Laravel Playground

Published on July 14th, 2020 by Eric L. Barnes

Laravel Playground is a new free service from BeyondCode that allows you to try out Laravel code directly in your browser. You get full IDE auto-completion and can quickly try out all of Laravels features. It even includes popular Laravel packages, so you can quickly try out Laravel Debugbar, or get started writing your first Livewire component.

In the official announcement here is how Marcel Pociot describes how it works:

Laravel Playground is a sandbox for your Laravel code and the spiritual successor of Tinkerwell Web. Laravel Playground makes it easy to quickly tinker with any PHP and Laravel code right in your browser. You can embed it into your blog, documentation or website easily!

While the code for Tinkerwell Web was running entirely in your browser, Laravel Playground is running your code on actual servers. This allows you to quickly try out features such as request validation, multiple Laravel routes or even Livewire components!

Here is an example embed showing off some of the features:

```

/*
|-------------------------------------------



Welcome to Laravel Playground







Laravel Playground allows you to try out PHP and Laravel all from your browser.


You have access to all Laravel classes and an extensive list of included


Laravel packages (like Laravel DebugBar).





You can also load your own Gists!


Simply append /gist/{YOUR-GIST-ID} to the URL.





Do you want to see some examples?





Multiple views: https://laravelplayground.com/#/gist/d990a2c5f23b50564561b9266252f501


Form request validation: https://laravelplayground.com/#/gist/e5a0d029f6433e31672e55dd90429d3f


Livewire: https://laravelplayground.com/#/gist/286de510bfc0a88e697284e90ed1d7da





*/



Route::get('/', function (){
return view('playground', [
'title' => 'Laravel Playground'
]);
});
 



    
    Laravel Playground
    


    
        
            
                
                Laravel Playground - a BeyondCode product
            
        
        
            Welcome to {{ $title }}
            
                To learn more about the things you can do, take a look at the official documentation.
            
        
    



```

Welcome to Laravel Playground

Laravel Playground allows you to try out PHP and Laravel all from your browser.
You have access to all Laravel classes and an extensive list of included
Laravel packages (like Laravel DebugBar).

You can also load your own Gists!
Simply append /gist/{YOUR-GIST-ID} to the URL.

Do you want to see some examples?

Multiple views: https://laravelplayground.com/#/gist/d990a2c5f23b50564561b9266252f501
Form request validation: https://laravelplayground.com/#/gist/e5a0d029f6433e31672e55dd90429d3f
Livewire: https://laravelplayground.com/#/gist/286de510bfc0a88e697284e90ed1d7da

*/

This will be a really powerful service to quickly share code samples with friends, to ask for help, or to even share code on your blog posts. For more information check out the Laravel Playground and the documentation.