The latest Laravel news, tips, and tutorials

News / January 15, 2020

Laravel 6.11.0 Is Here

Laravel 6.11 was released this week with a firstWhere() eloquent builder method, optimized multi-channel broadcasting in Redis, and the latest fixes and changes in the 6.x branch.

Customizable Feedback Component for Laravel

The laravel-kustomizer package is a customizable feedback widget for your Laravel applications. It allows you to implement a customer feedback component on your website using Vue.js, but you can apply it in any frontend tool of your choice.

by Paul Redmond

packages

News / January 13, 2020

Monitoring Your Laravel App with Scout APM (sponsor)

Scout APM is excited to launch support for Laravel apps. They’ve been monitoring thousands of Ruby, Python and Elixir apps for years and are thrilled to be bringing their developer-centric tools into the PHP community. Here’s an overview of how to get up and running with Scout in just a few minutes.

by Eric L. Barnes

News / January 10, 2020

Store Extra Columns as JSON With Laravel Overflow

Laravel Overflow is a package by Logan H. Craft that allows adding an overflow column to a form request. An overflow column contains request values in a JSON or TEXT column in the database.

by Paul Redmond

packages

News / January 09, 2020

Early Version of Laravel Airlock is Available for Testing

Taylor Otwell shared that an early version of Laravel Airlock is currently available on GitHub. Airlock “provides a featherweight authentication system for SPAs and simple APIs.”

by Paul Redmond

News / January 08, 2020

Laravel v6.10 Is Here

The Laravel team released v6.10 with eleven new features and a significant amount of fixes, deprecations, and optimizations. This release also starts to introduce framework support for PHPUnit v9 which is due out February 2020.

by Paul Redmond

Releases

Podcast / January 07, 2020

Craters, Canvases, and Blueprints

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Craters, Canvases, Blueprints, and all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.

by Jacob Bennett

News / January 07, 2020

Access Bear Notes in Laravel

Bear-Sync is a package by Caleb Porzio that provides an Eloquent model that can access local Bear Notes data without any configuration at all.

by Paul Redmond

News / January 06, 2020

Useful Laravel Packages Video Course (sponsor)

Useful Laravel Packages is a comprehensive video course teaching you how to use the most popular Laravel Packages to jump-start your web applications.