Awesome Laravel

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Packages

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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
Google2FA - Google Two-Factor Authentication Module

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 GeoIP - Determine the geographical location of website visitors based on their IP addresses
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

Databases, ORMs, Migrations & Seeding

Backup Manager - Backup and restore databases from S3, Dropbox, SFTP etc.
Baum - 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 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

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
Elixir - 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.

Video Tutorials

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
Laravel Collections Unraveled by Jeff Madsen

Starter Projects

Codebases for Reference

Newsletters

Community

Local User Groups

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 websites and apps built with Laravel
CodeCanyon - Paid scripts and plugins
Laramap - Interactive map of Laravel developers
Laravel Versions {x.y.z} - Monitor Laravel for updates

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

Awesome Laravel

Table of Contents

Essentials

Code Snippets

Packages

Popular Packages

Developer Tools

Debugging & Profiling

Authentication & Authorisation

Utilities

Working with Javascript

Databases, ORMs, Migrations & Seeding

Search

APIs

Tasks, Commands and Scheduling

Payments

Optimization

Localization

Third-party Service Integration

Development Setup

Application Hosting

Application Deployment

Articles, Tutorials, Blogs etc.

Video Tutorials

Conferences

Videos

Books

Starter Projects

Codebases for Reference

Newsletters

Community

Local User Groups

Meetups

Jobs

Hosted Development Tools

Miscellaneous

Contributing

Guidelines

License

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