5.5 News, Vue/Angular/React and MANY packages

Traditional newsletter of our QuickAdminPanel generator - so if you're interested in our progress, check out new functions from this week - we're currently focused on international multi-language projects.

Laravel v5.5.1 was tagged on September 1st to address several issues that slipped through the cracks.

Laravel v5.5.2 was tagged and ships as usual with a couple of nice additons and bugfixes.

The Laravel 5.5 Shift automates the upgrade from Laravel 5.4 to Laravel 5.5. Using the Laravel 5.5 Shift to automatically upgrade your Laravel application has an estimated time savings of 1 hour. It's important to remember Laravel 5.5 is the latest version. As such, both Laravel and the Laravel 5.

In Laravel 5.5, resource classes allow you to transform your Eloquent models into the proper JSON data structure.

Laravel 5.5 is out! and with it, a new `Optional` class (with optional() helper) that is one of those “why didn’t someone think of this years ago?” improvements. Image a User that may not yet have a Profile associated with them. So the normal relationship is set up:

Laravel 5.5 Validation Example From Scratch is the topic; we will cover today. Laravel 5.5 has officially released and ships with one validation feature called Custom Validation Rules. If you have installed composer, then type the following command to install latest Laravel Framework version.

At Rever (www.reverscore.com) we just released a new version of our web client using Vue.js. 641 commits and 16 weeks of intense development after with two resources, here we are, very proud of a decision we took a while ago. 8 months ago our web client was using Angular 2.

Database transaction gives us power to perform data multiple modifying operations such as DELETING, UPDATING AND INSERTING data to our database more safely. With laravel framework, database transactions can be implemented simply by wrapping all query operations inside a DB::transaction() method.

GitLab features our applications with Continuous Integration, and it is possible to easily deploy the new code changes to the production server whenever we want.

I'm currently building a web application using Laravel 5.4 as my framework and Laravel Forge as my hosting provider, utilising the awesome power of Bitbucket Pipelines as a deployment system. I'm using PHPUnit and Laravel's in-built testing methods to acheive Test Driven Development (or TDD).

Clean Code PHP (jupeter/clean-code-php), is a guide based on the book Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftmanship, a classic programming book about writing maintainable code by Uncle Bob Martin.

In this series you will learn how to create your first Laravel Package. You will also learn how to submit it to packagist to make it available for other users to require your package in their application

If you are following along with the tutorial started here https://serversideup.net/installing-configuring-laravel-spa/, we will now begin to install the Laravel packages that allow for authentication with an oAuth provider. Then we will set up our own oAuth provider. Yea it’s a lot of oAuth.

The way your website looks on social media is crucial. You only have a title, a short description and an image to attract viewers attention. And the first thing they’ll notice, is the image.

It’s no secret that I love Laravel, and especially love Eloquent. This post isn’t about why various people don’t like Eloquent, etc, etc. but just some “life hacks” of working with Eloquent.

Today we are excited to launch a new feature for Laravel Forge: database selection. Previously, all Forge servers were provisioned with both MySQL (or MariaDB) and PostgreSQL. No customization of this behavior has been offered in the past. However, beginning today, you may select MySQL 5.

So in this article series, we will start by setting up a web app that allows for a consumable API in the back end and authentication with social providers. We will then move to a mobile app using Cordova and the same components we used. The app will be an SPA on the web side and the mobile side.

PhpStorm has released a new feature that allows you to quickly find and edit the theme style for a given line you want to change. To change the theme style for a given line, put your cursor on the line you want to change, press Double Shift (Search Everywhere), and type Jump to Colors & Fonts.

The Laravel Shareable Models package allows you to generate shareable links from your Eloquent models. Think dynamic routes which only exist for models that have been shared.

BotMan is a framework agnostic PHP Chatbot framework designed to simplify the task of developing innovative bots for multiple messaging platforms, including Slack, Telegram, Microsoft Bot Framework, Nexmo, HipChat, Facebook Messenger, WeChat and many more. BotMan 2.

The easiest way to install BotMan Studio is via the installer. It is basically like the Laravel Installer. Your application is now already installed. When you use Laravel Valet you can directly check the homepage, botman-facebook.dev in my case. Here you will see the BotMan Studio welcome page.

laravel-medialibrary is probably one of our most powerful packages. It can associate files with Eloquent models. It can also generate derived images such as thumbnails. It has a very developer-friendly API to work with. Here’s a quick example:

Get rid of anything related to files in Laravel, This package handles all for you. Handles your public assets (.css, .js, .etc) you can use your CDN provider to serve the static assets. with a simple function call. For instance you can serve your static files through Rackspace CDN.

Churn PHP is a Command Line Interface (CLI) tool that helps you discover PHP files that might need refactoring. At a high level, Churn examines files in the path you provide and: churn-php only assists the developer to identify files for refactoring.

This rule will validate that a given timezone is valid within the systems datetime database. This project is licensed under an Apache 2.0 license which you can find in this LICENSE.

Enable users to watch various models in your application. Include the service provider within app/config/app.php.