Laravel version 5.4 is officially released! This version brings many new features and improvements to original functionality.

Laravel Dusk

Laravel Dusk is an end-to-end browser testing tool. For applications developed with JavaScript, Dusk can provide page interaction testing. Therefore, you can use Dusk to test click buttons, links, forms, and even drag and drop functions.

Dusk leverages the testing capabilities implemented by ChromeDriver and Facebook's Php-webdriver. It can work with the Selenium browser, but since it comes with ChromeDriver, you don't need to install JDK or Selenium.

Dusk is very easy to use, there is no need to set up Selenium or start the service every time.

Laravel Mix

Laravel Mix is ??the successor of Elixir. Mix abandoned Gulp and embraced webpack. The name change this time is to highlight the significance of this change.

Unless you've customized your Elixir setup, migrating to Mix is ??a piece of cake.

Markdown email

Laravel 5.3 has introduced two new features about email: Mailables and Notifications, which can help you send the same message through email, SMS, or other channels.