Laravel 7 Released! Features and Improvements of Laravel 7

Author: Techmoweb Experts

Laravel 7 has released with new exciting features and many more extra things you should know. Before going to discussion about Laravel 7 features,firstly we know what Laravel is.

Laravel is an open source new generation web application and highly used framework that designs customized web applications quick and easy.Developers choose Laravel over to other frameworks because of the performance, features, scalability it offers. Laravel follows Model View Controller (MVC) which makes it more powerful than PHP.

Laravel’s updated major frameworks are released every six months, while minor and patch releases may be released as often as every week.

Laravel updated newer version adds some new features and fixes old bugs.

As per information of official website of Laravel, Laravel 7 has an officially release on 3rd March 2020.

Features and Improvements in Laravel 7

Laravel 7 is on the way to continues the improvements made in Laravel 6.x. Laravel 7 have new features like custom Eloquent casts, routing speed improvements, Laravel Airlock, Blade component tags, fluent string operations, a developer-focused HTTP client, first-party CORS support, increase scoping for route model binding, stub customization, database queue improvements, multiple mail drivers, query-time casts, a new artisan test command, and a variety of other bug fixes and usability improvements.

Here is the list of Laravel features.

  1. Laravel Airlock
  2. Zttp for HTTP client
  3. CORS Support
  4. Custom Eloquent Cast
  5. Fluent String Operations
  6. Blade X
  7. Customizable Stubs
  8. Query Time Casts
  9. Multiple Mail Driver
  10. New Artisan Command

Laravel Airlock

It is an official package for API authentication. Laravel gives a featherweight authentication system for SPAs, mobile applications, and simple, token based APIS.It permitted each user of your application to create multiple API tokens for their account.

Zttp for HTTP Clients

It will be good & cleaner way to make an HTTP request to an API endpoint.

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