Laravel 11.23, Pest 3.0, o1, Founder mode, SaaSykit Tenancy, and more!

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Ahmad
September 15, 2024

Laravel 11.23 released!

Laravel v11.23 released: Latest version includes new features and improvements from the Laracon US 2024 keynote.

Key highlights:

  • Taylor Otwell's new features: Introduces tools like chaperone(), defer(), and Cache::flexible() to improve app performance and code flexibility.

  • New documentation highlights: Updated guides on concurrency handling, contextual container attributes, automatic parent model hydration (chaperone()), and deferred function helpers.

  • Dimension validation rules: Adds minRatio() and maxRatio() for more precise image dimension validation.

  • Backed Enum support in Gates: Enhances authorization checks by using enums with Gate methods and Authorize middleware for cleaner code.

  • Skip Middleware for jobs: Allows jobs to be conditionally skipped in queues using when() and unless() methods.

  • Eloquent findOrFail(): Improves model lookup in collections, throwing exceptions when models aren't found.

Pest v3.0 is released!

Pest v3.0 was released last week. Here are the key features introduced:

  • Mutation Testing: Introduces small code changes to check if your tests detect them.

  • Arch Presets: Predefined rules for testing your application's architecture.

  • New Configuration API: Simplified and more intuitive configuration API.

  • Architectural Testing Improvements: New expectations, @pest-arch-ignore-line, and other enhancements.

  • Additional Features: Constants in Type Coverage, improved static analysis, and more.

SaaSykit Tenancy - It was a BIG week for SaaSykit!

Last week, SaaSykit Tenancy was released!

I spent the last few months building SaaSykit Tenancy, which is a multi-tenant variation of SaaSykit, that’s meant to provide a great starting point for multi-tenant SaaS projects.

SaaSykit Tenancy offers features like:

  • Seat-based subscriptions: Define subscription plans with a certain number of seats, and your SaaS users can subscribe to these plans. Once they do, a tenant will be created for them with the number of seats they subscribed to.

  • Flat-rate subscriptions: You can choose to offer your users the ability to have a tenant, invite users, assign roles & permissions, etc without having to subscribe to a plan with a certain number of seats. This is useful if you want to offer a flat-rate subscription plan. You can also limit the number of users that can be invited to a tenant.

  • One-time purchase orders: You can offer your users the ability to purchase one-time products, and once they do, a tenant will be created for them.

  • User Invitations: Tenant admins can invite other users to their tenant, and assign them roles & permissions. Upon invitation, the invited user will receive an email with a link to accept the invitation.

  • Team Management: Tenant admins can manage their team by assigning roles & permissions to team members, and remove them if needed.

  • Roles & Permissions: Define roles & permissions that can be assigned to users in a tenant, those will be available to the tenant admins to assign to their team members.

  • Automatic Billing: Once a user subscribes to a plan, billing will be synced automatically. Billing will be based on the number of seats if they have a seat-based subscription plan, or flat-rate if they have a flat-rate subscription plan.

  • Events: Listen to events that are fired when a user is added to a tenant, removed from a tenant, or invited to a tenant, so you can take actions accordingly.

  • Tenant dashboard: Each tenant has its own dashboard where the tenant admin can manage their team, subscriptions, and more.

  • Same user can be in multiple tenants: A user can be invited to multiple tenants, and can switch between them easily from the dashboard.

  • Plus all the other beauties from SaaSykit.

OpenAI to launch reasoning models (o1)

OpenAI has developed a new series of AI models designed to focus on deeper reasoning and problem-solving in areas such as science, coding, and math. The first model in this series is being released in ChatGPT and through the API as a preview, with regular updates and improvements anticipated.

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This uses Symfony Process under the hood, and adds a TON of quality-of-life improvements.

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Quote of the day

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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

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