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title: 'You can provide closures into the $default value in Laravel''s config helper'
tweet_id: '1555543655087099905'
thread_slug: weekly-thread-2022-31
author_username: realstevebauman
images:
    - 'https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FY1jGv3XgAQba6L.jpg'
created_at: 2022-08-05T13:18:02+00:00
slug: you-can-provide-closures-into-the-default-value-in-laravels-config-helper
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Huh, apparently you can provide closures into the $default value in Laravel's config helper. Neat! Pretty useful if you want to throw an exception if it's missing 👏