🔥 #Laravel Tip: Using custom error messages for failed request validation is straight out of the docs, but it’s amazing how rarely it gets used. Make your apps better and improve their UX by giving users more guidance in solving validation errors.

🔥 #Laravel Tip: Macros provide a way to add missing functionality to many parts of the framework, such as the query builder. These macros can be "user-facing", but they don't have to be. Sometimes they can be used just to make your tests simpler (or to aid in debugging).

💡 You can define HTTP macro to configure common request paths and headers when interacting with services throughout your application. #laravel #laravelphp #laraveltips #laraveltricks #laravelupdates #laravelfeatures

TIL, in Laravel you can display debug information about the current query with dump() and dd() 🤙 This allows you to see the underlying query and bindings.

🔥 #Laravel Tip: Sometimes you want to validate part of the request's data, but you don't actually need the data (and must make a point of filtering it out) e.g. a bool confirming the user accepts terms and conditions. In these situations, use the 'exclude' validation rule.

🔥 #Laravel Tip: Instructing the database to delete a huge number of records is likely to make it fall over (esp. when using cascade deletion). However, you can avoid this by staggering the process into batches and adding pauses to allow the database time to catch up.

🌶️ #Laravel Tip: Prefer Eloquent over Query Builder when performing updates, inserts, etc. When using Query Builder to update a record in DB, $fillable, $guarded, & the rest of Eloquent goodies are ignored. https://t.co/mi0YBvEP5z #Laravel #PHP #development

🔥 #Laravel Tip: Eager loading model relationships is way more efficient, however if used blindly, it can result in the fetching of data that you don’t actually need. To help avoid this problem, consider adding a constraint to the query…

💡If you ever need to run processes from Laravel such as Git commands or OS-related commands, check out the Symfony Process component. It’s awesome! Let’s see some examples. 🧵Keep Reading