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
- Laravel 5
- Lumen
- Code Snippets
- Packages
- Popular Packages
- Development Setup
- Application Hosting
- Application Deployment
- Articles, Tutorials, Blogs etc.
- Video Tutorials
- Conferences
- Books
- Starter Projects
- Codebases for Reference
- Jobs
- Miscellaneous
Essentials
Laravel 5
Released on 4th February, 2015
- Laravel 5 Fundamentals - Laracasts
- New Features in Laravel 5 - Laracasts and Matt Stauffer's blog
- Release Notes - Laravel.com and Laravel News
- Upgrade Guide - Laravel.com and Matt Stauffer
- Learn Laravel 5 From Scratch - Laracasts
- Learn Laravel 5 in Spanish duilio.me
Lumen
Released on 14th April, 2015
- Introduction (Laracasts)
- Documentation
Code Snippets
Packages
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
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 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
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
Database, Migrations & Seeding
- Backup Manager - Backup and restore databases from S3, Dropbox, SFTP etc.
- Baum - Nested Sets pattern implementation
- ClosureTable - Closure table pattern implementation
- 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
- 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
- Elixr - 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
- 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
Video Tutorials
- Laracasts
- PHP Academy
- Fallendown2005
- Userscape
- Treehouse
- Anthony Vipond
- Design Code Blade
- Format C:
- Brandon Boswell
- Jason Chaney
- David Mosher
- Maarten (muukrls)
- Yavor Kirov
- Lynda
- Tuts+
- Novica Vukobratovic
- Duilio Palacios
- DevDojo
Conferences
Videos
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
Starter Projects
Codebases for Reference
- 92Five
- Bootstrap CMS
- Cachet
- Deployer
- Invoice Ninja
- Laravel Tricks
- Laravel.IO
- October
- Paperwork
- PHPHub
- PyroCMS
- StyleCI
- TypiCMS
- Wardrobe
- Flarum
- Lavalite
Newsletters
Community
- Laravel.io Forum (Old Forum Archive)
- Laracasts Forum (Old Forum Archive)
- Laravel Podcast
- Larachat Slack (Signup)
- Gitter
- IRC Channel
- StackOverflow
- Google+
- Quora
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)
Meetups
Jobs
Hosted Development Tools
- 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 projects built with Laravel
- Built with Laravel - Collection of open source projects 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
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