Your Teacher | Jeffrey Way
Hi, I'm Jeffrey. I'm the creator of Laracasts and spend most of my days building the site and thinking of new ways to teach confusing concepts. I live in Orlando, Florida with my wife and two kids.
About This Episode
Published on Aug 30th, 2017
Laravel 5.5 includes a new helper() function, which you can think of as a generic null object implementation. Have you ever run into the situation where you need to fetch a property from a relationship, but it's possible that the relationship itself returns null? Well now we have a cleaner way to do this.
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