Upgrade v7 to v8

My initial plan was to make this update with as minimal changes as possible. But Livewire evolves quickly and it turned out to become a complete rewrite.

Whats new

• All fields (almost) can be used as headless components

• Component to render fields only

• Component to render a form without buttons

• Form in modal component, with new stub, and artisan cmd

• Supports Alpine v3 and php8

• Aliases for fields

• Language files

• Validation errors as stacked Alpine notifications

• two new spinner icons, animated with Tailwind

• Default form properties and most methods are protected from frontend

• public saveFoo() is now protected saveFoo()

• The Spatie Tags field is deprecated.

• New Tags field

• New TagsSearch field (replaces Spatie Tags)

• Added support for $view->slot(...)

• Set field validation attribute name

• Form properties are moved from mount() to formAttr()

• DatePickerAlpine if no default date/time is set + the field is required, auto-fills the input with current time, formatted to guessed, user timezone.

• Supports both Tailwind 2 and 3, read the manual installation steps for tailwind config, laravel mix and theme.

Requirements

• See Requirements page ->

Upgrading steps

• Upgrade tall-forms

• Publish language files

• Publish/merge theme

• Publish/merge config

• artisan cache:clear, config:clear, view:clear

• npm run dev

• Read upgrade guide, apply changes

• (publish and merge changed views)

• (review extended Blade classes)

• (review custom Fields)