5.5/5.6 News, Vue SPA and Taylor's wife

Oh, it’s a Tuesday release.

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.

In this tutorial, we continue Building a Vue single-page application (SPA) with Laravel by learning how to load async data from a Laravel API endpoint inside a Vue component. We will also look at error handling when an API response returns an error and how to respond in the interface.

An interview with Abigail Otwell, wife of Laravel creator Taylor Otwell and co-owner of Laravel LLC. Matt Stauffer: Welcome back to the Laravel Podcast. Today, we're going to be talking to Abigail Otwell, the woman behind the man behind Laravel. Stay tuned. [music]

The entire Laravel community is pretty excited about the upcoming Laravel Event of the Year – Laracon Online 2018. The webinar will be streamed online on It is expected that the entire who’s who of the Laravel community will attend the event.  

If you are here, then I guess you are faced with the problem that gave me too a sleepless night. Lumen doesn’t include the notification process in their documentation. However, I am glad to infor you that you can use the laravel notification dependencies too in Lumen.

Whether you're building a simple blog or a full-on enterprise application, at some point you're going to need an admin section to manage your project. One of the hardest parts of building an admin section is getting a feel for how robust it should be.

Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant box that allows you to develop amazing applications without installing prerequisites such as PHP, a web server and other development software on your machine. Homestead runs on Windows, Mac or Linux environments.

Suppose you run a website and want to split part of it into a package with its own repository. You start a new repository and check it out on your development machine. But now you want to see how the website and your new package integrate. How to go about this?

A last seen property on a user is a fantastic metric, particularly for B2B SAAS companies. It allows you to know when users might be waning off of using your service. You can then use this information to follow up through a call or email to reduce your user/customer churn rate.

Since Laravel v5.5.29 you can group collections by multiple levels. Let's see what this means and how this works. So this article is about a new feature in Laravel. But before we check that out, let's see how it worked before. groupBy is a method of the Collection class.