Laravel 2015 In Review
Published on by Eric L. Barnes
As 2015 comes to a close it’s a great time to look back on just what all happened throughout this year and it was busy for Laravel.
We seen Laravel 5.0 and 5.1 released and a new microframework Lumen. Also, some of our favorite tools like Elixir and Homestead received nice upgrades. All that plus two conferences, many meetups, and an active and vibrant community. It’s awesome to see.
Coming up next is going to be the release of Laravel 5.2 and the official Laravel Spark. It appears there is no slowing down.
Below is a timeline of some of the events and resources from this year.
Laravel 5 was released to great fan fare.
Laravel Slack Chat
Laravel Slack chat was announced to the world. It has grown to almost 7,000 members.
Real Time Refactoring
Adam Wathan refactors in real time. Little did we know this would be shaping his Laracon talk.
Gistlog, the blogging engine powered by GitHub gists launched.
Changelog Podcast
Taylor was featured on the Changelog podcast talking about Laravel and it’s ideals.
Blackfire with Homestead
Laravel Homestead added support for the SensioLabs Blackfire Profiler.
Jack McDade
Interview with Jack about the new design for Laravel.com.
Laravel Debugbar
A short review of everyone’s favorite debugging system.
Laracasts started a series on covering advanced Eloquent topics
Envoyer Launched
Taylor launched Envoyer that offers simple zero down time deploys.
Spanish Laravel Documentation
Fernando Montoya has started translating the Laravel documentation for the Spanish community.
Laravel is number one, again
Laravel won Sitepoint’s framework survey for the second year in a row
Mike Dugan
In March we lost a friend and great person.
The fast microframework Lumen launched.
Laravel 5.1 hints started dropping
As with all new releases, Taylor started sharing new features early.
The first Laravel LTS was announced.
Socialite Providers
The community created a massive list of 70+ socialite providers.
Easy E-Commerce
I launched my first book on Laravel and Stripe.
Laravel In South Korea
Spotlight on a user group in South Korea
NinjaGrl created a painting for Lumen.
Laravel 5.1 Released
LTS, PSR-2, and easier unit testing!
Packagist got a new skin
Packagist, the PHP Package repository, received a new design. I should have taken a screen shot of the before and after.
PHP Turned 20
PHP as a language had a birthday
Freek Van der Herten
I interviewed Freek who created a ton of stuff this year.
Laravel Jobs
LaraJobs turned one
Povilas Korop started a new site sharing daily Laravel Tips that he discovers while using the framework.
Elixir Version 3
Version 3 features true sequential tasks, more explicit logging, and easier configuration.
Php Pandas
Dayle Rees launched a new intro PHP book.
Laracon was held in Louisville KY on August 11th.
Laracon EU
Laracon EU was the week after the US conference.
Laravel 5.1.11
Laravel 5.1.11 was released, featuring a brand new Authorization or ACL system to make restricting access easier than ever.
The alpha version of Laravel Spark was announced.
Tutorial: Multilingual Support in Eloquent
A guest post by Freek Van der Herten
Laravel Doctrine
A project to create a drop-in Doctrine2 implementation for Laravel 5+.
PHP 7 was official yet but Homestead added support.
Elixir added Browsersync
Laravel Elixir 3.3 was released and included support for Browsersync
Model Factories
Laravel News featured a tutorial on Model Factories
Add Tagging to Laravel
A tutorial on how to add tagging to your Laravel app
Elixir With Bootstrap
A tutorial to help you setup bootstrap with Laravel Elixir
Laravel News Podcast
I started a new podcast here on Laravel News
A list of some new features to the next version of Laravel
Homestead added MySQL 5.7 and Node 5
Support for the MySQL JSON column type.
Laracon 2016 dates announced
Get ready for Laracon 2016 and mark your calendars.
Laravel php[world] keynote
Taylor gave a keynote at php[world] and they recorded the talk.
PHP 7 was released to the world.
PHP 7 Video
Zend made a video announcing PHP 7 with elePHPants.
LaraVer Released
Mike Bronner created a new app to keep up with Laravel changes
Koel Music Streaming
Phan An created a new music streaming app built with Laravel.
Laravel 5.2 is released
The much anticapted Laravel 5.2 was released and includes multiple authentication driver support, implicit model binding, simplified Eloquent global scopes, opt-in authentication scaffolding, middleware groups, rate limiting middleware, array validation improvements, and more.
Eric is the creator of Laravel News and has been covering Laravel since 2012.
