13/2022

content/authors/alexjgarrett.md

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 username: alexjgarrett
-avatar: 'https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1481608755590615042/Z0usTfe-_normal.jpg'
+avatar: 'https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1501500078816739329/xDWzyhtN_normal.jpg'
 name: 'Alex Garrett-Smith'
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content/threads/weekly-thread-2022-13.md

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+---
+slug: weekly-thread-2022-13
+title: 'Weekly thread #13 of 2022'
+tweet_id: '1509994014090711041'
+author_username: archtechx
+created_at: 2022-04-01T20:40:01+00:00
+links: {  }
+---
+🔥 This week's code tips for Laravel developers
+
+A weekly thread 🧵

content/tips/understand-the-difference-between-fresh-and-refresh-one-returns-a-fresh-new-instance-while-the-other-refreshes-an-existing-instance.md

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+title: 'Understand the difference between `fresh()` and `refresh()`. One returns a *fresh* new instance, while the other *refreshes* an existing instance'
+tweet_id: '1509994020109316096'
+thread_slug: weekly-thread-2022-13
+author_username: mattkingshott
+images:
+    - 'https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPBT9FCXoAUMen2.jpg'
+created_at: 2022-04-01T20:40:03+00:00
+slug: understand-the-difference-between-fresh-and-refresh-one-returns-a-fresh-new-instance-while-the-other-refreshes-an-existing-instance
+---
+🔥 #Laravel Tip: Ever wondered what the differences are between an Eloquent model’s ‘fresh()’ and ‘refresh()’ methods? Let’s see what each of them do with this little cheatsheet.

content/tips/you-can-freeze-time-in-tests.md

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+---
+title: 'You can freeze time in tests'
+tweet_id: '1509994017227886594'
+thread_slug: weekly-thread-2022-13
+author_username: AshAllenDesign
+images:
+    - 'https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FO8k5kAWYAAip2V.jpg'
+created_at: 2022-04-01T20:40:02+00:00
+slug: you-can-freeze-time-in-tests
+---
+❄️In your Laravel tests, you might sometimes need to freeze the time.
+
+This is particularly useful if you're trying to make assertions based on timestamps or need to make queries based on dates and/or times.
+
+#laravel #php

content/tips/you-can-now-call-newline-on-stringable-instances.md

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+---
+title: 'You can now call `newLine()` on Stringable instances'
+tweet_id: '1509994032033804290'
+thread_slug: weekly-thread-2022-13
+author_username: djgeisi
+images:
+    - 'https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPCdrxkWUAASAm5.jpg'
+created_at: 2022-04-01T20:40:06+00:00
+slug: you-can-now-call-newline-on-stringable-instances
+---
+#PHP #Laravel
+Since todays Laravel 9.6 release a new newline() method was added to the Stringable Class.
+
+Thanks to @paulandroshchuk who contributed this

content/tips/you-can-queue-closures.md

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+---
+title: 'You can queue Closures'
+tweet_id: '1509994028997169158'
+thread_slug: weekly-thread-2022-13
+author_username: alexjgarrett
+images:
+    - 'https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FO7OX-ZX0AEQooG.jpg'
+created_at: 2022-04-01T20:40:05+00:00
+slug: you-can-queue-closures
+---
+I had no idea you could queue closures in @laravelphp until today.

content/tips/you-can-transform-variables-passed-to-translation-strings-right-in-language-files.md

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+---
+title: 'You can transform variables passed to translation strings right in language files'
+tweet_id: '1509994034877534212'
+thread_slug: weekly-thread-2022-13
+author_username: ecrmnn
+images:
+    - 'https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPB_HCDXsAUhtvh.jpg'
+created_at: 2022-04-01T20:40:06+00:00
+slug: you-can-transform-variables-passed-to-translation-strings-right-in-language-files
+---
+Did you know that translation variables can easily be capitalized or converterd to lowercase and uppcase in Laravel? 🆙🌍

content/tips/you-can-use-constrained-eager-loading-to-increase-performance-of-database-queries-that-use-relations.md

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+title: 'You can use constrained eager loading to increase performance of database queries that use relations'
+tweet_id: '1509994025926885381'
+thread_slug: weekly-thread-2022-13
+author_username: mattkingshott
+images:
+    - 'https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOsQc3JXEAgF1P6.jpg'
+created_at: 2022-04-01T20:40:04+00:00
+slug: you-can-use-constrained-eager-loading-to-increase-performance-of-database-queries-that-use-relations
+---
+🔥 #Laravel Tip: Eager loading a model’s relationships is a great way to improve performance / avoid the N+1 problem. However, you can go further… with constrained eager loading you can tell Laravel to only load the related records you actually need.

content/tips/you-can-use-notificationassertnothingsentto-to-check-that-no-notifications-were-sent-to-a-specific-usernotifiable-model.md

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+title: 'You can use `Notification::assertNothingSentTo()` to check that no notifications were sent to a specific user/notifiable model'
+tweet_id: '1509994037830332416'
+thread_slug: weekly-thread-2022-13
+author_username: AshAllenDesign
+images:
+    - 'https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FO8nW9TXsBExZTp.jpg'
+created_at: 2022-04-01T20:40:07+00:00
+slug: you-can-use-notificationassertnothingsentto-to-check-that-no-notifications-were-sent-to-a-specific-usernotifiable-model
+---
+🚀 You can now use the new "assertNothingSentTo" method in your Laravel tests.
+
+You can use this to ensure that no notifications were sent to a given notifiable model (or models)!
+
+#laravel #php

content/tips/you-can-use-use-wherebetween-to-filter-for-records-between-two-timestamps.md

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+title: 'You can use use `whereBetween` to filter for records between two timestamps'
+tweet_id: '1509994023083147264'
+thread_slug: weekly-thread-2022-13
+author_username: ecrmnn
+images:
+    - 'https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FO8rgMGXsAkX0SD.jpg'
+created_at: 2022-04-01T20:40:04+00:00
+slug: you-can-use-use-wherebetween-to-filter-for-records-between-two-timestamps
+---
+How to retrieve records between two timestamps in Laravel 🗓  Use whereBetween with a from and to date. If you need to provide fallback you can do so with the nullish coalescing operator ❔❔