Laravel Evolution

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Who created Laravel?

  • Taylor Otwell (correct)
  • Elon Musk
  • Mark Zuckerberg
  • Jeff Bezos

When was Laravel's first beta release made available?

  • July 9, 2011
  • June 9, 2011 (correct)
  • June 1, 2011
  • September 2011

Under which license is the source code of Laravel released?

  • Apache License
  • GNU General Public License
  • MIT License (correct)
  • Mozilla Public License

What feature was lacking in Laravel 1, preventing it from being a true MVC framework?

<p>Support for controllers (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of class auto loading in PHP?

<p>Automated loading of PHP classes without the need for manual maintenance of inclusion paths (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the role of view composers in Laravel?

<p>Serve as customizable logical code units that can be executed when a view is loaded (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the Blade templating engine do in Laravel?

<p>Combines one or more templates with a data model to produce resulting views (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of IoC containers in Laravel?

<p>Make it possible for new objects to be generated by following the inversion of control (IoC) principle (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do migrations provide in Laravel?

<p>A version control system for database schemas (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the role of database seeding in Laravel?

<p>Populate database tables with selected default data for application testing or initial setup (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of Homestead in Laravel development?

<p>Provides Laravel developers with necessary tools for development, including Ubuntu, Gulp, and other development tools (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Sail provide in Laravel development?

<p>A great starting point for building a Laravel application using PHP, MySQL, and Redis without requiring prior Docker experience (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

When was Laravel 5.1 released?

<p>June 2015 (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which version of Laravel introduced semantic versioning?

<p>Laravel 6 (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What feature was introduced in Laravel 5.4?

<p>Laravel Dusk (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which version of Laravel added support for Laravel Vapor?

<p>Laravel 6 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Laravel 7 introduce?

<p>Laravel Sanctum (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which version of Laravel brought support for more database management systems?

<p>Laravel 3 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

When was Lumen 5.0 released?

<p>Based on Laravel 5.x series of PHP components (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What feature was added in Laravel 5?

<p>Remote storage through Flysystem (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which version of Laravel was the first LTS release?

<p>Laravel 5.1 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Laravel 4 introduce?

<p>Email support (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

When was Laravel 8 released?

<p>September 8, 2020 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

When was Laravel 10 released?

<p>February 14, 2023 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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Study Notes

Evolution of Laravel Framework and Key Features

  • Laravel 3, released in February 2012, introduced features like Artisan CLI, support for more database management systems, database migrations, event handling, and Bundles packaging system
  • Laravel 4, released in May 2013, was a complete rewrite with layout migrated into separate packages through Composer, and added features like database seeding, message queues, email support, and soft deletion
  • Laravel 5, released in February 2015, brought support for periodically executed tasks, remote storage through Flysystem, improved package asset handling, and simplified authentication through Socialite
  • Lumen 5.0, an initial release of the Lumen framework, optimized for speed, was based on Laravel 5.x series of PHP components
  • Laravel 5.1, released in June 2015, was the first LTS release, followed by planned LTS versions every two years
  • Laravel 5.3, released on August 23, 2016, focused on improving developer speed with additional out-of-the-box improvements
  • Laravel 5.4, released on January 24, 2017, introduced features like Laravel Dusk, Blade Components and Slots, Markdown Emails, Automatic Facades, and Route Improvements
  • Laravel 6, released on September 3, 2019, introduced semantic versioning, compatibility with Laravel Vapor, improved authorization responses, lazy collections, and sub-query improvements
  • Laravel 7, released on March 3, 2020, added features like Laravel Sanctum, Custom Eloquent Casts, Blade Component Tags, Fluent String Operations, and Route Model Binding Improvements
  • Laravel 8, released on September 8, 2020, brought new features like Laravel Jetstream, model factory classes, migration squashing, and Tailwind CSS for pagination views
  • Laravel 9 was released on February 8, 2022
  • Laravel 10 was released on February 14, 2023, with changes in the support timeline for bug fixes and security fixes for major releases from version 8 and onwards

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