Learning

A selected list of tutorials, articles, and resources on Laravel and related topics. Brought to you by Chirag Gude (aka @chiraggude).

Essentials

Packages

This is a list of well-documented, tested packages that are frequently used in Laravel projects. If you’re looking for an exhaustive list of PHP packages, then check out the Package Repositories mentioned above.

Developer Tools
Testing & Debugging
Authentication & Authorization
Utilities
Media & Document Management
Integration with Javascript
Databases, ORMs, Migrations & Seeding
  • Algolia Search - Integrates the Algolia Search API to the Laravel Eloquent ORM
  • Elasticquent - Elasticsearch for Eloquent models
  • Plastic - Fluently mapping and searching Elasticsearch
  • Laravel Search - Unified API for Elasticsearch, Algolia, and ZendSearch
  • SearchIndex - Store and retrieve objects from Algolia or Elasticsearch
  • Searchable - Trait that adds a simple search function to Eloquent models
  • TNTSearch - A fully featured full text search engine written in PHP
  • TNTSearch driver - Driver for Laravel Scout search package based on TNTSearch
APIs
  • ApiGuard - Allow API authentication with API keys
  • Dingo API - Multi-purpose toolkit for developing RESTful APIs
  • Laravel CORS - Add CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) headers support
  • Laravel Fractal - Output complex, flexible, AJAX/RESTful data structures with Fractal
  • Laravel GraphQL - Supports Relay, eloquent models, validation and GraphiQL
  • Laravel Responder - Build custom API responses with Fractal
Tasks, Commands and Scheduling
  • Dispatcher - Scheduler for Artisan commands
  • Elixir - Node (NPM) package to run Gulp tasks
  • Mix - Fluent API for defining basic webpack build steps
  • Envoy - SSH Task Runner
Payments
Optimization
Monitoring
Localization
Third-party Service Integration

Development Setup

  • Homestead - Official Vagrant box for Laravel
  • Valet - Development environment for Mac users
  • Valet Linux - Development environment for Linux users
  • LaraDock - Run Laravel on Docker (Like Homestead but for Docker instead of Vagrant)
  • LaraEdit Docker - Homestead environment in a single Docker container
  • Laragon - Isolated development environment on Windows
  • Stacker - The environment for local web development on Docker
  • Devilbox - A dockerized and general-purpose LAMP/MEAN stack for every PHP version

Application Hosting

Application Deployment

  • Envoyer - Zero down-time Deployer for PHP & Laravel projects
  • Rocketeer - Task runner and deployment package

Code Snippets

Articles, Tutorials, Blogs etc.

Videos

Conferences

Videos

Books

Starter Projects

Codebases for Reference

  • Cachet - Status page system for websites and APIs
  • Deployer - Application deployment system
  • GitScrum - Task management with Git and Scrum
  • Invoice Ninja - Invoicing, expenses, & time-tracking application
  • Koel - Personal music streaming server
  • Laravel.io - Source for the Laravel.io Community Portal
  • Attendize - Ticket selling and event management platform
  • Antvel - Ecommerce platform
  • Jigsaw - Static site generator
  • Canvas - Minimal Blogging Application For Developers
  • Vuedo - Vuedo is blog platform, built with Laravel and Vue.js
  • Screeenly - Create website screenshots through an API
  • Voten - A real-time social bookmarking for the 21st century
  • Monica - Personal relationship management system

Content Management Systems

Podcasts

Community

Local User Groups
Meetups

Jobs

Hosted Development Tools

Miscellaneous