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7 Laravel 8 Features You May Not Know
As a PHP developer, Laravel is one of the most popular PHP frameworks amongst web developers. With Laravel, developers are already provided with a lot of features/functions that we can use to build our next great app. And the good thing about Laravel is because they have a very great community. We can easily find forums as well as Laravel communities if we need some answers with Something. Because it has a very big community, Laravel continuously updates & upgrades its versions so we have the most edge-tech technology.
On September 8, 2019, Laravel released version 8 that comes with very exciting and surprising new features. For me, Laravel 8 is a great upgrade because some of the features require us to work differently than we’ve ever done before. Of course, all of the updates only intend to make the PHP & Laravel workflow become better. So in this article, I’ll show you 7 new feature updates that you may not know yet.
#1 Maintenance Mode
In the previous version when we want to make our website down/maintenance, this what we can do via artisan.php artisan downAnd it has some additionals options such as — message, — retry, or — allow.
In Laravel 8, we have additional options:
