Laravel 8 new features

Laravel 8 released on September 8th, 2020. Laravel 8 comes with lots of new featurs and improvements made in Laravel 7.x
Laravel 8 introducing Laravel Jetstream, model factory classes, migration squashing, job batching, improved rate limiting, queue improvements, dynamic Blade components, Tailwind pagination views, time testing helpers, improvements to artisan serve, event listener improvements.

Improvements to artisan serve

Before Laravel 8 we had to be manually stopped and restarted server when ever we made changes in .env file. But Laravel 8 the Artisan serve command automatically reloaded when environment vriable changes are detected in .env file.

Models Directory

Laravel 8 add Models directory under app directory. When we generate model through command, Laravel put model under Models directory. if this directory doesn’t exist, the framework will assume the application keeps models within the app/ folder.

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