Code health updates

[xHeaven]

• Updated old str_* methods to newer PHP 8 str_* methods
• Marked implicitly nullable parameters as explicitly nullable, as implicit nullability is deprecated since PHP 8.4
• Fixed a typo
• Added missing typehints wherever it made sense
• Replaced tap() with defer() in a test - tap() is deprecated, it is essentially an alias for defer()

[xHeaven]

Tests are failing due to this PR: #150

Should we just remove the --disk option from the call?

[freekmurze]

I've remove that faulty test on main. Could you rebase to check if the tests now pass for this PR?

[freekmurze]

We still have some failing tests it seems

[xHeaven]

We still have some failing tests it seems

Interesting, apparently tap() is deprecated since a specific version of Pest but doesn't exist yet in older versions.
Should I revert 7a3dc0d (#151) or should we add some kind of conditional based on some criteria (whether defer() exists or not perhaps)?

[freekmurze]

I'd be ok with a conditional. But I'd also be ok with just dropping support for older Laravel / Pest / PHP versions to fix this.

[xHeaven]

I'd be ok with a conditional. But I'd also be ok with just dropping support for older Laravel / Pest / PHP versions to fix this.

What are the lowest versions that you want to support?
With "pestphp/pest-plugin-laravel": "^1.3|^2.3" changed to "pestphp/pest-plugin-laravel": "^2.4" I think anything above PHP 8.1 and Laravel 10 should be fine.

Do you want to consider dropping PHP <8.1 support as well as Laravel <10 support?

[freekmurze]

Do you want to consider dropping PHP <8.1 support as well as Laravel <10 support?

I'm pretty aggressive with dropping older versions, so this is certainly ok 👍

[xHeaven]

Do you want to consider dropping PHP <8.1 support as well as Laravel <10 support?

I'm pretty aggressive with dropping older versions, so this is certainly ok 👍

Glad to hear, I like to keep things fresh as well. Working on it, I will push a commit in a few minutes.

[xHeaven]

Looks pretty green to me, prefer-lowest tests got a few deprecation warnings with PHP 8.4 (Laravel Ray, Log facade being old in L10), but that's it.

[freekmurze]

Perfect, thanks!