Archive for Jan 2018

Laravel 5.6 adds the Collision Package for CLI Error Reporting

Created by Nuno Maduro, Collision is a package designed to give you beautiful error reporting when interacting with your app through the command line. Starting in Laravel 5.6, Collision will now come preinstalled as a dev composer dependency.

Laravel 5.5.33 Is Now Available, Learn About What’s in the New Release

Laravel v5.5.33 is now available as of Monday, January 29th with some excellent convenience methods ranging from the query builder to collections and testing.

Building a Vue SPA with Laravel Part 2

In Part 2 of Building a Vue SPA with Laravel, we are going to load async data from a Laravel API endpoint in a Vue component and look at error handling when an API response returns an error.

If you recall, in part one we wired up a Vue single page application (SPA) with Laravel and Vue Router. We are going to build on our SPA foundation by adding async API requests.

Safely Seed Your Vue Components with Blade Double-encoding

You can easily embed JSON data in your Vue components with a new Blade double-encoding method. If you use Vue components with a server-side application like Laravel, chances are that you’ve seeded Vue components with some JSON data or user-generated content (UGC). This new Blade method will help you solve your Vue component JSON encoding issues once and for all!

A Zero-config Purgecss Wrapper for Laravel Mix

Sebastian De Deyne over at Spatie is working on a Purgecss package for Laravel Mix. The package provides zero-config Purgecss for your average Laravel project!

Announcing F-Bar for Laravel Forge on iOS

F-Bar is an iOS application to manage and monitor your Laravel Forge servers from your Apple device, by Jan Östlund. Using the Forge API, you have access to your servers on the go!

Capture Any Website Within a High-Quality Mockup in Seconds with Screenpeek

Screenpeek is a tool built to take screenshots of websites and place them within a high-quality mockup. Built by Hans Pagel and Philipp Kühn, this application is a valuable tool for quickly making mockups of websites and applications instead of setting them by hand in Sketch or Photoshop, which can be tedious work.

Announcing Docker for PHP Developers

Docker for PHP Developers is a new ebook by Paul Redmond, a hands-on, tutorial style book on using Docker with PHP. Today, the book is available for purchase!

Laravel 5.6 will Support the Argon2i Password Hashing Algorithm

The Argon2i password hashing support has landed in Laravel 5.6 and will be available once it’s officially released.

Introducing VivifyScrum EDU – free online Scrum course (sponsor)

VivifyScrum.com, a project management tool for agile collaboration, has recently launched their free online Scrum course – VivifyScrum EDU. This course reveals the basics of Scrum framework, through various examples and practices based on real-life experience.