New Features in Laravel 9 What’s New in the Latest Major Release

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Laravel 9 What’s New in the Latest Major Release

Laravel is:

Laravel is a PHP web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.

Flexible, scalable, and adaptable. able to create web applications of every size. strictly follows the MVC architectural pattern. praised for its slick and elegant syntax.

What’s New in LARAVEL 9 ?

Laravel 9 is the next long-term support version (LTS) that will receive bug fixes until February 2024 and security fixes until February 2025.

Here are some of the major features:

Feature 1

Controller Route Groups

Laravel 9 lets us define common routes as controller group routes, making route definition more readable and easy. Let’s see how it looks

Feature 2

Minimum PHP Requirement

A number of other prerequisites will be specified within the future with regards to Laravel 9. You will need PHP 8, PHPUnit 9, as well as other prerequisites.

The Laravel framework depends on several community-driven and Symfony 9 libraries.

Feature 3

Anonymous Migration Classes

Laravel sets to introduce anonymous stub migration as a default behavior when you execute the popular migration command:

When you execute the popular migration command in Laravel, anonymous stub migration is the default behavior:

Feature 4

New Helper Functions

Feature 5

Refreshed Ignition Error Page

Feature 6

Render a Blade String

Feature 7

Forced Scope Bindings

Feature 8

Test Coverage with XDebug

Feature 9

Laravel Scout Database Engine

Feature 10

Full Text Indexing

Laravel 9 also includes full-text indexing for MySQL and PostgreSQL. New migrations will include a fulltext() method and a whereFulltext() method on your Eloquent builder.

Feature 11

Enum Attribute Casting

Feature 12

Simplified Accessors & Mutators

Laravel’s getXAttribute and setXAttribute API for declaring accessors and mutators will remain unchanged, but a simplified approach will be recommended going forward.

Feature 13

PHP 8 String Functions

Because Laravel 9 targets PHP 8, Laravel merged this PR, suggesting using the new string functions in PHP 8. The class /Illuminate/Support/Str uses functions str_contains(), str_starts_with(), and str_ends_with().

Feature 14

New Query Builder Interface

With Laravel 9, developers will still be able to take advantage of the new query builder interface for type hinting, refactoring, and static analysis.

Feature 15

Bootstrap 5 Pagination Views

Laravel 9 also includes full-text indexing for MySQL and PostgreSQL. New migrations will include a fulltext() method and a whereFulltext() method on your Eloquent builder.

Feature 16

Checked/Selected Blade Directives

Ashley Allen and Taylor Otwell contributed, checked, and selected Blade directives. In the older version, we had to specify a specific condition for selecting the checkbox and dropdown.

Laravel’s version 9 addresses this issue by adding @checked and @selected blade components for selecting data, and it will only select data if a specific condition is met.

Feature 17

Improved route: list CLI Output

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