Awesome Laravel

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

Inspired by ziadoz/awesome-php

Essentials

• Quickstart Guide
• Documentation (API)
• Laracasts (Developer + Laracasts = God Mode on)
• Code Bright web edition (beginner-level extention to the documentation)
• Tips & Tutorials (via Laravel News)
• Laravel Cheat Sheet

Laravel 5

ETA - January, 2015

• Laravel 5 Fundamentals - Laracasts
• Learn Laravel 5 From Scratch - Laracasts
• New Features in Laravel 5 - Laracasts and Matt Stauffer's blog

Code

• Laravel Tricks
• Laravel Recipies
• Laravel Snippets

Package Repositories

• Packagist
• Packalyst
• Cartalyst

Popular Packages

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

Developer Tools

• Generators - Defacto code generator for Laravel
• Elixr - Node(NPM) package to run Gulp tasks that watch files, run tests, minify CSS, concatenate scripts etc.
• Blacksmith - Flexible code generation tool
• IDE Helper - Generates a helper file for IDE auto-completion

Debugging

• Anbu - Profiler & debugger
• Debug Bar - Integrates PHP Debug Bar with Laravel
• Clockwork - Integrates Clockwork Chrome extension for debugging and profiling apps

Authentication & Authorisation

• Confide - Authentication solution to cut repetitive work involving user management
• Entrust - Role-based Permissions
• OAuth2 Server Laravel - Wrapper for OAuth 2.0 authorization server and resource server

Social Authentication

• Socialite - Social authentication wrapper for Facebook, Google, Twitter etc.
• OAuth 4 Laravel - OAuth client wrapper that supports Facebook, Twitter, Google etc.

Utilities

• Validating - Trait for validating Eloquent models on save
• Eloquent Sluggable - Creates slugs for Eloquent models
• Laravel Stapler - ORM-based file upload manager
• Laravel DOMPDF - HTML to PDF generator
• Laravel Markdown - Parsedown-Extra wrapper
• Recaptcha - reCaptcha validator
• Datatable - Server-side and client-side integration for jQuery Datatables plugin
• Laravel Breadcrumbs - Create and manage breadcrumbs
• Laravel Stats Tracker - Gather information from requests to identify and store
• Bootstrapper - Set of classes to create Bootstrap 3 markup
• Setting - Persistent configuration settings that are stored in JSON files
• Laravel Excel - Import and export Excel and CSV files
• Revisionable - Create a revision history for Eloquent models

Working with Javascript

• PHP Vars to JavaScript Transformer - Pass server-side string/array/collection/whatever to your JavaScript
• Laroute - Generate Laravel route URLs from JavaScript

Database, Migrations & Seeding

• Laravel MongoDB - Eloquent model and Query builder with support for MongoDB
• Laravel Flysystem - Abstraction to swap out a local file-system for a remote one (AWS S3, Dropbox etc.)
• Laravel Doctrine - Doctrine 2 ORM implementation
• Migrations Generator - Generate Migrations from an existing database
• iSeed - Generate a new seed file from existing database table
• Backup Manager - Backup to and restore database from S3, Dropbox, SFTP etc.
• Tenanti - Multi-tenant database schema manager

RESTful APIs

• API for Laravel - Build RESTful APIs that can be consumed externally and by your application
• Trucker - Map remote API resources (usually RESTful) as models in an ActiveResource style
• Laravel CORS - Add CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) headers support

Tasks, Commands and Deployment

• Envoy - SSH Task Runner
• Dispatcher - Scheduler for Artisan commands
• Rocketeer - Task runner and deployment package

Asset Management

• Intervention Image - Image handling and manipulation library for creating, editing and composing images
• Asset Pipeline - Concatenate and minify/compress JavaScript and CSS assets

Payments

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

Optimization

• Laravel HTML Minify - Minify the HTML output
• Intervention Image Cache - Caching extension for the Intervention Image Class

Localization

• Laravel Localization - Add i18n support via routes
• Laravel Translatable - Retrieve and store translatable Eloquent model instances
• Language Files - Validation, Pagination and Reminders language lines in 37 languages

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 - PHP PaaS optimized for Laravel on servers of your choice
  • Server Management With Forge
  • Getting your first site up and running in Laravel Forge
  • ForgeRecipes
• FortRabbit (Video)
• PagodaBox (Quickstart app)
• Heroku (Tutorial)
• IBM BlueMix (Tutorial)

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

Video Tutorials

• Laracasts
• PHP Academy
• Fallendown2005
• Userscape
• Treehouse
• Anthony Vipond
• Arjun Yojan
• Format C:
• Brandon Boswell
• Jason Chaney
• David Mosher
• Maarten (muukrls)
• Yavor Kirov
• Lynda
• Tuts+
• Novica Vukobratovic

Laracon

• Laracon US
• Laracon EU

Videos

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

Books

• Laravel: Code Bright
• Laravel: From Apprentice To Artisan
• Laravel 4 Cookbook
• Laravel Testing Decoded
• Implementing Laravel
• Getting Stuff Done with Laravel 4
• Laravel Application Development Blueprints
• Build APIs You Won't Hate
• Integrating Front end Components with Web Applications
• Laravel Design Patterns and Best Practices
• Step by Step Real World Application with Laravel 4
• Learning Laravel 4 Application Development
• Getting Started with Laravel 4
• Laravel Application Development Cookbook
• Building Web Applications Using Parse REST API
• Laravel - My First Framework

Codebases for Reference

• laravelio/laravel.io
• octobercms/october
• hillelcoren/invoice-ninja
• wardrobecms/wardrobe
• andrewelkins/laravel-4-bootstrap-starter-site
• grahamcampbell/bootstrap-cms
• codepadme/laravel-tricks
• sdebacker/typicms
• chintanbanugaria/92five
• summerblue/phphub
• cachethq/Cachet

Newsletters

• Laravel News (archive)
• Laravel Weekly

Community

• Laravel.io Forum (Old Forum Archive)
• Laravel.io Podcast
• IRC Channel
• Laracasts Forum (Old Forum Archive)
• 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 China
• Laravel Taiwan (Facebook group)

Meetups

• All Meetups
• London Meetup
• Buenos Aires, Argentina Meetup

Jobs

• LaraJobs
• Laravel Gurus
• With Laravel

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

• Built with Laravel - Gallery of websites and projects built with Laravel
• CodeCanyon

Contributing

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

Guidelines

• Please make an individual pull request for each suggestion
• Use the following format for resources: [Resource](URL)
• Use the following format for packages: [Package](URL) - Short description
• New categories or improvements to the existing categorisation are welcome