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# Awesome Laravel Bookmarks

A curated list of awesome Laravel bookmarks, packages, tools, articles, tutorials and other related resources. Inspired by Frontend Dev Bookmarks.

Complementing this list, you may also want to check out Awesome PHP: a curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things.

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## Official Resources

- laravel/laravel: The default project structure to start developing with Laravel framework. The project itself does not contain the framework’s code.
- laravel/framework: The project that contains Laravel frameworks’s code. Use this project for forking, submit pull requests, etc.
- Laravel.io: The official Laravel Framework forum.

## Articles & Tutorials

- Articles/tutorials on specific subject
  - Exploring Laravel’s IoC container by Philip Brown.
  - Testing Laravel Controllers by Jeffrey Way.
  - Best places to put custom helpers on StackOverflow.
  - Laravel + Grunt + Bower + Bootstrap by Elena Kolevska.
  - Laravel + HHVM + Nginx by Fideloper.
  - Using Repository Pattern: to decouple the hard dependencies of models from the controllers.
  - Autoloading
    - Laravel PSR-0 auto-loading
    - Re-organising Laravel applications with PSR-4
- Series of articles/tutorials
  - Code Bright by Dayle Rees.
  - Cribb @ culttt.com
  - Laravel 4 Tutorials on Medium.com
- Frequently asked questions
  - Laravel requires the Mcrypt PHP extension.
  - Retrieve recently executed DB queries.
  - php artisan dump-autoload vs. composer dump-autoload
- Laravel on shared hosting
  - Laravel 4 on a shared host by Dries Vints.
  - Install Laravel 4 without Composer.
  - Install to a web host without publicly exposing /app/ folder?
- Integration with Paas/Saas
  - (coming soon)

## Popular/Notable Packages

- Authentication & Authorization
  - Laravel’s built-in authentication.
  - lucadegasperi/oauth2-server-laravel: OAuth 2.0 server package for Laravel. Uses thephpleague/oauth2-server.
  - artdarek/oauth-4-laravel: An OAuth client wrapper for Laravel. Uses Lusitanian/PHPoAuthLib.
  - zizaco/confide: An authentication solution for Laravel 4. Includes account confirmation, login throttling, etc.
  - zizaco/entrust: Role-based Permissions for Laravel 4.
- Developer’s tools
  - barryvdh/laravel-debugbar: Laravel 4 Debugbar (Integrates PHP Debug Bar).
  - way/generators: Easily generate model, view, controller, migrations, etc. via `php artisan` commands.
  - aws/aws-sdk-php-laravel: A simple Laravel 4 service provider for including the AWS SDK for PHP.
  - anahkiasen/former: A powerful form builder for Laravel and other frameworks.
- Building an API
  - dingo/api: A RESTful API package for the Laravel framework. Supports API versioning, data transformers, error handling, rate limiting, etc.
  - barryvdh/laravel-cors: Adds CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) headers support in your Laravel application.
- Database
  - laravelbook/ardent: Self-validating smart models for Laravel 4’s Eloquent O/RM.
  - cviebrock/eloquent-sluggable: Easy creation of slugs for your Eloquent models in Laravel 4.
- Testing
  - way/laravel-test-helpers: A set of helpers for easier testing in Laravel (no longer maintained).
- Other notable packages
  - mewebstudio/Purifier: HTMLPurifier for Laravel 4.
  - intervention/image: Image handling and manipulation library. Supports Laravel 4 out of the box.
  - greggilbert/recaptcha: reCAPTCHA Validator for Laravel 4.
  - frozennode/administrator: An administrative interface builder for Laravel.
  - thujohn/pdf-l4: A simple Dompdf package for Laravel 4.
  - yajra/laravel-datatables: Server-side handling fof data for DataTables jQuery Plugin
  - antonioribeiro/firewall: Blacklist/whitelist access to your site by IP address, IP range, or country.
  - Maatwebsite/Laravel-Excel: Import/export of Excel and CSV files.
  - Indatus/dispatcher: Artisan command scheduling so you don’t need to touch crontab on deployments.

## Tools

- Sublime Text’s Laravel Blade Highlighter: Laravel Blade syntax highlighter support for Sublime Text..
- Laravel Cheat Sheet.

## Community

- Laravel.io: The official Laravel Framework forum.
- Laracasts Forum: A community of Laravel developers at Laracasts.com. Sign up does not require paid subscription at Laracasts.com.

## Books

- Laravel: From Apprentice To Artisan: a book by the creator of Laravel himself!
- Laravel 4 Cookbook by Christopher Pitt and Taylor Otwell.
- Code Bright: by Dayle Rees.
- Laravel Testing Decoded by Jeffrey Way.

## Other Awesome Laravel Resources

- Laracasts: Paid video tutorials site not limited to, but generally based on Laravel.
- Packalyst: A directory of Packages for your Laravel projects.
- Built with laravel: A collection of sites build with Laravel.
- Larajobs: Will code Laravel for food.
- Pongo CMS: A content management system (CMS) built with Laravel.