Laravel

The PHP Framework for Web Artisans

Resources

• Laracasts
• YouTube
• Blog

Articles

• Laravel News
• Set up a Laravel environment in VS Code with Dev Containers
• Using Laravel in VS Code (Start Quickly with a Dev Container! 📦)
• Debug your Laravel Sail Applications with xDebug
• How To Install and Configure Laravel with Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04 (LEMP)
• You don’t need Laravel Sail (opinion piece)
• How to Log All SQL Queries in Laravel

Components

• Blade
  • Templating engine that allows using full PHP
• Cashier
  • Subscription billing using Stripe or Paddle
• Dusk
  • Selenium-based browser automation (testing)
• Echo
  • Event broadcasting using WebSockets (for JavaScript clients)
• Eloquent

  • ORM for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite and SQL Server

• Homestead
  • Pre-packaged Vagrant VM for development
• Horizon

  • Dashboard and code-driven configuration for your Laravel powered Redis queues

• Octane
  • Increase performance and concurrency with application servers
• Pint

  • Opinionated PHP code style fixer

• Queues

  • Process jobs using Redis, Amazon SQS, or even MySQL and Postgres.

• Sanctum
  • Manage simple API keys/tokens
• Sail

  • A light-weight command-line interface for interacting with Laravel’s default Docker development environment

• Scout
  • Syncs ORM models/records with full-text search indexes in Algolia, Meilisearch, or MySQL/PostgreSQL
• Socialite
  • OAuth authentication via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
• Telescope
  • Debugging UI
• Valet
  • nginx-based development environment for macOS

Add-ons

• Nova

  • Administration panel for Laravel

• Spark
  • Recurring billing using Stripe, Paddle, PayPal (via Paddle)

Services

• Envoyer
  • Zero-downtime deployment for all PHP applications
• Forge

  • Provision and deploy unlimited PHP applications on DigitalOcean, Akamai, Linode, Vultr, Amazon, Hetzner and more.

• Vapor

  • A serverless deployment platform for Laravel, powered by AWS

  • Learn Laravel Vapor YouTube playlist

Starter kits

• Breeze

  • Lightweight starter kit scaffolding for new applications with Blade or Inertia.

• Jetstream
  • Starter kit using Tailwind and either Livewire or Inertia scaffolding

Third-party

Packages

• Packalyst

JavaScript

• Inertia

  • Create modern single-page React, Vue, and Svelte apps using classic server-side routing. Works with any backend — tuned for Laravel.

• Livewire

  • Livewire is a full-stack framework for Laravel that makes building dynamic interfaces simple, without leaving the comfort of Laravel.

Software based on Laravel

• Statamic CMS
• Laravel Zero

  • Micro-framework for console applications

FAQ

Cloud-config example for remote development using VS Code

• This example assumes Ubuntu 22.04.
• Adjust the usernames everywhere (search for “claus” and “cconrad”).

#cloud-config
package_update: true
package_upgrade: true
packages:
- ssh-import-id
- nginx
- php8.1-fpm
- php-mysql
- php-cli
- unzip
- telnet
- php-mbstring
- php-xml
- php-bcmath
- php-curl
- mysql-server
power_state:
  mode: reboot
runcmd:
- sed -i -e '/^\(#\|\)PasswordAuthentication/s/^.*$/PasswordAuthentication no/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
- sed -i -e '/^\(#\|\)X11Forwarding/s/^.*$/X11Forwarding no/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
- sed -i -e '/^\(#\|\)MaxAuthTries/s/^.*$/MaxAuthTries 2/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
- sed -i -e '/^\(#\|\)AuthorizedKeysFile/s/^.*$/AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh\/authorized_keys/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
- rm /var/www/html/*
- chown -R claus:claus /var/www/html
- curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer -o /root/composer-setup.php
- php /root/composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
system_info:
  apt_get_wrapper:
    enabled: False
users:
- name: claus
  groups: users, admin
  sudo: ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
  shell: /bin/bash
  ssh_import_id:
  - gh:cconrad
write_files:
- path: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
  content: |
    server {
      listen 80 default_server;
      root /var/www/html;
      index index.html index.htm index.php;
      location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
      }
      location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.1-fpm.sock;
      }
    }

Language files not loaded

• If Laravel does not seem to use translation files from the ./lang directory, check if you have a ./resources/lang directory, and delete it.
  • Source

Eloquent query logging

\Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB::connection()->enableQueryLog();
// Run some queries...
$queries = \Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB::getQueryLog();

Changes to “Job” classes do not take effect

• Make sure to restart the queue worker (e.g. Horizon) after each code change.

Laravel Tinker does not alias model automatically

• Run composer dump-autoload to regenerate the list of all known classes

Updating created_at manually

• The $model->unguard() method allows to temporarily remove protection from mass assignment on a model instance. Apparently this also allows updating the created_at property.

“A facade root has not been set.” in beforeAll of Pest test

• Laravel methods only work in beforeEach, not in beforeAll.