"Laravel 10 is boring". *GOOD* . If I wanted to spend endless nights debugging ever-changing code, spend endless hours to stay up-to-date with the latest update that changes release version by "0.00.01" yet makes half code broken, then I'd work as a Javascript developer. No, like many, I make a living by delivering reliable, polished, consistent software. Laravel is very good but it always grated me the heavy "magic functionality" usage and the too frequent updates. Now we finally get something that won't break my schedule.
Completely agree. I still have a LOB app running on Laravel 5.3. When I look at the upgrade guide and the amount of breaking changes to move it up, I wonder in awe who is doing this in a production environment. Laravel is fantastic, but I think most users are the kind churning out greenfield apps and projects and then moving on to the next exciting thing. When it comes to supporting Laravel apps longer term in a real world production business environment, where development is just one of the hats I have to wear, stability and business continuity is the name of the game.
The fun never ends when there's upgrades... laravel/framework replaces illuminate/support and thus cannot coexist with it. - illuminate/support[v6.0.0, ..., v6.19.1] require php ^7.2 -> your php version (8.2.0) does not satisfy that requirement. - illuminate/support[v7.0.0, ..., v7.28.4] require php ^7.2.5 -> your php version (8.2.0) does not satisfy that requirement. - illuminate/support[v8.0.0, ..., v8.11.2] require php ^7.3 -> your php version (8.2.0) does not satisfy that requirement. and so on and so on...will get it all resolved eventually but as always it's more painful than anticipated.. 🤦♂
Laravel 10 requires php8.1 at least. Unfortunately, I have php8.0 since my servers are stateless EC2 built over Amazon Linux 2 which ships with 8.0. So I think I will be stuck with Laravel9 for a while
I have a problem. I want, should, update laravel to the latest LTS (9) version. The project is on 5.5. But the project is not small. Divided into modules. Has anyone done a similar update? Updating by version doesn't seem like a solution. You have to look for all the problems every time. And not all of them will be found. It seems that the best thing would be to take a new 9 version and transfer all the code. There will just be a lot of mistakes. 100% Until they are caught, there will be a lot of "trouble". Any suggestions?
It's not something that could be answered in a short RU-vid comment. I'm thinking to maybe create a course on such scenario but still not sure, as such upgrade is usually weeks of work, not even days or hours. And yes for such old version I would probably recreate from scratch and copy parts
Your videos are always so great! They make me want to get back into coding. But I can't keep up any more. I spend hours debugging my apps and it takes me too long. Great video as always.
It's a long process. I would use Laravel Shift for this and upgrade version by version. Alternatively, create a new Laravel 10 project and then copy-paste separate parts from the old application. Also writing automated tests is a must for this. It would be actually a good course if your project is small and you're happy to share the code in public so I could help :)
