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A curated list of bookmarks, packages, tutorials, videos and other cool resources from the Laravel ecosystem

Awesome Laravel

A curated list of awesome bookmarks, packages, tutorials, videos and other cool resources from the Laravel ecosystem.

Inspired by ziadoz/awesome-php

Table of Contents

• Essentials
• Code Snippets
• Packages
• Popular Packages
• Development Setup
• Application Hosting
• Application Deployment
• Articles, Tutorials, Blogs etc.
• Videos
• Conferences
• Books
• Starter Projects
• Codebases for Reference
• Newsletters
• Podcasts
• Community
• Jobs
• Hosted Development Tools
• Miscellaneous

Essentials

• Laravel
• Laravel Documentation
• Laravel API Reference
• Lumen
• Lumen Documentation
• Laracasts
• Laravel News

Code Snippets

• Laravel Cheat Sheet
• Laravel Tricks
• Laravel Recipies

Packages

• Packagist
• Laravel Collective
• Packalyst
• Cartalyst
• Spatie

Popular 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

• IDE Helper - Generates a helper file for IDE auto-completion
• Laravel 5 Extended Generators - Extends built-in file generators
• Laravel API/Scaffold/CRUD Generator - Generator for APIs, CRUD scaffolds etc.

Debugging & Profiling

• Clockwork - Integrates Clockwork Chrome extension for debugging and profiling apps
• Debug Bar - Integrates PHP Debug Bar with Laravel
• Laravel 5 Log Viewer - Log viewer
• LogViewer - Provides a log viewer for Laravel 5

Authentication & Authorisation

• Entrust - Role-based Permissions
• JWT Auth - JSON Web Token authentication for APIs
• Laravel Permission Associate users with roles and permissions
• Defender Roles & Permissions
• OAuth2 Server Laravel - OAuth 2.0 authorization server and resource server
• Laravel Roles - Roles And Permissions
• Sentinel - Framework agnostic authentication & authorization system
• Socialite - OAuth authentication with Facebook, Google, Twitter etc.
• Socialite Providers - 70+ social authentication providers for Socialite
• Google2FA - Google Two-Factor Authentication Module

Utilities

• Bootstrapper - Set of classes to create Bootstrap 3 markup
• Datatable - Server-side and client-side integration for jQuery Datatables plugin
• Eloquent Sluggable - Create slugs for Eloquent models
• HTML - Official HTML and Form Builders for Laravel
• Intervention Image - Image handling library for creating, editing and composing images
• Laravel Breadcrumbs - Create and manage breadcrumbs
• Laravel Datatable - jQuery DataTables API
• Laravel Dot Env Generator - Generate .env.gen file based on the project source code
• Laravel Excel - Import and export Excel and CSV files
• Laravel GeoIP - Determine the geographical location of website visitors based on their IP addresses
• Laravel Hashids - Generate unique, non-sequential ids using Hashids
• Laravel Markdown - CommonMark markdown parser
• Laravel MediaLibrary - Associate files with Eloquent models
• Laravel Messenger - User messaging system
• Laravel Responsecache - Speed up a Laravel app by caching the entire response
• Laravel Snappy - HTML to PDF generator using wkhtmltopdf
• Laravel Stapler - ORM-based file upload manager
• Laravel Tail - The missing tail command
• Laravel Stats Tracker - Gather information from requests to identify and store
• Listify - Add sorting/ordering capabilities to any Eloquent model
• noCAPTCHA - Helper for Google's new noCAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA)
• Revisionable - Create a revision history for Eloquent models
• SEOTools - Helpers for some common SEO techniques
• Setting - Persistent configuration settings that are stored in JSON files
• Teamwork - User to team associations with an invite system
• Validating - Trait for validating Eloquent models
• VAT Calculator - Handle all the hard stuff related to EU MOSS vat regulations
• Laravel Uuid - Laravel package to generate a UUID according to the RFC 4122 standard.

Working with Javascript

• Laroute - Generate Laravel route URLs from JavaScript
• PHP Vars to JavaScript Transformer - Pass server-side string/array/collection/whatever to JavaScript
• Javascript Validation - Use validation rules, messages, FormRequest and validators to validate forms in client side without need to write any Javascript code

Databases, ORMs, Migrations & Seeding

• Backup Manager - Backup and restore databases from S3, Dropbox, SFTP etc.
• Baum - Nested Sets pattern implementation
• ClosureTable - Closure table pattern implementation
• Eloquence - Extra features for Eloquent models
• iSeed - Generate a new seed file from an existing database table
• Laravel Backup - Backup your app
• Laravel Doctrine - Doctrine 2 ORM implementation
• Laravel MongoDB - Eloquent model and query builder with support for MongoDB
• Migrations Generator - Generate migrations from an existing database
• Sofa/Eloquence - Extensions for the Eloquent ORM
• Tenanti - Multi-tenant database schema manager

Search

• Algolia Search - Integrates the Algolia Search API to the Laravel Eloquent ORM
• Elasticquent - Elasticsearch for Eloquent models
• 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

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

Tasks, Commands and Scheduling

• Dispatcher - Scheduler for Artisan commands
• Elixir - Node(NPM) package to run Gulp tasks that watch files, run tests, minify CSS, concatenate scripts etc.
• Envoy - SSH Task Runner

Payments

• Cashier - Subscription billing with Stripe
• Omnipay for Laravel - Integrate the Omnipay PHP library

Optimization

• Intervention Image Cache - Caching extension for the Intervention Image Class
• Laravel HTMLMin - Blade/HTML/CSS/javascript minifier

Localization

• Language Files - Validation, Pagination and Reminders language lines in 37 languages
• Laravel Localization - Add i18n support via routes
• Laravel Translatable - Retrieve and store translatable Eloquent model instances
• Laravel Translator - Translate Eloquent models into multiple languages
• Laravel Date - A library to help you work with dates in multiple languages, based on Carbon.

Third-party Service Integration

• Laravel Algolia - Algolia API bridge
• Laravel Analytics - An opinionated Laravel 5 package to retrieve pageviews and other data from Google Analytics
• Laravel DigitalOcean - DigitalOceanV2 bridge
• Laravel Dropbox - Dropbox bridge
• Laravel Facebook - Facebook API bridge
• Laravel GitHub - PHP GitHub API bridge
• Laravel GitLab - GitLab API bridge
• Laravel Googletagmanager - Easily setup and send data to Google Tag Manager
• Laravel Instagram - Instagram API bridge
• Laravel Newsletter - Send newsletters with Mailchimp
• Laravel Parse - PHP Parse SDK bridge
• Laravel Pusher - Pusher API bridge
• Laravel Pushwoosh - Pushwoosh API bridge
• Laravel Vimeo - Vimeo API bridge

Development Setup

• Homestead - Official Vagrant box for Laravel
  • Getting Started with Laravel Homestead
  • Installation on OSx and Linux
  • Installation on Windows
• Install Laravel with Composer
• Windows
• Mac OSX or Linux

Application Hosting

• Forge - Provision optimized PHP servers on Linode, DigitalOcean etc.
  • Server Management with Forge (Laracasts)
  • Getting your first site up and running in Laravel Forge (Matt Stauffer)
  • ForgeRecipes
• FortRabbit (Video)
• PagodaBox (Documentation)
• Heroku (Tutorial)
• IBM BlueMix (Tutorial)

Application Deployment

• Envoyer - Zero down-time Deployer for PHP & Laravel projects
• Deployments with Envoyer (Laracasts)
• Rocketeer - Task runner and deployment package

Articles, Tutorials, Blogs etc.

• Tuts+
• SitePoint
• Christopher Pitt
• Culttt
• Scotch
• Fideloper
• Maxoffsky
• KodeInfo
• CodeForest
• Taylor Otwell
• Digital Ocean
• RTFM
• Matt Stauffer
• Creative Punch
• Ryan Tablada
• Mohammad Gufran
• Adam Engebretson
• CodeHeaps
• Laravel India
• Sheikh Heera
• Vegi Bit
• WSnippets
• Ed Zynda
• Kirk Bushell
• Andrews Ang
• DeveloPHP
• Jason Lewis
• Eric Barnes
• Jens Segers
• Neon Tsunami
• Amitav Roy
• Into Laravel
• Stidges
• Scott Wilcox
• Clivern
• Code Gains
• Stillat
• Easy Laravel Book Blog
• Bosnadev
• Vagner Luís (PT-BR)
• Vedovelli (PT-BR)
• CodeTutorial
• Ryan Chenkie
• Laravelista
• Laravel Tips
• Codingo Tuts
• Antonio Carlos Ribeiro
• Laravel Coding
• Styde (ES)
• Laravel Daily
• Freek Van der Herten
• Alfred Nutile
• Tutsnare
• ForLaravel
• Good Heads

Videos

• Laracasts
• Coursecode (YouTube)
• Tuts+
• Udemy
• Treehouse
• Duilio Palacios
• DevDojo
• Amitav Roy
• Lynda
• Pluralsight

Conferences

• Laracon US
• Laracon EU
• ArtisanConf

Videos

• Laracon EU 2015
• Laracon EU 2014
• Laracon US 2014
• Laracon EU 2013
• Laracon US 2013

Books

• Laravel Starter by Shawn McCool
• Laravel: Code Happy by Dayle Rees
• Laravel: Code Bright by Dayle Rees
• Laravel: From Apprentice To Artisan by Taylor Otwell
• Laravel 4 Cookbook by Christopher Pitt and Taylor Otwell
• Laravel Testing Decoded by Jeffrey Way
• Implementing Laravel by Chris Fidao
• Getting Stuff Done with Laravel 4 by Chuck Heintzelman
• Laravel Application Development Blueprints by Arda Kılıçdağı and Halil İbrahim Yılmaz
• Build APIs You Won't Hate by Phil Sturgeon
• Integrating Front end Components with Web Applications by Maksim Surguy
• Laravel Design Patterns and Best Practices by Arda Kılıçdağı and Halil İbrahim Yılmaz
• Step by Step Real World Application with Laravel 4 by Ibrahim Yusuf
• Learning Laravel 4 Application Development by Hardik Dangar
• Getting Started with Laravel 4 by Raphaël Saunier
• Laravel Application Development Cookbook by Terry Matula
• Building Web Applications Using Parse REST API by Mhd Zaher Ghaibeh
• Laravel - My First Framework by Maksim Surguy
• Easy Laravel 5 by W. Jason Gilmore
• Laravel 5 Essentials by Martin Bean
• Easy E-Commerce Using Laravel and Stripe by W. Jason Gilmore and Eric L. Barnes
• Laravel 5.1 Beauty by Chuck Heintzelman
• Design Patterns with PHP and Laravel by Kelt Dockins
• Laravel 5 Learn Easy by Sanjib Sinha
• Mastering Laravel by Christopher John Pecoraro
• How to Build Real-Time Laravel Apps with Pusher by Pusher
• Learning Laravel's Eloquent by Francesco Malatesta
• Laravel 5 Learn Easy by Sanjib Sinha
• Laravel and AngularJS by Daniel Schmitz and Daniel Pedrinha Georgii
• Laravel 5 UnFolded by Sanjib Sinha
• Laravel Collections Unraveled by Jeff Madsen
• Writing APIs With Lumen by Paul Redmond
• The Laravel Survival Guide by Tony Lea
• Laraboot: Laravel 5 For Beginners by Bill Keck

Starter Projects

• Laravel 5.1 Boilerplate
• Laravel 5 Angular Material Starter
• Acacha adminlte-laravel
• Laravel Spark
• Laravel Hackathon Starter

Codebases for Reference

• 92Five
• Bootstrap CMS
• Cachet
• Deployer
• Invoice Ninja
• Koel
• Laravel Tricks
• Laravel.IO
• October
• Paperwork
• PHPHub
• PyroCMS
• StyleCI
• TypiCMS
• Wardrobe
• Flarum
• Lavalite
• Laramap

Newsletters

• Laravel News (archive)
• Laravel Weekly

Podcasts

• The Laravel Podcast
• The Laravel News Podcast
• The Laracasts Snippet

Community

• Laravel.io Forum (Old Forum Archive)
• Laracasts Forum (Old Forum Archive)
• Larachat Slack (Signup)
• Gitter
• IRC Channel
• StackOverflow
• Twitter
• Google+
• Reddit
• Quora
• Facebook
• LinkedIn

Local User Groups

• Laravel Russia (VK group)
• Laravel France
• Laravel Myanmar
• Laravel Indonesia (Facebook group)
• Laravel Brasil (Facebook group)
• Laravel Turkey (Facebook group)
• Laravel Nigeria (Facebook group)
• Laravel China
• Laravel Taiwan (Facebook group)
• Laravel Spanish
• Laravel Korea (Facebook group)
• Laravel Morocco
• Laravel Japan (Facebook group)
• Laravel Tokyo (Facebook group)
• Laravel Malaysia
• [Laravel Algeria] (https://www.facebook.com/groups/LaravelAlgeria/)
• Laravel Greece (Facebook page)
• Laravel Middle East (Facebook page)

Meetups

• All Meetups
• London Meetup
• Buenos Aires, Argentina Meetup
• Morocco Meetup
• Athens-Greece Meetup
• Copenhagen Meetup

Jobs

• LaraJobs
• Laravel Gurus
• With Laravel

Hosted Development Tools

• Laravel Shift - Automated upgrade tool for Laravel projects
• Laravel Versions {x.y.z} - Monitor Laravel for updates
• Laragen - View generator
• Laravel Schema Designer - Create, export and share database schemas
• Laravel Database Designer - Graphical tool to create database schemas

Miscellaneous

• Larasites - Collection of websites and apps built with Laravel
• CodeCanyon - Paid scripts and plugins
• Laramap - Interactive map of Laravel developers

Contributing

Found an awesome package, blog, video etc.? Send me a pull request!

Guidelines

• Please make an individual pull request for each suggestion
• Use the following format for links: [Resource](URL)
• Want to suggest a package? Read the Contribution Guide
• New categories or improvements to the existing categorization are welcome

License

Awesome Laravel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.