New Features in Laravel 5.5:
1. Frontend Presets
2. DD and Dump for Easy Debugging
3. Custom Email Theme Setup
4. Custom Validation Rule
5. Laravel 5.5 Require PHP 7+
6. Laravel Auto Package Discovery
1. Frontend Presets
As we all know Laravel 5.4 have vue.js as preset front end JavaScript but Laravel 5.5 will be introduced with 3 front ends preset: Vue.js as default, react.js and bootstrap, you can change as per your preference.
you can change the preset to bootstrap using this command:
php artisan preset bootstrap
We can change the preset to react and vue by replacing the bootstrap in above command, Laravel 5.5 will also provide the option to remove the all 3 to load your own JavaScript or PHP backend only app by the following command:
php artisan preset none
2. DD and Dump for Easy Debugging
In collection class of Laravel 5.5, two methods will be introducing for easy debugging-DD and Dump, let’s understand by simple example:collect([1,2,3])->map(function($i){
return $i * 3;
})->reject(function($i){
return $i < 3;
});
collect([1,2,3])->map(function($i){
return $i * 3;
})->dump()->reject(function($i){
return $i < 3;
});3. Custom Email Theme Setup
Today’s new era of software industry brand expression is most important in every process of the product while a user interacts with it, In an earlier version of laravel we can easily send the email but has been sent using default email template. If you want to use your branding in Laravel 5.4 then you need to follow below steps:
You can start by generating a CSS file containing your custom styling like below:
You can start by generating a CSS file containing your custom styling like below:
// my-design.css is the name of your theme
resources/views/vendor/mail/html/themes/my-design.css
'markdown' => [
'theme' => 'my-design',
'paths' => [
resource_path('views/vendor/mail'),
],
],
//Create css style sheet
resources/views/vendor/mail/html/themes/techuzITFirm.css
class SendInvoice extends Mailable
{
protected $theme = 'techuzITFirm';
...
}
4. Custom Validation Rule
Laravel 5.5 will introduce the dedicated class to handle the
validation, to define the custom validation rule you need to create the
class with two methods: Passes and message, let’s take an example to
understand better:
<?php
namespace App\Rules;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Validation\Rule;
class HireProfessionalLaravelDeveloperIndia implements Rule
{
public function passes($attribute, $value)
{
return $value > 5;
}
public function message()
{
return ':attribute needs more Developers!';
}
}
5. Laravel 5.5 Require PHP 7+
Laravel 5.5 will have PHP 7+ version, it will improve the speed of
web application and will save a cost for your project. You can check the
report of engineering team of tumblr who have recently implemented the
PHP 7+ version
“Almost immediately saw the latency drop by half, and
the CPU load on the servers decrease at least 50%, often more. Not only
were our servers serving pages twice as fast, they were doing it using
half the amount of CPU resources – Tumbler engineering report“
“Etsy is a popular PHP-based online marketplace for
handmade and vintage goods that has been in operation since 2005 (29
million items listed on its website, 54 million registered users, among
them 1.4 million active sellers, and 19.8 million active buyers).
Initially it was written in PHP 5, and later, was switched to HHVM
(Virtual Machine for PHP). After migration to PHP 7, Etsy was
significantly better from such perspectives as the memory and
system/user CPU usage, homepage/listing delivery speed and number of
hosting servers – Etsy Case Study”
6. Laravel Auto Package Discovery
In earlier version developer had to write the following package step
to register its service providers and adding aliases before pulling,
Laravel 5.5 have new cool way for package developer, you can review the
Taylora’s post for more detail.
Install the package:
composer require school/kids
School/Kids\ServiceProvider::class,
‘Bar’ => School/Kids\Facade::class,
New cool way to write the pull request automatically register service
providers and add aliases through the package’s composer.json in Laravel
5.5
"extra": {
"laravel": {
"providers": [
"School\\Kids\\ServiceProvider"
],
"aliases": {
"Bar": "School\\Kids\\Facade"
}
}
}
Register the provider in app.php:
Optionally, register Facade:
