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Laravel Mail Viewer

Laravel Mail Viewer is a package by Harish Toshniwal that enables you to view all the mailables in your Laravel application in a single place. Learn how this package helps you easily share mailables with co-workers and clients.

Safe PHP – Built-In Functions Rewritten to Throw Exceptions

In the project Safe PHP by David Négrier, all PHP functions that return ‘false’ are rewritten to throw exceptions instead. Learn more about this project, and how it works with namespaces to make built-in functions throw exceptions.

Sublime Merge

The folks at Sublime Text surprised us (well at least me) today with a new app called Sublime Mere—a git client from the makers of Sublime Text.

Laravel Health Panel

The Laravel Health Panel by Antonio Ribeiro is a package for Laravel that checks if the application’s resources are running as expected. Learn more about the dashboard, service configurations, and API health check routes this package provides.

Announcing Docker for PHP Developers Video Course

Since the release of his book in January, Laravel News writer Paul Redmond, has been working on a Docker for PHP Developers video course, a hands-on, tutorial style book + videos on using Docker and PHP in development. Today, the Docker for PHP Developers video course is available for purchase!

PHP 7.3’s First Release Candidate is Here

PHP 7.3 is inching closer to general release (planned for December), with today’s announcement of the first PHP 7.3 release candidate. Learn about the remaining timeline leading up to the general release of PHP set for December of this year!

Visual Studio Code Adds a GitHub Pull Request Extension

The Visual Studio Code team, in collaboration with GitHub, released a public preview of a new extension: GitHub Pull Requests inside of Visual Studio Code. Learn about the new extension, how you can install it, and how you can contribute to the development of this extension.

Nova Packages

Laravel sponsor Tighten created novapackages.com to showcase Nova packages built by the Laravel community. The site is an index of user-contributed packages around Laravel Nova, in a beautiful, searchable index. Users can search, submit, and rate packages, as well as get individual package details and installation instructions.

Laravel 5.7 is now released!

Laravel 5.7 is now released and available to everyone. This release introduces several new features and many bug fixes and improvements over 5.6.

Vue Devtools 5.0 Beta is Here

Guillaume Chau, a member of the core Vue.js team, announced Friday that the Vue.js devtools 5.0 beta release it out! Learn about the new features coming to Vue Devtools 5.0, and where to install the extension.

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.

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.