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Five Minutes with Justin Jackson
Laracon US is still a few months away and this year it has an awesome line up of speakers. One of the new faces is Justin Jackson, who is what you could call a habitual maker. He launches more...
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How To Install OctoberCMS on Ubuntu
October is one of the leaders in Laravel CMS’s alongside Craft and Statamic. It was originally released in 2012 and is popular with developers tired of WordPress. The attractions are that it’s easy to...
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Laracon Online Conference Feedback
For the Laracon Online conference, we used the new Laravel application, Thermostat by Ian Landsman, to handle both rating and feedback. The results of this survey is now released and made public. You...
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F-Bar – Manage your Laravel Forge Servers from your Mac’s Menubar
F-Bar is a brand new Mac App made by EASTWEST, that allows you to manage your Laravel Forge servers from your Menubar. Last month Laravel released its first official Forge API, and F-Bar utilizes this...
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Ubuntu Server DNS Resolver Issues
This morning many people, including Laravel News, are experiencing that their sites are erroring when communicating with third party systems. The hostnames couldn’t be resolved and causing all those...
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Using Variables in Your .env File
Laravel’s .env file is included to use, so it’s easy to have a different configuration based on the environment your app is running on. This gives you the flexibility to have different variables for...
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Laravel Package To Login As Other Users During Development
For websites with advanced ACL functionality, developers often find themselves manually logging in as a different user, then switching back to their own account. This can prove to be a tedious...
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PhpStorm Improves Support for Laravel Blade
PhpStorm just released version 2017.1 and it includes many improvements including support for Codeception, PhpUnit 6.0, and more PHP 7.x features. Beyond these, it also adds support for @includeWhen,...
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Angular 4.0 Is Now Released
Angular 4.0 is now released and is not only smaller & faster, but also has an improved *ngIf and *ngFor, source maps for templates, and more. *ngIf and *ngFor The template binding syntax now...
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What Empathy Is Not
Communication can not work without empathy and that’s why empathy is hopefully the most important factor in your company’s culture. Every once in awhile, someone does a talk or writes a post about why...
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You Can Now Follow Laravel Release Announcements From Medium
The Laravel team has just created a new Medium publication where you can see all of the official releases and update announcements across all of the Laravel projects and products. Previously, the...
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In Laravel 5.5 You Can Render Mailables to the Browser
When you are building custom HTML email templates, it’s typically a chore to test them across all the email clients, and testing them over and over. There are a few tools like Litmus which help solve...
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Building a User Invitation System with Laravel
In the not too distant past at ubisend, we needed to build a solution to provide our users the ability to invite additional users to manage their account. This is a pretty common problem. Think about...
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Running Dusk tests on Travis CI and CircleCI
Laravel Dusk allows us to write end-to-end tests for JavaScript enabled applications by running an actual browser, which simulates an actual user interaction with our applications and provides us with...
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Laravel 5.5 Adds Support for Email Themes in Mailables
In Laravel 5.4, we were introduced to Markdown emails, which allow us to compose emails in Markdown while leveraging Blade’s Components and Slots. Laravel ships with a range of pre-defined components...
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Laravel 5.4.17 is released
Today Laravel released v5.4.17 and it includes several new features including a Collection Times method, improvements to the migrations, and more. Collection::Times() Thanks to Joseph Silber the...
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Utilizing Laravel’s Cache with Query Params
Laravel provides a very intuitive and useful means of caching the responses of your projects, whatever your project is (RESTful API, Web Platform, etc.). In general, Laravel can store in the cache...
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Laravel Forge PHP SDK
Laravel Forge announced it’s first official API back in February and we have seen a lot of interesting uses like the F-Bar Mac app. Today, Mohamed Said released a PHP SDK for the API that covers all...
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Laravel OPcache Package
PHP, since version 5.5, comes bundled with OPcache which improves performance. Here is how PHP documentation explains it: OPcache improves PHP performance by storing precompiled script bytecode in...
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Which Laravel Helper Do You Use for Your URLs?
Jacob Bennett did a Twitter poll to see what the community uses for referencing URLs in their Laravel applications. With 500 votes, the overwhelming majority (77%) said they use the route() helper:...
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