Archive for Aug 2018

Manage Maintenance Mode in Laravel Nova

If for some reason you’ve been on another planet (see what I did there?), [Laravel Nova is Now Available](https://laravel-news.com/laravel-nova-release) and the community has been rather busy building open-source tools around Nova.

One of those open-source tools is by David Piesse, who created a Laravel Nova extension that allows you to manage the maintenance mode of your application from Nova.

Alfred Search Workflow for Vue.js

Vue.js search workflow for Alfred by Vince Mitchell based on and adapted from Till Krüss’ Alfred Laravel Docs workflow. We’ve covered a few different Alfred search workflows, which are useful for full stack developers using Laravel, Vue.js, and PHP.

Testing Artisan Commands in Laravel 5.7

Laravel 5.7 is going to improve how you write Artisan console commands, with a new API contributed by Laravel employee Mohamed Said. Check out the new testing API as well as links to the documentation!

Laravel Enum Package

Laravel Enum is a package by Ben Sampson that adds support for creating enums in PHP and includes a generator for Laravel. Check out a few examples of this package in action and learn how you can use it to validate enum data from a controller and create localized enum fields.

ZSH Auto Suggestions

ZSH autosuggestions is a stand-alone plugin for ZSH that you can also easily incorporate as a plugin for the popular Oh-My-ZSH Zshell framework created by by Eric Freese. Learn how this plugin can supercharge your command line history.

Laravel 5.6.34 Released

We’ve had an exciting week in Laravel-land, with the launch of Laravel Nova on Wednesday! Tuesday’s release of Laravel 5.6.34 released quietly before Nova, bringing a few changes and a URL validation compatibility fix for PHP 7.3.

Laravel 5.7: New Pagination Link Customizations

Laravel 5.7 has a new pagination method to customize the number of links on each side of the paginator. Thanks to the new method you no longer need a custom pagination view. Check out how to use this new feature and the implementation.

Laravel Nova is Now Available

This announcement is not a drill! Laravel Nova is now available for purchase starting today! You can purchase your copy now!

Laracon US 2018 Videos Are Now Released

All the videos from Laracon 2018 Chicago are now released on and available to watch

PHP Docs Workflow for Alfred

PHP Docs workflow for Alfred by Bill Clark is a workflow that enables you to search the PHP documentation with a few keystrokes. Learn how to install this workflow on Mac OS X and increase your productivity!