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😎 📦 📄 A curated list of awesome packages, tutorials and other cool resources for Laravel

Awesome Laravel

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

Table of Contents

• Essentials
• Packages
• Popular Packages
• Development Setup
• Articles, Tutorials, Blogs, etc.
• Codebases for Reference
• Newsletters
• Hosted Development Tools
• Miscellaneous
• Topic Specific Tutorials

Essentials

• Laravel
• Laravel Documentation
• Laravel API Reference
• Lumen
• Lumen Documentation
• Laracasts
• Laravel News

Packages

• Packagist
• Laragist
• Laravel Collective
• Packalyst
• Cartalyst
• Spatie

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

• Scaffold Interface - A Smart CRUD Generator For Laravel
• 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.
• Laravel TestTools - Chrome extension to generate Laravel integration tests while using your app.
• Laravel API Documentation Generator - Automatically generate your API documentation from your existing Laravel routes.
• Laravel Packager - A CLI tool for creating Laravel packages

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
• LERN - LERN is a Laravel 5 package that will record exceptions into a database and will send you a notification
• Mail Preview - Preview sent mail in a web browser or mail client
• Laravel Tracy - A Laravel Package to integrate Nette Tracy Debugger
• Laravel API Tester - Postman-like tool with Laravel routes

Authentication & Authorisation

• Bouncer - Roles & Permissions
• 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 2.0 - 100+ social authentication providers for Socialite with Lumen support
• Google2FA - Google Two-Factor Authentication Module
• Laravel User Verification - Handle the user verification flow and validate email

Utilities

• Artisan View - Manage the views in Laravel projects via artisan.
• Bootstrapper - Set of classes to create Bootstrap 3 markup
• Captcha - Captcha for Laravel 5 - An anti-bot image captcha system.
• Datatable - Server-side and client-side integration for jQuery Datatables plugin
• Eloquent Sluggable - Create slugs for Eloquent models
• Eloquent Sortable - Sortable behaviour for Eloquent models
• HTML - Official HTML and Form Builders for Laravel
• Hyn/multi-tenant - Flexible multi tenancy with secure separation of a.o. routes, assets and databases
• Laravel 5 form builder - Form builder for Laravel 5 inspired by Symfony's form builder.
• Intervention Image - Image handling library for creating, editing and composing images
• Laravel Activitylog - Log activity inside your Laravel app
• Laravel Blade Javascript - A Blade directive to export variables to JavaScript
• Laravel Breadcrumbs - Create and manage breadcrumbs
• Laravel Collection Macros - A set of handy collection macros
• Laravel Cookie Consent - Make your Laravel app comply with the crazy EU cookie law
• Laravel Datatables - jQuery DataTables API for Laravel 4|5
• Laravel Dot Env Generator - Generate .env.gen file based on the project source code
• Laravel Excel - Import and export Excel and CSV files
• Laravel Failed Job Monitor - Get notified when a queued job fails
• Laravel GeoIP - Determine the geographical location of website visitors based on their IP addresses
• Laravel Glide - Easily convert images with Glide
• Laravel Hashids - Generate unique, non-sequential ids using Hashids
• Laravel Markdown - CommonMark markdown parser
• Laravel MediaLibrary - Associate files with Eloquent models
• Laravel Menu - Html menu generator for Laravel
• Laravel Messenger - User messaging system
• Laravel Moderation - A simple Moderation System for Laravel 5.* that allows you to Approve or Reject resources like posts, comments, users, etc.
• Laravel Paginateroute - Laravel router extension to easily use Laravel's paginator without the query string
• Laravel Pjax - A pjax middleware for Laravel 5
• 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 url signer - Create and validate signed URLs with a limited lifetime
• 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)
• Purifier - HTMLPurifier for Laravel 5 - HTML filter
• Revisionable - Create a revision history for Eloquent models
• SEOTools - Helpers for some common SEO techniques
• Laravel Setting - Persistent configuration settings that are stored in JSON files
• Friendship - Friendship management system - send, receive, accept, deny friend requests
• 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
• Laravel Uuid - Laravel package to generate a UUID according to the RFC 4122 standard
• Laravel Installer - Laravel package to allow users to install your application just by following the setup wizard, like WordPress
• Laravel Test Factory Generator - Generate Laravel test factories from your existing models
• Laravel-modules - Easy Module Management In Laravel
• Blade SVG - Easily use SVG icons in your Blade templates
• Google Places API Wrapper - Google Places API Wrapper for Laravel
• QuickSand - Easily schedule regular cleanup of old soft-deleted Eloquent data

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 OCI8 - Oracle DB driver for Laravel 4|5 via OCI8
• 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
• Plastic - Fluently mapping and searching Elasticsearch
• 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
• TNTSearch - A fully featured full text search engine written in PHP
• Scout MySQL Driver - A laravel scout mysql driver

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
• Laravel Fractal - Output complex, flexible, AJAX/RESTful data structures with Fractal in Laravel and Lumen

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
• Optimizing the performance of a Laravel application

Localization

• Language Files - Validation, Pagination and Reminders language lines in 37 languages
• Laravel Localization - Add i18n support via routes
• Laravel Translatable - Making Eloquent models translatable by storing translations as JSON.
• 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
• Laravel Langman - Manage language files from Artisan Console
• Laravel Translation - Allow live edit/caching of translation entries, and localization of urls and Eloquent Model attributes.
• Laravel Translations Loader - Store Laravel Localizations in Database

Development Setup

• Homestead - Official Vagrant box for Laravel
  • Getting Started with Laravel Homestead
  • Installation on macOS and Linux
  • Installation on Windows
• Valet - development environment for Mac minimalists
• LaraDock - Run Laravel on Docker (Like Homstead but for Docker instead of Vagrant).

Articles, Tutorials, Blogs etc.

• SitePoint
• Christopher Pitt
• Culttt
• Scotch
• Fideloper
• Maxoffsky
• KodeInfo
• Taylor Otwell
• Digital Ocean
• Matt Stauffer
• Creative Punch
• Ryan Tablada
• Mohammad Gufran
• Adam Engebretson
• CodeHeaps
• Laravel India
• Vegi Bit
• WSnippets
• Kirk Bushell
• Andrews Ang
• DeveloPHP
• Jason Lewis
• Eric Barnes
• Jens Segers
• Neon Tsunami
• Stidges
• Scott Wilcox
• Clivern
• Code Gains
• Stillat
• Easy Laravel Book Blog
• Bosnadev
• Vedovelli (PT-BR)
• CodeTutorial
• Ryan Chenkie
• Laravel Tips
• Codingo Tuts
• Antonio Carlos Ribeiro
• Laravel Coding
• Styde (ES)
• Laravel Daily
• Freek Van der Herten
• Tutsnare
• ForLaravel
• Good Heads
• Ryan Stelmat

Codebases for Reference

• 92Five - Project management application
• Cachet - Status page system for websites and APIs
• Deployer - Application deployment system
• Invoice Ninja - Invoicing, expenses, & time-tracking application
• Koel - Personal music streaming server
• Laravel Tricks - Source for the Laravel Tricks website
• Laravel.io - Source for the Laravel.io Community Portal
• Paperwork - Note-taking & archiving application
• PHPHub - Forum and source for the PHP & Laravel China community
• Flarum - Delightfully simple forum
• Laramap - Source of Laramap.com
• Attendize - Ticket selling and event management platform
• Katana - Static site/blog generator with markdown support
• Antvel - Ecommerce platform
• Jigsaw - Static site generator
• Canvas - Minimal Blogging Application For Developers.
• Vuedo - Vuedo is blog platform, built with Laravel and Vue.js
• Screeenly - Create website screenshots through an API

Newsletters

• Laravel News (archive)
• Laravel Weekly

Hosted Development Tools

• Laravel Shift - Automated upgrade tool for Laravel projects
• Laravel Versions {x.y.z} - Monitor Laravel for updates
• Laragen - View generator
• Laravel Schema Designer - Create, export and share database schemas
• Laravel Database Designer - Graphical tool to create database schemas
• Laravel Model Generator Online - Make a laravel model online with migration code also generated
• StyleCI - PHP Coding Style Service

Topic Specific Tutorials

• Creating Custom Blade Directives
• Adding Tagging System in Your App
• Adding Email Verification
• Automatically generate a sitemap in Laravel
• Masking IDs in URLs using hashids in Laravel
• Advanced Laravel Eloquent usage