual database creation.
Improved application health checks:
Laravel 11 introduces a new health endpoint that can be used by third-party applications to monitor the health of your Laravel application. There is also a new health event that developers can use to add custom health checks.
Graceful encryption key rotation:
This feature helps to prevent users from getting locked out when the application key is changed. Laravel 11 can now decrypt values using previous keys in addition to the current key.
Improved job testing:
Laravel 11 introduces a new assertQueued method for testing jobs. This makes it easier to test whether a job was queued, dispatched, or deleted.
These are just a few of the new features in Laravel 11. Additional features include per-second rate limiting, model casting improvements, and new Artisan commands.
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