laravel-tools

A collection of plugins, packages, CMSes, etc, that can be used with Laravel that are useful

Screen Casts

• Laracasts: https://laracasts.com/

Other Lists

• Open source Laravel projects: https://github.com/goodnesskay/Laravel-Open-Source-Projects

Blogs:

• Matt Stauffer: https://mattstauffer.co/blog
• Adam Wathan: https://adamwathan.me
• Patrick Stephan: http://www.patrickstephan.me
• Asked.io: https://asked.io
• Freek Van der Herten: https://murze.be/
• Mohamed Said: http://themsaid.com
• Diving Laravel: https://divinglaravel.com/

Notable Blog Posts

• Top Ten Laravel Packages: https://tutsforweb.com/top-10-packages-for-extending-laravel/
• User Input Sanitation: https://asked.io/laravel-validaton--all-your-base-are-belong-to-us
• Don't use Illuminate\Support in framework agnostic packages: http://mattallan.org/2016/dont-use-illuminate-support/
• Getting started with PHP streams: http://mattallan.org/2015/getting-started-with-php-streams/
• Setting up UUIDs in Laravel 5+: https://medium.com/@steveazz/setting-up-uuids-in-laravel-5-552412db2088
• Acceptance Testing Laravel and Vue.js: https://dotdev.co/acceptance-testing-a-laravel-and-vue-js-application-4160b8e96156
• Testing Controllers: http://www.developer.com/services/testing-controllers-in-laravel-with-the-service-container.html
• Testing with Codeception: https://www.toptal.com/php/php-testing-with-codeception
• Using named routes in Javascript: https://ideas.hexbridge.com/how-to-use-laravel-routes-in-javascript-4d9c484a0d97
• Artisan Tinker: http://www.stillat.com/blog/2016/08/16/becoming-a-laravel-rock-star-with-artisan-tinker/
• Docker, Rancher, and Laravel: https://paypertrail.com/blog/tech/docker-rancher-and-laravel-easy-and-safe-scalability
• Testing Resources: https://gist.github.com/adamwathan/fc5cbe7c0f5629245944
• List of all Laravel Events: https://www.mettle.io/blog/post/complete-list-of-laravel-5-events/
• Service Provider Examples: https://barryvanveen.nl/blog/34-laravel-service-provider-examples
• Demystifying Laravel 5 Custom Auth: http://snipe.net/2016/11/demystifying-custom-auth-in-laravel-5/
• Sharing Sessions Across Domains: https://medium.com/@alberto1el/share-laravel-5-3-session-across-domains-for-the-same-application-232312b03177#.kvq7jhbln
• Laravel View Components: https://laravel-news.com/introducing-view-components-on-laravel-an-alternative-to-view-composers

Quick Tips

• Checking the current route: http://laraveldaily.com/how-to-check-current-url-or-route/
• Conditional Query Builder Instructions: http://themsaid.com/laravel-query-conditions-20160425/
• Overwriting View Composer Variables: https://medium.com/@gizburdt/overwriting-view-composer-variables-in-laravel-6cfd9a8bfd01#.4zs0kcmo7

Other Lists:

• Awesome Laravel: https://github.com/chiraggude/awesome-laravel

Packages

Users

• Email Verification: https://github.com/edvinaskrucas/laravel-user-email-verification
• Email Verification: https://github.com/beyondcode/laravel-confirm-email
• Team Associations and Invites: https://github.com/mpociot/teamwork
• Inviting: https://github.com/DraperStudio/Laravel-Inviteable
• Inviting: https://github.com/clarkeash/doorman
• Auth/roles/social/etc: https://github.com/rinvex/fort
• Roles and Permissions: http://laratrust.readthedocs.io/en/3.0/
• Bouncer ACL: https://github.com/JosephSilber/bouncer
• Impersonation: https://github.com/404labfr/laravel-impersonate
• Ban: https://github.com/cybercog/laravel-ban

Database/Models

• Binary UUIDs: https://github.com/spatie/laravel-binary-uuid
• Repositories: https://github.com/rinvex/repository
• Eloquence: https://github.com/kirkbushell/eloquence
• Sluggable: https://github.com/cviebrock/eloquent-sluggable
• Model Validation: https://github.com/dwightwatson/validating
• Database Revisions: https://github.com/jarektkaczyk/revisionable
• Database Revisions: https://github.com/VentureCraft/revisionable
• Adding "Likes": https://github.com/DraperStudio/Laravel-Likeable
• Adding "Friends": https://github.com/DraperStudio/Laravel-Friendable
• Adding "Friends": https://github.com/hootlex/laravel-friendships
• Automatic Hash IDs: https://github.com/DraperStudio/Eloquent-Hashid
• Hash IDs: https://github.com/vinkla/hashids
• UUIDs: https://github.com/webpatser/laravel-uuid
• Model Relationship Limits: https://github.com/DraperStudio/Laravel-Doorkeeper
• Categories: https://github.com/DraperStudio/Laravel-Categorizable
• Tags: https://github.com/DraperStudio/Laravel-Taggable
• Collections: https://github.com/DraperStudio/Laravel-Collectable
• Messages: https://github.com/DraperStudio/Laravel-Messageable
• Comments: https://github.com/DraperStudio/Laravel-Commentable
• Comments: https://github.com/RomainLanz/laravel-commentable
• Comments: https://laravelista.com/packages/comments
• Reporting: https://github.com/DraperStudio/Laravel-Reportable
• Addresses (Includes basic geolocation): https://github.com/DraperStudio/Laravel-Addressable
• Questions & Answers (like laracasts forums or SO): https://github.com/DraperStudio/Laravel-Questionable
• Rewards: https://github.com/DraperStudio/Laravel-Rewardable
• Cascading SoftDeletes: https://github.com/michaeldyrynda/laravel-cascade-soft-deletes
• Media/File Attachments: https://github.com/plank/laravel-mediable
• Userstamps: https://github.com/WildSideUK/Laravel-Userstamps
• Metable: https://github.com/plank/laravel-metable

Images

• Glide: https://github.com/spatie/laravel-glide
• Intervention: https://github.com/Intervention/image

Filesystems

• Dropbox: https://github.com/GrahamCampbell/Laravel-Dropbox
• Flysystem (Not Laravel Specific): http://flysystem.thephpleague.com/
• Flysystem Bridge: https://github.com/GrahamCampbell/Laravel-Flysystem

File Management

• File to Model Association: https://github.com/spatie/laravel-medialibrary

Views/Presentation

• Markdown Parsing: https://github.com/GrahamCampbell/Laravel-Markdown
• Theme/Asset Management: https://github.com/Shipu/themevel

Debugging

• Testing Dashboard: https://github.com/antonioribeiro/ci
• Log Viewer: https://github.com/rap2hpoutre/laravel-log-viewer
• Query Viewer: https://github.com/fitztrev/query-tracer
• DebugBar: https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-debugbar
• Clockwork: https://github.com/itsgoingd/clockwork
• Decomposer: https://github.com/lubusIN/laravel-decomposer
• Clockwork: https://underground.works/clockwork/
• Command line Error Handling: https://github.com/nunomaduro/collision

Application Bootstrapping

• Laravel Boost: https://laraboost.com/demo
• Laravel Code Generator: https://github.com/CrestApps/laravel-code-generator
• Laravel 5 Boilerplate: https://github.com/rappasoft/laravel-5-boilerplate/wiki
• Admin Architect: http://adminarchitect.com/
• Spark: https://spark.laravel.com/
• EasyAdmin: https://github.com/laravelish/EasyAdmin
• Quick Admin: https://github.com/LaravelDaily/quickadmin
• Hackathon Starter: https://github.com/unicodeveloper/laravel-hackathon-starter
• Laravel Generator: http://labs.infyom.com/laravelgenerator/
• Laracogs: https://laracogs.com/
• Laravel Backpack: https://laravel-backpack.readme.io/docs
• Voyager: https://laravelvoyager.com/
• System Inc. Admin: https://github.com/systeminc/laravel-admin
• Orchid: https://orchid.software/
• AdminPanel: https://github.com/viralsolani/laravel-adminpanel

Social Networks

• Sharing: https://github.com/DraperStudio/Laravel-Social-Share

APIs

• API Helper: https://github.com/dingo/api
• Fractal: http://fractal.thephpleague.com/
• Laravel-Fractal: https://github.com/spatie/laravel-fractal
• Repsonder (Fractal wrapper): https://github.com/flugger/laravel-responder
• Webhook Protection: https://github.com/clarkeash/shield
• API Query Builder: https://github.com/selahattinunlu/laravel-api-query-builder

User Input

• Data Sanitation: https://github.com/daylerees/sanitizer
• HTML Sanitation: https://github.com/mewebstudio/Purifier
• Location Validation and Extraction: https://github.com/gocanto/places-validation
• Phone Number Validation: https://github.com/Propaganistas/Laravel-Phone

Localization

• Middleware: https://github.com/BenConstable/laravel-localize-middleware
• Artisan Language File Manager: https://github.com/themsaid/laravel-langman

Multi-Tenancy

• Multi-tenancy: https://github.com/hyn/multi-tenant
• Laravel Tenancy: https://laravel-tenancy.com/documentation

Websockets

• https://github.com/Askedio/laravel-ratchet
• https://github.com/tlaverdure/laravel-echo-server/

Testing

• Orchestral: https://github.com/orchestral/testbench
• Mailthief: https://github.com/tightenco/mailthief
• Parallel Unit Tests: https://github.com/brianium/paratest
• Factory Stories (advanced model factories): https://github.com/jeffochoa/factory-stories
• Visual Regression Testing: https://github.com/beyondcode/laravel-visual-diff

Optimization

• Full Page Caching: https://github.com/JosephSilber/page-cache
• Minification: https://github.com/GrahamCampbell/Laravel-HTMLMin
• CDN: https://github.com/Vinelab/cdn
• HTTP2 Server Push: https://github.com/JacobBennett/laravel-HTTP2ServerPush

Terminal

• Prevent Command Overlap: https://github.com/dmitry-ivanov/laravel-console-mutex
• Outputting to command line: https://statamic.com/blog/partyline
• Terminal Apps: https://github.com/laravel-zero/laravel-zero
• Better Artisan Menus: https://github.com/nunomaduro/laravel-console-menu

Miscellaneous

• Sitemap Generator: https://github.com/RoumenDamianoff/laravel-sitemap
• Seed Generator: https://github.com/orangehill/iseed
• File & DB Backup: https://docs.spatie.be/laravel-backup/
• Key-Value Store: https://github.com/spatie/valuestore
• Server Monitoring: https://github.com/ericmakesstuff/laravel-server-monitor
• Project Installer: https://github.com/RachidLaasri/LaravelInstaller
• SEO Tools: https://github.com/artesaos/seotools
• URL Signing: https://github.com/spatie/laravel-url-signer
• User Tracking/Analytics: https://github.com/antonioribeiro/tracker
• Collection Macros: https://murze.be/2016/08/handy-collection-macros/
• Country Data: https://github.com/rinvex/country
• Simple Regex: https://simple-regex.com/
• Chat Bot: https://github.com/mpociot/botman
• Alerts: https://github.com/vinkla/laravel-alert
• In-App Messaging: https://github.com/akiyamaSM/messager
• Database Snapshots: https://murze.be/2017/03/laravel-package-quickly-dump-load-database/
• Laravel Modules: https://github.com/caffeinated/modules/wiki
• Value Stores: https://github.com/spatie/valuestore
• Contries, etc: https://github.com/antonioribeiro/countries
• String Manipulation: https://github.com/PHLAK/Twine

Billing

• Chip: https://chipbilling.com/

3rd Party APIs and SDKs

• Twilio: https://github.com/aloha/laravel-twilio
• Slack: https://docs.spatie.be/laravel-slack-slash-command/v1/introduction
• Vimeo: https://github.com/vinkla/vimeo
• Pushwoosh: https://github.com/hoymultimedia/Laravel-Pushwoosh
• Pusher: https://github.com/vinkla/pusher
• MailChimp: https://github.com/spatie/laravel-newsletter
• Facebook: https://github.com/vinkla/facebook
• Instagram: https://github.com/vinkla/instagram
• Google Tag Manager: https://github.com/spatie/laravel-googletagmanager
• Google Analytics: https://github.com/spatie/laravel-analytics
• AWS SDK: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php-laravel
• Digital Ocean: https://github.com/GrahamCampbell/Laravel-DigitalOcean
• Github: https://github.com/GrahamCampbell/Laravel-GitHub
• GitLab: https://github.com/vinkla/gitlab
• Algolia: https://github.com/vinkla/algolia
• Wikipedia: https://github.com/unicodeveloper/laravel-wikipedia
• Unofficial Forge API: https://github.com/mpociot/blacksmith
• Twitter Streaming: https://github.com/spatie/laravel-twitter-streaming-api

Not Laravel Specific but Cool Nonetheless

• 3D Box Packing: https://github.com/dvdoug/BoxPacker
• Documentation Generator: http://daux.io/
• URL Parser/Manipulator: https://github.com/jwage/purl
• Math: https://github.com/markrogoyski/math-php
• Chat Bot: https://github.com/mpociot/botman
• Country Data: https://github.com/rinvex/country

CMSes/CRMs

Database Driven

• Microweber: https://microweber.com/
• Twill: https://twill.io/
• Laralum: https://laralum.com/
• Decoy: https://github.com/BKWLD/decoy
• PyroCMS: https://pyrocms.com/
• OctoberCMS: https://octobercms.com/
• Quarx: https://github.com/YABhq/Quarx
• AsgardCms: https://asgardcms.com/
• TypiCMS: https://github.com/typicms/base
• Coaster CMS: https://www.coastercms.org/
• Flarepoint CRM: https://github.com/Bottelet/Flarepoint-crm
• Ribbbon Project Management System: http://ribbbon.com/
• Atlantis CMS: http://www.atlantis-cms.com/
• Photon CMS: https://photoncms.com/

As A Package

• Orchid Platform: https://github.com/TheOrchid/Platform

Static Sites

• Statamic: https://statamic.com/
• Jigsaw: https://github.com/tightenco/jigsaw
• Katana: http://themsaid.github.io/katana/

Blogging

• Wardrobe: http://wardrobecms.com/
• Blogify: http://www.blogify.io/
• Canvas: http://canvas.toddaustin.io/

Front End Tools

• Laroute: https://github.com/aaronlord/laroute
• Input formatting: https://github.com/nosir/cleave.js
• Javascript Highlighter: https://markjs.io/
• Binding Keyboard Shortcuts: https://craig.is/killing/mice
• JS implementation of collections: https://github.com/ecrmnn/collect.js
• API Testing: https://reqres.in/
• Driver (an element highlighting library): http://kamranahmed.info/driver

File Uploaders

• Uppy file uploader: https://uppy.io/
• Filepond: https://pqina.nl/filepond/

Charting

• Britecharts: http://eventbrite.github.io/britecharts/
• Chart Generation: https://github.com/ConsoleTVs/Charts

Animation

• Sequence.js: https://www.sequencejs.com/

WYSIWYG

• ProseMirror: http://prosemirror.net/
• Slate WYSIWYG Framework: http://slatejs.org/

Vue.js Tools

• Material design components for Vue.js: http://josephuspaye.github.io/keen-ui/
• iView UI: https://www.iviewui.com
• Multi-select component: https://vue-multiselect.js.org/
• Vue Smart Table: https://github.com/gurghet/vue-smart-table/
• Demoing Vue Components: https://github.com/vue-play/vue-play-cli
• Loading Vue Files With ES5: https://github.com/FranckFreiburger/http-vue-loader
• Particle Backgrounds: https://github.com/creotip/vue-particles
• Uploader: https://github.com/websanova/vue-upload
• Magical Layouts: https://github.com/David-Desmaisons/Vue.Isotope
• Portal: https://linusborg.github.io/portal-vue/#/
• Style Guide: https://github.com/vue-styleguidist/vue-styleguidist
• Date Picker: http://vcalendar.netlify.com/
• Weex - Cross platform native mobile development in Vue: https://weex.apache.org/
• Vuido - Cross platform native desktop development in Vue: https://github.com/mimecorg/vuido
• Laravel Enso datatable: https://github.com/laravel-enso/vuedatatable
• Modals: https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue-js-modal
• Save State: https://github.com/spatie/vue-save-state
• Vue Router User Roles: https://github.com/anthonygore/vue-router-user-roles
• Template Interpolation: https://alligator.io/vuejs/v-runtime-template/
• Reusable Transitions: https://github.com/BinarCode/vue2-transitions

Static Site Generators

• Saber: https://github.com/egoist/saber.js
• Vuepress: http://vuepress.vuejs.org/

Frontend Testing

• Unit Testing: https://github.com/wrseward/vue-unit
• Jest: https://facebook.github.io/jest/
• End-to-end Testing: https://www.cypress.io/

Frameworks

• Vuetify (VueJS Material Design): https://vuetifyjs.com/
• Vuesax: https://lusaxweb.github.io/vuesax/

Miscellaneous

• Cheatsheet: http://learninglaravel.net/cheatsheet/#
• Froala Bootstrap design components: https://www.froala.com/design-blocks
• Loading Spinners: http://epic-spinners.epicmax.co/#/