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Laravel 5.5 will require PHP 7.0+
Laravel has always been a framework that isn’t afraid to push forward and Taylor just announced on Twitter that Laravel 5.5 will require PHP 7+. The 5.5 release is not scheduled until July of 2017 so...
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Ottomatik – Super Simple Backups (sponsor)
Ottomatik is a service to automatically backup your files and databases on schedule and off-site. You can also bring your own S3 account for unlimited backup storage and fully control your data. Some...
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Build Custom Admin Panels With Backpack for Laravel
Backpack for Laravel is a collection of packages which allows you to create admin panels for any web app quickly. It provides a set of useful packages divided into three categories that will make the...
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Just-In-Time Knowledge: How to learn what you need to know and forget the rest
Technology—including the web—moves insanely fast. It can be intimidating (often annoyingly so) to try to not only consume the content constantly served to us, but also retain it. After all, isn’t the...
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Laravel Elixir Will Be Renamed To Laravel Mix
Laravel Elixir first came out in October of 2014 and aimed to make automating concatenation, and general file watching easier than setting it up manually. Built on top of Gulp as a wrapper to remove...
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Deployments, Backups and Cron Scheduling (sponsor)
Are you deploying your sites through FTP or SFTP and are tired of it taking forever? Deploy-Tantra is the answer by automating your deployments by watching your repo and then automatically deploying...
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Laravel Dusk Is Coming to Laravel 5.4
When you write end-to-end tests, Laravel provides a set of useful helper methods which make it easy to click a link, fill an input field, or submit a form. Under the hood, Laravel uses the Symfony...
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Run PHPUnit Tests From Sublime Text
Sublime Text is a great editor. It’s lightweight, fast, and extremely customizable. However, one downside to it compared to a full blown IDE is it doesn’t come with support for running your PHPUnit...
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How to Use Old Versions of Laravel Homestead
There are two parts to Homestead: the Vagrant box and the Homestead source code (Homestead app). The Homestead Vagrant box is a snapshot of a preconfigured virtual machine ready to use. This saves you...
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LaraChat Launches a New Site
LaraChat, the Laravel Slack community, launched a new website that makes it easy to signup for the chat, a section archive for their video roundtable discussions, and more. LaraChat’s goal is to make...
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80 Laravel Tutorials, Packages, and Resources from 2016
As 2016 is coming to a close it’s a great time to look back on the year and see just how much progress has been made. Laravel had a busy year with 5.3 being released, Laracon, updates to all the...
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Automatic Facade’s coming to Laravel 5.4
Coming in Laravel 5.4 is a new feature that will allow you to use any class as a Facade on the fly. If you are not familiar with Laravel Facades here is what they are: Facades provide a “static”...
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2016 Laravel Survey Results
Back in September, we partnered with LaraJobs to run a Laravel survey to see what types of projects people are taking on with Laravel as well as get some feedback on what the Laravel community could...
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SameTime: Group Text Reminders App Built on Laravel
SameTime is a new web app by Tommy and Joey Marshall that will automatically send a text message to you and a group of eight friends on a designated schedule. “We’d lament on a weekly basis how we...
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Not Secure Warnings are Coming to Chrome 56 – Add an SSL to prevent it
Chrome announced back in September that they want to move towards a more secure web, and one they plan to accomplish this is by marking HTTP pages that collect passwords or credit cards as non-secure....
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Laravel Powered Blogging App Canvas Launches V3
Canvas, the minimal blogging app built on Laravel has just launched V3, and it includes many new features including moving the core code out into a new Easel package. Here are some highlights of the...
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Finding Suitable Work: What Hiring Managers Are Looking For
A large component to finding suitable work is being a proficient interviewer. One of the things many devs lean on when landing a better paying job is their ability to do well during the technical...
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Laravel Scheduler Adds Support for Running Hourly Tasks on a Certain Minute
The Laravel Scheduler now includes a new method hourlyAt that will allow you to define the minute within the hour that it should run. This helpful in situations where you have a task that should run...
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Bear: Beautiful Note Taking App for iPhone, iPad and Mac
I am a fiddly writer. I store all of my written prose as text files in Dropbox. Not only are my writings saved for many future generations, but I am not locked into any particular writing ecosystem. I...
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Seven Tips to Learn Laravel More Effectively
As the community grows, there are many resources available to help you learn Laravel. That’s great! But, how do you choose the best one? Which will be the best use of your time to read or watch? For...
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