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

Essentials

• Laravel (Documentation)
• Laravel API Reference
• Lumen (Documentation)
• Laracasts
• Laravel News (Archive)

Packages

• Packagist
• Laravel Collective
• Packalyst
• 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

• Scaffold Interface - A Smart CRUD Generator For Laravel
• 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.
• Laravel Tinx - Reload your Laravel Tinker session from inside Tinker
• Laravel API Documentation Generator - Automatically generate your API documentation
• Laravel Packager - A CLI tool for creating Laravel packages
• Workbench Export to Migrations - Workbench plugin for exporting Models to Laravel migrations
• Laravel Decomposer - List all installed packages, their dependencies, app & server details

Testing & Debugging

• Laravel TestTools - Chrome extension to generate Laravel integration tests while using your app
• Laravel Test Factory Generator - Generate Laravel test factories from your existing models
• 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
• LERN - Record exceptions into a database and will send you a notification
• Mail Preview - Preview sent mail in a web browser or mail client
• Laravel Tracy - A Laravel Package to integrate Nette Tracy Debugger
• Laravel API Tester - Postman-like tool with Laravel routes
• Laravel Tail - The missing tail command

Authentication & Authorization

• Bouncer - Roles & Permissions
• Laratrust - Roles, Permissions and teams
• 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
• Socialite - OAuth authentication with Facebook, Google, Twitter etc.
• Socialite Providers 2.0 - 100+ social authentication providers for Socialite with Lumen support
• Google2FA - Google Two-Factor Authentication Module
• Laravel User Verification - Handle the user verification flow and validate email
• Adldap2 Laravel - LDAP authentication and Active Directory management
• Doorman - Limit access to your Laravel applications by using invite codes

Utilities

• Artisan View - Manage the views in Laravel projects via artisan
• Bootstrapper - Set of classes to create Bootstrap 3 markup
• Captcha - An anti-bot image captcha system
• Charts - Multi-library chart package to create interactive charts.
• Datatable - Server-side and client-side integration for jQuery Datatables plugin
• Eloquent Filter - Filter models and their Rrelationships
• Eloquent Sluggable - Create slugs for Eloquent models
• Eloquent Sortable - Sortable behaviour for Eloquent models
• HTML - HTML and Form Builders for Laravel
• Multi-tenant - Flexible multi tenancy with secure separation of routes, assets and databases
• Laravel Form Builder - Form builder inspired by Symfony's form builder
• Laravel Activitylog - Log activity inside your Laravel app
• Laravel Auditing - Audit for Eloquent models
• Laravel Breadcrumbs - Create and manage breadcrumbs
• Laravel Collection Macros - A set of handy collection macros
• Laravel Cookie Consent - Make your Laravel app comply with the crazy EU cookie law
• Laravel Datatables - jQuery DataTables API
• Laravel GeoIP - Determine the location of website visitors based on their IP addresses
• Laravel Hashids - Generate unique, non-sequential ids using Hashids
• Laravel Impersonate - A package to authenticate as one of your users
• Laravel Markdown - CommonMark markdown parser
• Laravel Menu - Html menu generator for Laravel
• Laravel Talk - Realtime User messaging system
• Laravel Messenger - User messaging system
• Laravel Moderation - Approve or reject resources like posts, comments, users, etc.
• Laravel Paginateroute - Use Laravel's paginator without the query string
• Laravel URL Signer - Create and validate signed URLs with a limited lifetime
• Laravel Tags - Add tags and taggable behaviour
• 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)
• Purifier - HTML filter
• Revisionable - Create a revision history for Eloquent models
• SEOTools - Helpers for some common SEO techniques
• Laravel Setting - Persistent configuration settings that are stored in JSON files
• Friendship - Friendship management system
• 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 - Generate a UUID according to the RFC 4122 standard
• Laravel Installer - Allow users to install your application just by following the setup wizard, like WordPress
• Laravel Modules - Easy module management
• Laravel Phone - Phone number validator and formatter
• Laravel Ban - Simplify blocking and banning Eloquent models
• Laravel Proxy - Handling sessions when behind load balancers or other intermediaries.
• Laravel Video Chat - Video Chat using Socket.IO and WebRTC
• Widgets for Laravel - A powerful alternative to view composers.

Media & Document Management

• Intervention Image - Image handling library for creating, editing and composing images
• Laravel Glide - Easily convert images with Glide
• Laravel MediaLibrary - Associate files with Eloquent models
• Laravel Snappy - HTML to PDF generator using wkhtmltopdf
• Laravel DOMPDF - HTML to PDF generator using dompdf
• Laravel Stapler - ORM-based file upload manager
• Laravel Excel - Import and export Excel and CSV files

Integration 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
• Laravel Pjax - A Pjax middleware
• Laravel Blade Javascript - A Blade directive to export variables to JavaScript
• Ziggy - Use your Laravel named routes in JavaScript

Databases, ORMs, Migrations & Seeding

• Backup Manager - Backup and restore databases from S3, Dropbox, SFTP etc.
• Laravel Nestedset - 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 OCI8 - Oracle DB driver via OCI8
• 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
• Laravel Repository - Repositories to abstract the database layer

Search

• 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

• 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
• Rememberable - Query caching for Eloquent
• Widgetize - Page Partial caching
• Laravel Responsecache - Speed up app by caching the entire response

Monitoring

• Horizon - Monitor and configure queues with a simple web UI
• Laravel Failed Job Monitor - Get notified when a queued job fails
• Laravel Uptime Monitor - A powerful and easy to configure uptime and ssl monitor

Localization

• Language Files - Validation, Pagination and Reminders language lines in 37 languages
• Laravel Localization - Add i18n support via routes
• Laravel Translatable - Making Eloquent models translatable by storing translations as JSON
• 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
• Laravel Langman - Manage language files from Artisan Console
• Laravel Translation - Translation and localization management
• Linguist - i18n localization support for Laravel

Third-party Service Integration

• Laravel Analytics - Retrieve pageviews and other data from Google Analytics
• Laravel DigitalOcean - DigitalOceanV2 bridge
• Laravel GitHub - PHP GitHub API bridge
• Laravel Instagram - Instagram API bridge
• Laravel Newsletter - Send newsletters with Mailchimp
• Laravel Pusher - Pusher API bridge

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

• Forge (ForgeRecipes)
• FortRabbit
• PagodaBox (Documentation)
• Heroku (Documentation)
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk (Tutorial)
• Cloudways

Application Deployment

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

Code Snippets

• Laravel LTS Cheat Sheet (Chinese version)
• Laravel Tricks

Articles, Tutorials, Blogs etc.

• Tuts+
• SitePoint
• Medium
• Scotch
• Taylor Otwell
• Digital Ocean
• Matt Stauffer
• Mohamed Said
• Vegi Bit
• Andrews Ang
• Eric Barnes
• Neon Tsunami
• Stidges
• Dor.ky
• Stillat
• Easy Laravel Book Blog
• Laravel Tips
• Codingo Tuts
• Laraveles (ES)
• Styde (ES)
• Laravel Daily
• Freek Van der Herten
• Cloudways Laravel Blog
• Laravel Best Practices
• KernelDev

Videos

• Laracasts
• Codecourse (YouTube)
• Tuts+
• Servers for Hackers
• Test-Driven Laravel
• Duilio Palacios (ES)
• CodigoFacilito (ES)
• DevDojo
• Amitav Roy
• Laracademy
• Dev Marketer
• Udemy
• Lynda
• Pluralsight

Conferences

• Laracon US
• Laracon EU
• Laracon Online
• Laraconf Brasil
• Laracon Australia
• Laravel Live

Videos

• Laracon EU 2017
• Larcaon US 2017
• Laracon EU 2016
• Laracon US 2016
• 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: Code Smart 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
• Refactoring to Collections by Adam Wathan
• 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
• 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 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
• Laravel 5.4 For Beginners by Bill Keck
• Laravel Up & Running by Matt Stauffer
• Laravel Companion by Johnathon Koster
• Deploy Laravel on AWS with CloudFormation by Lionel Martin
• React Native and Laravel for Future Mobile Development by Ega Radiegtya
• Servers for Hackers by Chris Fidao
• Full-Stack Vue.js 2 and Laravel 5 by Anthony Gore

Starter Projects

• Spark
• LaraAdmin
• Grafite Builder
• Laravel Boilerplate
• Laravel Angular Material Starter
• AdminLTE Laravel
• Laravel Hackathon Starter
• Laravel API Starter Kit
• Backpack for Laravel
• SomelineStarter
• Laravel Admin
• Voyager
• Orchid
• Laravel REST API Boilerplate
• Hello API
• REST API With Lumen
• Laravel Zero - Console application
• Apiato

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

• OctoberCMS
• PyroCMS
• Lavalite
• TypiCMS
• Asgard CMS
• Microweber
• Coaster CMS
• Statamic
• Grafite CMS
• Borgert CMS
• PJ Blog
• Laralum

Podcasts

• The Laravel Podcast
• The Laravel News Podcast
• The Laracasts Snippet
• Hecho en Laravel (Spanish)

Community

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

Local User Groups

• Laravel Russia (VK group)
• Laravel France
• Laravel Indonesia (Facebook group)
• Laravel Brasil (Facebook group, Slack, Telegram, Google+, GitHub)
• Laravel Turkey (Facebook group)
• Laravel Nigeria (Facebook group)
• Laravel China
• Laravel Taiwan (Facebook group)
• Laravel Spanish
• Laravel Korea (Facebook group)
• Laravel Japan (Facebook group)
• Laravel Tokyo (Facebook group)
• Laravel Malaysia
• Laravel Algeria Facebook Group
• Laravel Greece (Facebook page)
• Laravel Middle East (Facebook page)
• Laravel Georgia
• Laravel Italy
• Laravel Viet Nam
• Laravel Slovenia
• Laravel Hungary

Meetups

• All Meetups
• London Meetup
• Buenos Aires, Argentina Meetup
• Morocco Meetup
• Athens-Greece Meetup
• Copenhagen Meetup
• Detroit Meetup
• Paris Meetup
• Melbourne, Australia Meetup
• Budapest Meetup

Jobs

• LaraJobs
• Laravel Gurus
• Laravel Certification

Hosted Development Tools

• Laravel Shift - Automated upgrade tool for Laravel projects
• Laravel Versions {x.y.z} - Monitor Laravel for updates
• Laravel Schema Designer - Create, export and share database schemas
• StyleCI - PHP Coding Style Service
• DependenCI - Continous integration tool for Composer

Miscellaneous

• CodeCanyon - Paid scripts and plugins

Contributing

Found an awesome package, blog, course or video? Send me a pull request!

Guidelines

• Please make an individual pull request for each suggestion
• Make sure the Travis tests pass on your pull request
• 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.