What's New in Laravel 5.5

Here we go again! Currently scheduled for an August release date, we're on the verge of Laravel 5.5. With that in mind, let's get a head start on the new features and additions to the framework. As always, there's quite a few!

• Laravel 5.5 Installation and Whoops
• Streamlined Request Validation
• Fresh Migrations
• Frontend Presets
• Automatic Package Discovery
• Faster Email Layout Testing
• Silky Smooth Custom Validation Rules
• Collection Dumping
• Model Factory Generation
• Custom Blade "If" Directives
• What's New in Laravel Mix
• Auto-Registering Artisan Commands
• Higher Order Tap
• The RefreshDatabase Trait
• New Blade Directives
• Route Helpers
• Toggle Exception Handling Within Your Tests
• Cleaner Exception Rendering
• Optional Objects
• API Resources