Update a Laravel Eloquent model and return the fresh model

model-update-return.php

<?php

// find the model, update the model, give me the fresh model
$updatedUser = tap(User::find(1), function ($user) use ($data) {
  return $user->update($data);
})->fresh();

In 5.4 you can:
$updatedUser = tap(User::findOrFail(1))->update($data)->fresh();

It's so wrong, but it's so Zonda!

If you don't want it to throw an error, you can even do:
$updatedUser = User::updateOrCreate(['id' => 1], $data)->fresh();

->fresh() is of course optional, but if you have some observers / save event handlers that modifies the model you'll want to be sure and fetch from DB.

Just checked the Laravel repo, and it seems like this was added in 5.4.20.

I am using laravel version 5.8.32

and tap(Model::findOrFail($modelId))->update($updateArray);

this works fine for me