daily-email: add 2023-04-23

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+---
+title: >
+  Laravel Pipelines
+pubDate: 2023-04-23
+permalink: >
+  archive/2023/04/23/laravel-pipelines
+tags:
+  - php
+  - laravel
+---
+
+I've seen a lot on social media and posts and videos recently about Laravel Pipelines - functionality that's been present in Laravel and used within the framework for some time - but there was only documentation added for it last month as part of the Laravel 10 release.
+
+This is an example from the new documentation:
+
+```php
+$user = Pipeline::send($user)
+    ->through([
+        GenerateProfilePhoto::class,
+        ActivateSubscription::class,
+        SendWelcomeEmail::class,
+    ])
+    ->then(fn (User $user) => $user);
+```
+
+Once a user has registered, it is passed through different classes - each performing a task and calling the next class in the list, similar to middleware. Once finished, a final action is performed or a value is returned.
+
+As someone who doesn't use Laravel often but does use standalone components - like `illuminate/collections` - in other PHP projects, I'm interested to see how I can use this via `illuminate/pipeline` to refactor some of my existing code.