New Features in Laravel 5.3

Jun 16, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, echo, websockets

Introducing Laravel Echo: An In-Depth Walk-Through

Laravel Echo is a tool that makes it easy for you to bring the power of WebSockets to your Laravel applications. It simplifie...

Jun 27, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3

The new $loop variable in Laravel 5.3

Let's take a look at another new feature that's coming in Laravel 5.3. What are Blade directives? Laravel's Blade templatin...

Jun 29, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, eloquent

Customizing additional parameters in FirstOrCreate in Laravel 5.3

More Laravel 5.3 goodies! This time, it's an update to the Eloquent firstOrCreate method. If you've never used it before, yo...

Jul 6, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3

The new cache() global helper in Laravel 5.3

Time for another new feature in Laravel 5.3! Shortcut global helpers in Laravel As I was writing my book I noticed a patter...

Jul 8, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3

Advanced operations with Collection::where in Laravel 5.3

If you want to filter a Laravel collection to only those records which meet particular criteria, you're most likely going to ...

Jul 8, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, eloquent

New JSON-column where() and update() syntax in Laravel 5.3

While Laravel has had the ability to cast your data to and from JSON since version 5.0, it was previously just a convenience&...

Jul 25, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3

Image dimension validation rules in Laravel 5.3

In Laravel 5.3, we have a new validation option: image dimensions for image uploads. The validation rule is called dimensions...

Jul 26, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3

Customizing pagination templates in Laravel 5.3

Laravel's pagination library is brilliant, because pagination is a common task that is a surprising amount of work to impleme...

Jul 27, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, routing

Routing changes in Laravel 5.3

The last few versions of Laravel have showed the way routing works shifting around a bit. This is usually a sign that we're f...

Jul 27, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, laravel scout, laravel passport, mailable

5.3 feature announcement notes from Laracon

Once the videos are released I'll be able to update this post with more info, since I was on an audio-only stream for the maj...

Jul 29, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, laravel scout

Introducing Laravel Scout

Search tools ElasticSearch and Algolia have gained a lot of popularity in the Laravel community in the last few years as powe...

Jul 30, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, laravel passport, oauth

Introducing Laravel Passport

API authentication can be tricky. OAuth 2 is the reigning ruler of the various standards that you might consider, but it's co...

Aug 5, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, mail, laravel mailables

Introducing Mailables in Laravel 5.3

For the longest time, sending mail in Laravel has felt clumsy compared to the relatively light APIs of most other Laravel fea...

Aug 8, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3

Directory structure changes in Laravel 5.3

We've already covered the new routes directory and the changes that will make to the directory structure. But there's one oth...

Oct 19, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, laravel notifications, notifications

The new Notification system in Laravel 5.3

In a previous blog post I've covered Laravel's new Mailable feature, which introduces some important changes to how we send m...

Dec 21, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, vuejs, vueify, authorization

Using Vue in Laravel 5.3, with the Vue bootstrap and sample component

In Laravel 5.3, it's easier than ever to write and use Vue components out of the box. This means 5.3 has a somewhat more opin...

Dec 21, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, queues

Update to queue workers in Laravel 5.3

Queues are one of those tools in Laravel that everyone knows is there, but very few people understand deeply. It's understand...

Jan 30, 2017 | laravel, laravel 5.3, artisan

Defining console commands via closure in Laravel 5.3

Before Laravel 5.3, defining an Artisan console command—something like php artisan sync:dates—required you to create a ne...

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