Blog Series: New Features in Laravel 5.1

Series

This is a series of posts on New Features in Laravel 5.1.

  1. Apr 28, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1
    Taylor's put up a new Laracast video about using the new Broadcasting tool in Laravel 5.1, which is a simple contract that al...
  2. Jun 8, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1
    Laravel 5.1 introduces "Service Injection", the ability to "inject" an object into Blade templates. This means you can now re...
  3. Jun 9, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1
    If you remember my blog post about Filter-style middleware in Laravel 5.0, middleware got a big bump in its importance and pr...
  4. Jun 10, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1, artisan
    If you're not familiar with Artisan commands, they're command-line functions that you can run to interact with your Laravel a...
  5. Jun 11, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1, artisan, console
    Yesterday we talked about the new signature syntax for Artisan commands. Today, let's take a look at the options Artisan com...
  6. Jun 15, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1, testing, integration testing
    Whether or not you've written integration tests in Laravel before, you'll be pleased to hear that integration testing is more...
  7. Jun 16, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1, testing, integration testing
    When you're testing your code, you often want to create a fake entry for one or more of your models. You may have tried this ...
  8. Jun 19, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1, testing, integration testing
    Continuing in our series about testing and integration testing in Laravel 5.1, let's take a look at some new traits that are ...
  9. Jul 7, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1
    Whoops! I missed a feature from my Laravel 5.1 review! It's now super easy to exclude specific routes from your CSRF middlew...
  10. Jul 31, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1
    If you've ever run a SaaS (or put any web site with comments or signups on the Internet for any length of time), you've exper...
  11. Sep 9, 2015 | acl, laravel, laravel 5.1, authorization
    The authentication that Laravel provides out-of-the-box makes it simple to get user signup, login, logout, and password reset...

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