What's New in Laravel 7

Blade components have received a significant update as part of Laravel 7. In addition to a new Vue-like syntax, any component may now be backed by a view model (of sorts).

Laravel 7 ships with a new Stringable class that provides a fluent object-oriented interface for manipulating strings.

We can now create custom Eloquent cast types. This, as an example, would allow you to transform one or more attributes into a dedicated type (like a value object). The key is to prepare a class that implements the CastsAttributes interface.

Laravel 7 includes some useful improvements to route model binding. You may now specify a custom route key name without adding a getRouteKeyName() method to the associated model. Instead, simply add the custom key as part of the route declaration: /posts/{post:slug}. Additionally, when specifying custom keys, Laravel will automatically scope them to a parent relationship if relevant.