Supercharge your Laravel 8 Collections

Laravel is amazing when it comes to what it offers right out of the box. It makes our lives as developers just that much easier. Collections are a big part of Laravel. They come with a ton of methods. But sometimes you need a little extra.

I recently came across an amazing package: spatie/laravel-collection-macros.

Getting up and running with it couldn't be any simpler. All it takes is one composer command:
composer require spatie/laravel-collection-macros

and the package will automatically register itself!

The package macros in the following methods:

• after
• at
  • second
  • third
  • fourth
  • fifth
  • sixth
  • seventh
  • eighth
  • ninth
  • tenth
• before
• catch
• chunkBy
• collectBy
• eachCons
• extract
• filterMap
• firstOrFail
• fromPairs
• glob
• groupByModel
• head
• ifAny
• ifEmpty
• none
• paginate
• parallelMap
• pluckToArray
• prioritize
• rotate
• sectionBy
• simplePaginate
• sliceBefore
• tail
• try
• toPairs
• transpose
• validate
• withSize

I wouldn't be surprised if some of these make their way into upcoming Laravel versions. Having recently used paginate() & simplePaginate() on collections, all I can say is this works like a charm.

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Comments

[Benjamin Delespierre]

That's such a great idea.

Also I think it's worth noting that EloquentCollection can be specialized on a model basis like this:

class User extends Model
{
    public function newCollection(array $models = [])
    {
        return new UserCollection($models);
    }
}

class UserCollection extends Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection
{
    public function admins(): self
    {
        return $this->filter($user => $user->isAdmin());
    }
}

So you can do

User::all()->admins();

(this example is purposefully oversimplified and in that specific case, one would better use scope...)