5.6 Reviews, Vue, Dropzone and Useful Packages

New Laravel package from our team - demo video

Laravel 5.6 new features. See how you will going to use Collision package, Dynamic Rate Limiter, blade component alias.

Yesterday Taylor Otwell released Laravel 5.6 right before the Laracon Online conference. We had a little conference party here in Vienna and a great time watching all the talks together. In one of them Taylor walked us through the new Laravel features and I want to point out my top 3 of them.

This package adds a reviewable feature to your app. First, add the Naoray\LaravelReviewable\Traits\HasReviews trait to your model you want to add reviews to.

In one of our application, there’s a need to get list of data from a service. This data is used to generate report by background process, resulting a XLSX file that can be downloaded or attached to email. This service (an API) is written in Laravel.

I recently installed Horizon for Laravel.io and while it wasn’t that hard to install, I still had to figure some things out. Since this was the first time setting everything up I thought I’d write up the steps to take to get started with Horizon and set everything up with Forge and Envoyer.

CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) are the basic operations of data storage, and one of the first things you learn as a Laravel developer. But what happens when you add a Vue.

A live coding session in which I talk through the code behind "Name That Tune", runner-up winner at the first 2018 Larahack. Originally recorded for larastream.com.Apologies for the background noise - my girlfriend starting watching TV at some point during this...Game: https://larahack.mikkyx.co.ukS

Sometimes we may want to give our users the ability to like an item and add it to a favourties list. For example, if we are building an ecommerce app, it makes sense to implement some kind of a Wishlist, where users can add products they liked, and browse that Wishlist later.

File uploads with Laravel is incredibly easy, thanks to the powerful file system abstraction that it comes bundled with (go ahead and give a shout-out to Frank de Jonge for the awesome FlySystem package) .

This is the second part of a series of tutorials by Michael Heap, covering how to build a multi-channel help desk system with Laravel.

This Laravel package by Lars Janssen, allows you to put your application in an “Under Construction” mode and then only users with the correct 4 digit code can access your site.

The Laravel Model caching is a package by Mike Bronner that adds Model caching to model queries automatically. Here are the main highlight features from the package’s readme:

So today I was trying to run and see if I can manage to get Laravel dusk to run on Bitbucket pipelines, and after too many tests, I was able to do so ＼（＾ ＾）／.

In a rush? Skip to tutorial steps or live demo. That's our only PHP defender in the team, ranting.

Utility to fix common misspellings, typos in source codes. There are lots of typical misspellings in program codes. Typically they are more eye-catching in the living code but they can easily hide in comments, examples, samples, notes and documentations.