What’s new in Laravel 6.0?
The new version of Laravel – Laravel 6 has been released on 3rd September 2019. The importance of this release is that Laravel 6 uses Semantic Versioning. The new version is out with 8 exciting features like Laravel Vapor compatibility, enhanced authorization responses, job middleware, lazy collections, and sub-query improvements.
Laravel LTS Support
Laravel 6 Long-term Support (LTS) releases provide end-to-end support and maintenance. Bug fixes are provided until 3rd September 2021 and security fixes are provided until 3rd September 2022. While for General releases, bug fixes are provided for 6 months and security fixes are provided for 1 year.
Here, we have listed the amazing Features of Laravel 6:
Laravel Vapor
Laravel Vapor is a Serverless Deployment Platform to work efficiently with the Framework. It uses Lambda, AWS’s Function as a Service to run Laravel Applications as a Function that is only called when it is needed.
Semantic Versioning
Laravel 6 follows Semantic Versioning. This makes the framework compatible with the other first-party Laravel Packages which were already following this versioning standard. In this standard, Version Numbers and the way they differ tells about the underlying code and what has been modified from one version to the next.
Job Middleware
Job Middleware is a feature applied by Taylor Otwell. It allows every task to run through the Middleware. Web Developers can wrap Custom Codes into a Middleware around the execution
of queued tasks. You can reuse the Middleware throughout the Tasks.
Improved Authorization Responses
In earlier versions, it was difficult to provide Custom Error Messages to End Users, in terms of Authorization. It was difficult to clarify why the request was denied. Laravel 6 has introduced a Gate::inspect method that provides improved Authorization responses.
Lazy Collections
Laravel boasts powerful Collection methods. LazyCollection feature in the new version deals with the large datasets. It allows you to keep the Memory usage, low. Web Application Developers can choose to load only one model into the memory, instead of loading everything at a time.
Eloquent Subquery Enhancements
It is easy to run complex queries with Eloquent. This new release will benefit you more when it comes to running a Subquery or a query within a query in a single call. This is helpful when you need to select information from two tables with a relationship.
Improved Exception Handling via Ignition
Laravel 6.0 comes with Ignition, an open-source Exception Page created by Freek Van der Herten and Marcel Pociot. Massive benefits of Ignition include improved Blade error file and line number handling, runnable solutions for common problems, code editing, exception sharing, and an improved UX.
Laravel UI
The frontend scaffolding provided with the older version is now pulled out as a separate laravel/ui Composer package. This allows first-party UI scaffolding to be developed separately from the primary framework.
Consequently, no Bootstrap or Vue code is present in the default framework scaffolding. To use Laravel UI package, you need to run the below command:
composer require larvae/ui
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