PHP 8.4 Features You're Probably Not Using Yet in Your Laravel App

Originally published at hafiz.dev If you followed the Laravel 13 upgrade path , you're running PHP 8.4 by now (or you should be, since Laravel 13.3+ pulls in Symfony 8 components that require it). The upgrade guide covers the migration steps, but upgrading your runtime and actually using the new language features are two different things. Most Laravel developers upgrade PHP, confirm their tests pass, and keep writing the same PHP 8.1-style code they've always written. That works, but you're leav