Workaround for Laravel's dd() debugging in new versions of Chrome

json_dd.php

<?php

/**
 * New versions of Chrome will not render html responses inside of ajax requests that requested json, which 
 * breaks Laravel's dd() helper method as well as eloquents' ->dd() methods, making it far more complicated 
 * to see what the generated SQL looks like. This is a simple workaround:
 */
 
 // instead of `dd($foo);`
 return response()->json($foo, 500);

 // instead of ->dd() in the Builder
 Foo::where('foo', 'bar')
     ->tap(function ($query) {
         http_response_code(500);
         echo json_encode(['SQL: ' => $query->toSql(), 'Bindings: ' => $query->getBindings()]);
      
         exit;
     });