What’s New to Know about Laravel 5.3: Here’s the Story Covered

This article details on the latest features being hosted by the latest Laravel 5.3 version, all of which are more precise and result-oriented.

With the Laracon US Conference 2016 already being sold out just a month ago, the Laravel 5.3 version is being released just after few days. This latest version is expected to meet the diverse requirements of dynamic web environments. This web application framework boasts an elegant and expressive syntax, thereby offering an innovative and enjoyable experience in terms of authentication, sessions, routing and caching.

Thus, maintaining the lore of redefining their standards with the release of every latest version, Laravel 5.3 also comes with a series of avant-garde features which, are hereby discussed.

Blade’s foreach $loop

With this new release comes a new feature; a $loop variable present inside the foreach loop. This variable offers you a series of properties which, can help us to manage the increments, indexes in loops easily. Now, while deploying the platform of laravel 5.3, we will be able to do the same.

Multiple Migration paths

Earlier, whenever, you install a Laravel package which, needs the task of database migration, it needs you to copy a number of migrations into the migration folder. But with Laravel 5.3, a package will be able to define its path of migration and while you run the PHP artisan migrate, all the migrations will function without compelling you to clutter the migration directory.

Query Builder will Return a Collection

The query builder is used for returning an array. If you want to perform a wide array of operations based on the returned dataset, you need to loop via the array. However, collections make it pretty simple for us to handle. Because of this reason, alike the ORM, the query builder returns a collection of the objects.

Migration Rollback in Steps

Instead of rolling back the entire migration, now, the Laravel Programmers will be able to rollback in a series of steps with the latest Step flag, being added to Artisan.

Customizing Simple Pagination

This platform brings back the ability of customizing simple navigation along with the views. You can even use the pagination templates as per your preference, however, it’s still a benign feature to have.

Laravel Echo

Echo is stated to be improvement over the present event broadcasting system, which seamlessly integrates with the Pusher’s JavaScript library. Echo comes with an npm package which, makes the task of deploying sockets on the frontend easier.

Some of the other features being included in this version are:

  • Eloquent collections are properly serialized, thereby re-pulled by the queued jobs.
  • Queue console output is being changed to highlight the actual class names.
  • FirstOrCreate: Now, it allows a series of additional parameters.

Laravel is highly accessible, yet extremely powerful to provide the efficient tools required for robust, large applications. Moreover, with this updated version, businesses are expected to perform their tasks more efficiently, thereby enabling them to develop requirement-specific solutions.

Jonathan Paul Is one of the most skilled laravel programmers of  PHPProgrammers, who has extensive knowledge and expertise on the ‘very’ same domain and delivers best-in-class solutions to clients.


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