Awesome Laravel

A curated list of delightful Laravel PHP framework packages and resources. Inspired by other awesome lists.

Packages

• Packagist - Official directory of Laravel (and other Composer-installable) packages.
• Packalyst - Directory of Laravel packages (semi-official).

Algorithms/Data Structures

• Baum - An implementation of the Nested Set pattern for Laravel 4's Eloquent ORM.
• HashIDs - Laravel wrapper for the HashIDs tool to generate short, unique hashes for any integer (e.g., surrogate key ID).

Authentication/Security

• Confide - An authentication solution for Laravel with features like account creation, login, logout, confirmation by e-mail, password reset, etc.
• OAuth-4-Laravel - Laravel package wrapper for PHPoAuthLib with support for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 providers.

Database/Eloquent/Models

• Datatable - Alternate Laravel 4 package wrapper for Datatables.
• Laravel DataTables - Laravel 4 server-side handler package for DataTables jQuery plug-in.
• Unique With Validator - Provides support for composite unique indexes, such as combination of first and last name.

Development Tools

• Blacksmith - Independent code-generation tool that works closely with Laravel to generate models, views, controllers, seeds, forms, and much more.
• Laravel Backup - Artisan extension that allows you to backup your application and database into a ZIP archive.
• Laravel Environment - Artisan extension to create and edit environment-specific configuration files in the shell.
• Laravel Environment Manager - Artisan command for managing multiple environments (.env) for a Laravel 5 application.
• Laravel IDE Helper - Adds auto-complete support for Laravel syntax to a variety of IDEs and text editors, including Aptana Studio, Eclipse, PHP Storm, and more.
• Laravel Log Viewer - Add on which allows you to view your Laravel 4.2/5.0 log file within the application itself by opening the logs (or other) route.
• Laravel-4-Generators - Package for speeding up development by generating classes, migrations, database seeds, and more.
• Laroute - Package of helper functions for "porting" Laravel routes over to JavaScript for use on front end of application.
• Laravel Debug Bar - Integrates Laravel with PHP Debug Bar to display debugging during application testing.
• Migrations Generator - Generate database migrations from existing database schema.
• PHP Console - Laravel package wrapper/service provider to handle PHP errors, dump variables, execute PHP code remotely, etc. in Google Chrome with PHP Console extension.
• SmartSeeder - SmartSeeder extends database seeding beyond development to allow to use different seed data depending on the environment.
• sqli - Laravel 4 Artisan SQL REPL (interactive tool), similar to tinker for SQL queries.

E-commerce

• Laravel PayPal Payment - Package for processing credit card or PayPal account payments using PayPal REST API.
• Paypal IPN - Package for a listener and processor for Paypal IPN responses.

GIS/Mapping

• GeocoderLaravel - Laravel package for the well-documented and supported GeocoderPHP library.
• LaraGeo - Laravel package wrapper for geoPlugin IP address-to-locality web service.
• Laravel IP Service - A Laravel package for ip2nation.com to get the user's country by IP address.

Helpers/General

• Blade on Steroids - Several enhancements to the standard Blade syntax, including sub-templating and much more.
• dd - Laravel 4 helper similar to new dd from Laravel 5.
• Eloquent Sluggable - Extends Eloquent to include a "sluggable" trait for easy generation of slugs.
• Graham Campbell's Packages - Variety of excellent packages for extending Laravel 4/5 functionality.
• iSeed - Inverse seed generator to create a database seed file using existing data in database table.
• Kint - A replacement for var_dump(), print_r(), and dd() for pretty printing debugging data.
• Larastrap - Laravel base site configuration based on Laravel 4.1, Bootstrap 3, jQuery, FontAwesome, and HTML5 Shiv.
• Laravel Administrator - An administrative interface builder for Laravel that allows you to visually manage your Eloquent models and their relations and create stand-alone settings pages for storing site data and performing site tasks.
• Laravel Annotations - Provides support for annotating Controller methods with the corresponding route, including route naming.
• Laravel Auto Presenter - Automatically decorates (applies formatting to) model objects bound to views during the view render process.
• Laravel Excel - An Eloquent way of importing and exporting Excel and CSV files for Laravel 4.* with the power of PHPOffice's PHPExcel.
• Laravel Formatter - Port of FuelPHP formatter library for formatting JSON, XML, YAML, and CSV data.
• Laravel Forum - A complete forum package designed for easy integration into any Laravel 4 application.
• Laravel Javascript Routes - Package to allow simple matching of Laravel routes to JavaScript/jQuery on client side.
• Laravel Medium Editor - Laravel package for using the Medium WYSIWYG JavaScript Editor with Laravel 4.x.
• Laravel Menu - Package that provides fluent, Laravel-esque method for building menus.
• Laravel SASS - Automatic SASS-to-CSS compiling for Laravel 4 (and any other framework too), config-free, in pure PHP.
• PHP Curl - A simple PHP wrapper class for cURL, including Laravel service provider and facade.
• Rapyd - A Laravel 4 package for building simple CRUD functions using data grids (tables) and forms.
• Syntara - Comprehensive user administration system for Laravel 4, including authentication, groups/permissions management, and more.
• Virtuoso - Extension to the built-in View Composers functionality that provides composability of composers themselves.

Third-Party API Support

• API for Laravel - Package to simplify creation of RESTful API for your Laravel application.
• AWS Service Provider for Laravel 4 - Official Laravel service provider to integrate AWS SDK for PHP with Laravel.
• CloudConvert Laravel API - A Laravel package wrapper for the CloudConvert API.
• Eloquent OAuth - Easy-to-use package for OAuth authentication in Laravel 4.
• Google API for Laravel - Laravel 4 wrapper for Google APIs, including support for OAuth/Log in via Google.
• PHP OAuth 2.0 Server for Laravel - OAuth 2.0 authorization server and resource server for the Laravel 4 framework.

REST/Web Services

• Brainsocket - Package for supporting real-time event-driven PHP apps using WebSockets.
• Dingo API - Toolkit for building RESTful API with Laravel including API versioning, rate limiting, error handling, and more.

Web Forms

• Bootforms - Package which simplifies and streamlines the process of specifying forms in Laravel with Bootstrap 3 markup.
• Bootstrap Form - Allows simple creation of Bootstrap 3-styled form groups, including horizontal styling.
• Former - Package to structure and format web forms in Laravel idiomatic style.
• Laravel Form Builder - Package for constructing HTML forms using PHP classes, including support for Laravel form-model binding.
• Laravel Form Validator - An extension of way/generators for setting up form validators.

WordPress Integration

• Corcel - PHP class library that allows you to query Wordpress database with Laravel Eloquent ORM syntax.
• Cutlass WordPress Starter Theme - Use Laravel Blade template syntax in your WordPress templates. Includes Bootstrap and Font Awesome by default.

Tutorials

Tutorials (General)

• 25 Laravel Tips and Tricks - Jeffrey Way gives a nice overview/introduction to Laravel 4 in the form of more than two dozen tips.
• Laravel 101 - Colin Viebrock's introduction to Laravel with associated code.
• Laravel 4 on Google AppEngine for PHP - Step-by-step instructions for setting up Laravel to run on Google App Engine.
• Laravel 4 on a shared host - Shared hosting can be difficult to set up for Laravel. Here are some good tips.
• Laravel on OpenShift - Instructions and customized package for using Laravel on OpenShift PaaS.
• Laravel Tutorials on Creative Punch - Series of unique Laravel tutorials, with special focus on available packages.
• Laravel Video Tutorials - Free, 10-part Laravel video tutorial with source code. (Videos mirrored here.)
• Learning Laravel - New book/tutorial site for beginners to the Laravel framework.
• Test Better, Deploy Faster with Laravel - Nice overview of Laravel concepts and how to use it for TDD.
• Tinkering with Tinker Like an Artisan - I think Tinker is one of the greatest features in all of Laravel!
• Using AJAX in Laravel - While Laravel doesn't have "native" AJAX support, it's routing supports AJAX nicely.
• Using Laravel Homestead as Your Development Environment - Excellent, detailed tutorial on setting up Vagrant and using it with Laravel Homestead for development.

Tutorial Series (Multi-part tutorials on Laravel basics)

• Philip Brown's Cribbb Tutorials - Comprehensive tutorials on building application with Laravel 4.
• Creating a Basic To Do Application in Laravel 5 - Excellent 4-part tutorial that covers all of the concepts for building Laravel application.
• Laravel 4 Tutorials - Drills down into the details that underlie the implementation of Laravel 4 to help you better understand the concepts and principles.

Tutorials on Specific (and Frequently Occurring) Topics

• Laravel user types and polymorphic relationships - An alternative to single-table inheritance (STI) using Laravel's polymorphic relationships.
• Single-Table Inheritance in Laravel 4 - Excellent tutorial on dealing with models that share common attributes, except for a small number of class- or type-specific attributes.
• Limiting 'Belongs To Many' database queries with Pivot table values - Also explains how to access additional attributes on pivot tables.
• Sharing Laravel Homestead Sites with ngrok - If you have a Laravel Homestead (or other Vagrant Laravel environment) that you want to share with others, these instructions will help you get it going.

Resources

• Laracasts - The de facto standard tutorials for Laravel developed by Jeffrey Way. (Some free Laracasts videos on YouTube here.)
• Laracon 2014 Videos - Directory of videos from 2014 Laracon in NYC.
• Laravel Schema Designer - Online tool for creating Laravel database schema and export the migration. You can share your schemas with others via the site.
• LaravelSnippets.com - A repository of useful code snippets for Laravel PHP framework.
• Laravel Tricks - Code snippets, best practices, and tips for Laravel development.

Applications Built with Laravel

• 92five - Open-source, self-hosting project management application.
• Asgard CMS - CMS built with Laravel with goals of modularity, multi-language support, and ease of installation.
• Bootsnipp - Element gallery, playground and code snippets for Bootstrap framework.
• BootstrapCMS - Comprehensive CMS built with Laravel using Sentry for user management/authentication.
• Burnmsg - Simple self-destructing, encrypted messaging application built on Laravel. Open-source, self-hosted version available on Github.
• Cachet - A single-site, alternative to https://statuspage.io written in PHP with the Laravel project, supporting both SQLite and MySQL databases.
• Codex - A simple file-based Markdown documentation platform built on top of Laravel.
• Colorsublime - Directory of Sublime Text themes along with a plugin to simplify installation of those themes.
• Geocod.io - Low-cost (2500 transactions per day free) geocoding web service built by Mathias Hansen.
• Gistlog - Markdown-based blogging tool that uses Github's Gist platform for storage (more here).
• GitGo - Git repository hosting site with beautiful UI (includes free plan).
• Invoice Ninja - Online small business invoicing platform with free plan up to 500 clients. Open-source, self-hosted version available on Github.
• Laravel Site - A custom CMS and event management platform built on Laravel 4.
• Lavalite - Multilingual CMS built on Laravel 4 and Bootstrap 3.
• Orchestra Platform - Laravel-based application boilerplate.
• Paperwork - Open-source note-taking/PIM alternative to Evernote and Microsoft OneNote built on Laravel, AngularJS and Bootstrap 3.
• Style CI - Free PHP coding style continuous integration service that checks and (optionally) fixes Github public repositories against PHP coding standards.
• Thermosis Framework - WordPress framework that embeds Laravel to build complex applications.
• vimrcfu - Share your best vimrc snippets. (Source for vimrcfu.com.)
• Wardrobe - A minimalist blogging platform and CMS supporting Markdown and simple theming.
• Xenon Support Center - A comprehensive, but minimal, open-source ticket- and conversation-management platform.

Books

• Easy Laravel 5: A Hands On Introduction Using a Real-World Project - W. Jason Gilmore's book on building applications with Laravel framework.
• Laravel Application Development Blueprints
• Laravel Application Development Cookbook - Terry Matula
• Leanpub Laravel Books - Directory of Leanpub books on Laravel. Some free!
• Learning Laravel 4 Application Development - Hardik Dangar

References

• 75 Laravel Tutorials, Packages, and Resources from 2014 - Nice summary of the key events and tutorials in the Laravel world for 2014, from the folks at Laravel News.
• Cheatsheetr - Maks Surguy's topical cheat sheets for Laravel and Bootstrap.
• Your One-Stop Guide to Laravel Artisan Commands
• Laravel Cheat Sheet
• Laravel Cheat Sheet as a Phone Gap Application - Nice Laravel reference wrapped as a PhoneGap/Cordova application for viewing on mobile devices.
• Laravel Errors - Good list of common Laravel errors and tips about typical causes.
• Another Laravel Cheat Sheet
• Yet Another Laravel Cheat Sheet (PDF)

Example Applications

• Anvil CMS - A basic CMS built on top of Laravel 4 with other components.
• Auto-Generating Gallery - Basic image gallery application with support for auto-generation of thumbnails, albums, and more.
• GH-analytics - Reference implementation application with Laravel backend and AngularJS front-end.
• Larapress - A work-in-progress CMS built on Laravel 4, which provides good example of building application with Laravel.
• Laravel Blog - A Laravel 4 package to add a simple blog to a site.
• Laravel Blog - A complete blog application, with admin features, implemented in Laravel 4.2.
• Laravel Bootstrap Starter Site - Laravel 5 application starter configuration with built-in Bootstrap 3 and DataTables support.
• Laravel Bootstrap - A Laravel 4.1 PHP 5.4 CMS using Bootstrap 3, built with SOLID principles.
• Laravel Community Service Application - Web application for signing up for community service opportunities.
• Laravel 4 CMS - Quick intro to Laravel using a custom CMS application.
• Laravel.io - The source code for the Laravel.IO website, including comprehensive tests.
• Library Management System - Simple library management system built on Laravel.
• Make It Snappy - Independent Laravel 4 implementation of the application built in the Tuts+ "Build a Practical Web Application with Laravel" tutorial.
• Paypal Processor - Sample Paypal-based ecommerce site implemented with Laravel.
• PHPHub - Complete forum application built with Laravel 4.2.
• Neon Tsunami Blog - Fully PHPUnit tested Laravel 4.2 app for reference.
• Sample REST API - Sample implementation of RESTful API in Laravel with complete PHPUnit tests.
• [todoProject] - Simple "To Do" tracking application build with Laravel 4 and Bootstrap.

Blogs

• 158ltd
• Advanced Laravel
• Adam Engebretson
• Ahesanali Suthar
• Alan Storm
• Alex Sears
• Alfred Nutile
• Amit Gaur
• Amitav Roy
• Andrea Sartori
• Andreas Lutro
• Barry vd. Heuvel
• Belar Design
• Benjamin Kohl
• Boris Strahija
• Bosnadev
• Chris Gmyr
• Chris Hayes
• Christoph Rumpel
• Christopher Pitt
• Clivern
• Code Gains
• CodeHeaps
• CodeRabbi (Yitzchok Willroth)
• Cogito, Ergo Sum (Shankar Manamalkav)
• Creative Punch
• Dev Metal
• developed.be
• DeveloPHP
• Diego Hernandes
• Dixit Patel
• dor.ky
• EasyLara
• El Coderino
• Elena Kolevska
• Eric Barnes
• Fideloper
• Flynsarmy
• Format C:
• Geek & Dummy
• Gliding Phenomena (Ravi Panchumarthy)
• Gufran.me
• Imron Rosindia
• IntoLaravel.com
• Ionut Bajescu
• Jack Wall
• Jacopo Beschi
• James Brooks
• Jason Lewis
• Jens Segers
• Kelt Dockins
• KodeInfo
• Kongnir
• Koomai
• KVCodes
• Laravel Coder
• Mack Hankins
• Maks Surguy
• Mario Basic
• Marc Mulzer
• Mark Van Eijk
• Matt Stauffer
• Matt's Notes
• Matthew Hailwood
• Matthew T. Brown
• Michael Brooks
• Muhammad Usman
• Murze.be
• Ollie Read
• Programming Are Hard (David Adams)
• Raffworks
• Recursive Iterator
• Richard Bagshaw
• Richard Hawthorn
• Ringaal Sandbox
• Ryan Chenkie
• Ryan Tablada
• Scotch.io
• Simple Developer
• Slashnode
• SOFTonSOFA
• Stephen Rees-Carter
• Stidges' Blog
• StillAt (Johnathon Koster)
• South LaSalle (Bob Bloom)
• Tanner Hearne
• Taylor Otwell
• Terry Matula
• The Reluctant Web Developer
• TNT Studio
• Tommy Ku
• Tutsnare
• Vegi Bit
• Web Design & Development Talk
• Weblint4u
• WSnippets
• Yottaram (Jonathan Stavis)
• zwacky

Forums and Groups

• Google+ Laravel Community
• Laravel LinkedIn Group
• Laravel Recipes
• Laravel Reddit
• Laravel.io Forums - The Official Laravel PHP Framework Community Portal
• Learn Laravel Reddit - Good forum for Laravel beginners (however, not very active).
• Quora Laravel Forum
• Twitter Laravel Resources

Conferences and Meetups

Laracon EU

Newsletters

• Laravel Weekly - Publication currently suspended, but lots of good information in back issues.
• Laravel News - Popular newsletter with updates from the Laravel community including excellent profiles of community members.
• paper.li Laravel Weekly - Weekly news and articles on Laravel.

Job Sites/Postings

• Laravel Gurus - The best place to find consultants and freelancers for your Laravel projects.
• LaraJobs - The best place to post your PHP, Laravel, or technical guru jobs.
• WithLaravel - Post Laravel project or position openings or add yourself as freelancer available for work.

Development Tools

• Laragen - Online tool for generating Laravel views for index, create, and edit, based on your model definition.
• Laragon - Open-source toolkit for setting up Laravel development environment on Windows.
• Laravel Debug Bar - Awesome tool that adds a JavaScript-based bar to bottom of page which shows details about routes, HTTP requests, variables, and much more.

Other

• My Pinboard Links for Laravel
• Another Awesome Laravel List :)
• Another Awesome Laravel List