Native HTML/CSS features like dialog, the Popover API, CSS Anchor Positioning, and customizable selects are catching up to what libraries like shadcn and Radix provide. Here's what changed, what's possible now, and how it might reshape how we build frontend components at Spatie.
We just released v7 of laravel-query-builder, our package that makes it easy to build flexible API endpoints. If you're building an API with Laravel, you'll almost certainly need to let consumers filter results, sort them, include relationships and select specific fields. Writing that logic by hand for every endpoint gets repetitive fast, and it's easy to accidentally expose columns or relationships you didn't intend to. Our query builder takes care of all of that. It reads query parameters from the URL, translates them into the right Eloquent queries, and makes sure only the things you've explicitly allowed can be queried. // GET /users?filter[name]=John&include=posts&sort=-created_at $users = QueryBuilder::for(User::class) ->allowedFilters('name') ->allowedIncludes('posts') ->allowedSorts('created_at') ->get(); // select * from users where name = 'John' order by created_at desc This major version requires PHP 8.3+ and Laravel 12 or higher, and brings a cleaner API along with some features we've been wanting to add for a while. Let me walk you through how the package works and what's new.
We just released v10 of laravel-backup, our package that creates backups of your Laravel app. The backup is a zip file containing all files in the directories you specify, along with a dump of your database. You can store it on any of the filesystems Laravel supports, and you can even back up toβ¦
PHP 8.0 introduced attributes, and they're a great way to add structured metadata to classes, methods, properties, constants, and parameters. The concept is solid, but the reflection API you need to actually read them is surprisingly verbose. What should be a simple one-liner ends up being multiple lines of boilerplate every time. And if you want to find all usages of an attribute across an entire class, you're looking at deeply nested loops. We just released spatie/php-attribute-reader, a package that gives you a clean, static API for all of that. Let me walk you through what it can do.
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