Laravel 8.x Shift

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This pull request includes the changes for upgrading to Laravel 8.x. Feel free to commit any additional changes to the shift-8.x branch.

Before merging, you need to:

• Checkout the shift-8.x branch
• Review all pull request comments for additional changes
• Update your dependencies for Laravel 8
• Run composer update (if the scripts fail, add --no-scripts)
• Thoroughly test your application (no tests?)

If you need help with your upgrade, check out the Human Shifts. You may also join the Shifty Coders Slack workspace to level-up your Laravel skills.

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ℹ️ The RouteServiceProvider no longer prefixes the controller namespace by default in Laravel 8. While you may still set this property, you are encouraged to register your routes using static ::class references.

You may automate the conversion to static class references using the Shift Workbench.

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ℹ️ Laravel 8 introduced class based factories. Shift automated this change. However, if you were using a community package for factories or other custom code, you should review your factories for additional changes.

If you encounter an issue, you may revert this commit and temporarily install the laravel/legacy-factories package. You may then automate the conversion to class based factories using the Shift Workbench.

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ℹ️ Laravel 8 added a uuid column to the failed_jobs table to support the new job batching features.

If your application is currently using the failed_jobs table, you may generate a custom migration for this command by running:

php artisan make:migration AddUuidToFailedJobsTable

Then copy and paste the contents from Shift's AddUuidToFailedJobsTable class to add the uuid column and generate UUIDs for your existing failed jobs.

[laravel-shift]

ℹ️ Laravel 8 added a new ENV variable of LOG_LEVEL. While the log level is defaulted in the configuration, you may take this opportunity to set it accordingly in your environments.

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ℹ️ Shift updated your dependencies for Laravel 8. While many of the popular packages are reviewed, you may have to update additional packages in order for your application to be compatible with Laravel 8.

Watch dealing with dependencies for tips on handling package incompatibilities.

[laravel-shift]

⚠️ Laravel 8 now requires PHPUnit 9 which made some configuration changes to its config file. You may automate these changes by running vendor/bin/phpunit --migrate-configuration or comparing your phpunit.xml to the Laravel 8 version and merging any changes.

[laravel-shift]

ℹ️ Laravel 8 reintroduced the app/Models folder by default. This is an optional change. Laravel and the artisan commands will automatically detect if you are using the app/Models folder or not.

If you wish to modernize your application to use the app/Models folder, you may run the Namespace Models Shift for free.