Awesome Laravel – Massive Collection of Resources

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

Inspired by awesome-php

Table of Contents

• Essentials
• Packages
• Popular Packages
• Development Setup
• Application Hosting
• Application Deployment
• Code Snippets
• Tutorials & Blogs
• Videos
• Conferences
• Books
• Starter Projects
• Codebases for Reference
• Content Management Systems
• Podcasts
• Community
• Jobs
• Hosted Development Tools
• Miscellaneous

Essentials

• Laravel (Documentation)
• Laravel API Reference
• Lumen (Documentation)
• Laracasts
• Laravel News (Archive)

Packages

• Packagist
• Laravel Collective
• Packalyst
• 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 Tinx – Reload your Laravel Tinker session from inside Tinker
• Laravel API Documentation Generator – Automatically generate your API documentation
• Laravel Packager – A CLI tool for creating Laravel packages
• Workbench Export to Migrations – Workbench plugin for exporting Models to Laravel migrations
• Laravel Decomposer – List all installed packages, their dependencies, app & server details
• LaRecipe – Write gorgeous documentations for your products using Markdown inside your Laravel app.
• Prequel – A clear and concise database management GUI tweaked for Laravel.

Testing & Debugging

• Laravel TestTools – Chrome extension to generate Laravel integration tests while using your app
• Laravel Test Factory Generator – Generate Laravel test factories from your existing models
• Clockwork – Integrates Clockwork Chrome extension for debugging and profiling apps
• Debug Bar – Integrates PHP Debug Bar with Laravel
• Ignition – A beautiful error page for Laravel apps
• Laravel 5 Log Viewer – Log viewer
• LogViewer – Provides a log viewer
• LERN – 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 Terminal – run artisan in a web browser
• Laravel API Tester – Postman-like tool with Laravel routes
• Laravel Tail – The missing tail command
• Laravel Telescope – Laravel Telescope is an elegant debug assistant for the Laravel framework

Authentication & Authorization

• Bouncer – Roles & Permissions
• Laratrust – Roles, Permissions and teams
• 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
• 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
• Adldap2 Laravel – LDAP authentication and Active Directory management
• Doorman – Limit access to your Laravel applications by using invite codes
• Laravel Heyman – Heyman continues where the above role-permission packages left off

Utilities

• Awes.io – boilerplate for CRM, SaaS, ERP based on Vue (Nuxt.js), TailwindCSS plus Laravel as a backend.
• Artisan View – Manage the views in Laravel projects via artisan
• Bootstrapper – Set of classes to create Bootstrap 3 markup
• Captcha – An anti-bot image captcha system
• Charts – Multi-library chart package to create interactive charts
• Lavacharts – Charts and Graphs for PHP Powered by the Google Chart API
• Eloquent Filter – Filter models and their Relationships
• Eloquent Sluggable – Create slugs for Eloquent models
• Eloquent Sortable – Sortable behaviour for Eloquent models
• HTML – HTML and Form Builders for Laravel
• Multi-tenant – Flexible multi tenancy with secure separation of routes, assets and databases
• Laravel Form Builder – Form builder inspired by Symfony’s form builder
• Laravel Activitylog – Log activity inside your Laravel app
• Laravel Auditing – Audit for Eloquent models
• 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
• Laravel GeoIP – Determine the location of website visitors based on their IP addresses
• Laravel Hashids – Generate unique, non-sequential ids using Hashids
• Laravel Impersonate – A package to authenticate as one of your users
• Laravel Mailbox – A package to handle incoming emails
• Laravel Markdown – CommonMark markdown parser
• Laravel Menu – Html menu generator for Laravel
• Laravel Talk – Realtime User messaging system
• Laravel Messenger – User messaging system
• Laravel Moderation – Approve or reject resources like posts, comments, users, etc.
• Laravel Tags – Add tags and taggable behaviour
• 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 – HTML filter
• Revisionable – Create a revision history for Eloquent models
• SEOTools – Helpers for some common SEO techniques
• Page Cache – Caches responses as static files on disk for lightning fast page loads
• Laravel Setting – Persistent configuration settings that are stored in JSON files
• Friendship – Friendship management system
• 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 – Generate a UUID according to the RFC 4122 standard
• Laravel Installer – Allow users to install your application just by following the setup wizard, like WordPress
• Laravel Modules – Easy module management
• Laravel Phone – Phone number validator and formatter
• Laravel Ban – Simplify blocking and banning Eloquent models
• Laravel Proxy – Handling sessions when behind load balancers or other intermediaries.
• Laravel Video Chat – Video Chat using Socket.IO and WebRTC
• Widgets for Laravel – A powerful alternative to view composers.
• Secure Headers – Add security related headers to HTTP response
• Laravel Nova – Nova is a beautifully designed administration panel for Laravel
• Laravel Love – It lets people express how they feel about the content. React on Eloquent models with Likes or Dislikes.
• stancl/tenancy – Automatic tenancy for your Laravel app. No code changes needed.

Media & Document Management

• Intervention Image – Image handling library for creating, editing and composing images
• Laravel ImageUp – Yet another image manipulation package, adds tons of extra functionality
• Laravel Glide – Easily convert images with Glide
• Laravel MediaLibrary – Associate files with Eloquent models
• Laravel Snappy – HTML to PDF generator using wkhtmltopdf
• Laravel DOMPDF – HTML to PDF generator using dompdf
• Laravel Stapler – ORM-based file upload manager
• Laravel Excel – Import and export Excel and CSV files
• Fast Excel – Fast XLSX, CSV and ODT import and export for Laravel
• Laravolt Avatar – Plug n play avatar, turn name, email, and any other string into beautiful avatar (or gravatar), effortless.
• Laravel FFmpeg – This package provides an integration with FFmpeg for Laravel 5.8.

Integration 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
• Laravel Pjax – A Pjax middleware
• Laravel Blade Javascript – A Blade directive to export variables to JavaScript
• Ziggy – Use your Laravel named routes in JavaScript
• LiveWire – A magical front-end framework for Laravel

Databases, ORMs, Migrations & Seeding

• Backup Manager – Backup and restore databases from S3, Dropbox, SFTP etc.
• Laravel Nestedset – 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 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
• Laravel Repository – Repositories to abstract the database layer
• Lada Cache – A Redis based, fully automated and scalable database cache layer
• Laravel MySQL Spatial extension – easily work with MySQL Spatial Data Types and MySQL Spatial Functions

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
• TNTSearch driver – Driver for Laravel Scout search package based on TNTSearch
• Laravel-Searchy – Fuzzy search, basic string matching, Levenshtein Distance

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
• Laravel GraphQL – Supports Relay, eloquent models, validation and GraphiQL
• Lighthouse – An up and coming GraphQL library for Laravel
• Laravel Responder – Build custom API responses with Fractal

Tasks, Commands and Scheduling

• Dispatcher – Scheduler for Artisan commands
• Elixir – Node (NPM) package to run Gulp tasks
• Mix – Fluent API for defining basic webpack build steps
• 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
• Rememberable – Query caching for Eloquent
• Widgetize – Page Partial caching
• Laravel Responsecache – Speed up app by caching the entire response

Monitoring

• Horizon – Monitor and configure queues with a simple web UI
• Laravel Failed Job Monitor – Get notified when a queued job fails
• Laravel Uptime Monitor – A powerful and easy to configure uptime and ssl monitor
• Larametrics – A self-hosted metrics and notifications platform for Laravel apps

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 – Translation and localization management
• Linguist – i18n localization support for Laravel

Third-party Service Integration

• Laravel Analytics – Retrieve pageviews and other data from Google Analytics
• Laravel DigitalOcean – DigitalOceanV2 bridge
• Laravel GitHub – PHP GitHub API bridge
• Laravel Instagram – Instagram API bridge
• Laravel Newsletter – Send newsletters with Mailchimp
• Laravel Pusher – Pusher API bridge

Development Setup

• Homestead – Official Vagrant box for Laravel
• Valet – Development environment for Mac users
• Valet Linux – Development environment for Linux users
• LaraDock – Run Laravel on Docker (Like Homestead but for Docker instead of Vagrant)
• LaraEdit Docker – Homestead environment in a single Docker container
• Laragon – Isolated development environment on Windows
• Stacker – The environment for local web development on Docker
• Devilbox – A dockerized and general-purpose LAMP/MEAN stack for every PHP version
• Vessel – Simple Docker development environments for Laravel
• Lando – A local development environment tool built on Docker

Application Hosting

• Vapor
• Forge (ForgeRecipes)
• FortRabbit
• Heroku (Documentation)
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk (Tutorial)
• Cloudways
• Ploi
• CodePier
• RunCloud

Application Deployment

• Deployer – A deployment tool with support for Laravel out of the box
• Envoyer – Zero down-time Deployer for PHP & Laravel projects
• Rocketeer – Task runner and deployment package

Code Snippets

• Laravel LTS Cheat Sheet (Chinese version)
• Laravel Tricks

Tutorials & Blogs

• Taylor Otwell
• Tuts+
• Medium
• Laravel Daily
• Scotch
• Digital Ocean
• Matt Stauffer
• Vegi Bit
• Neon Tsunami
• Dor.ky
• Stillat
• Easy Laravel Book Blog
• Laraveles (ES)
• Styde (ES)
• Cloudways Laravel Blog
• Laravel Best Practices
• Pusher Laravel Tutorials
• LaraShout

Videos

• Laracasts
• Codecourse (YouTube)
• Tuts+
• Servers for Hackers
• Test-Driven Laravel
• Duilio Palacios (ES)
• CodigoFacilito (ES)
• DevDojo
• Amitav Roy
• Laracademy
• Dev Marketer
• Udemy
• Lynda
• Pluralsight
• Bitfumes
• ConfidentLaravel

Conferences

• Laracon US
• Laracon EU
• Laracon Online
• Laraconf Brasil
• Laracon Australia
• Laravel Live UK
• Laravel Live India
• Laravel Nigeria

Videos

• Laracon EU 2018
• Laracon US 2018
• Laracon EU 2017
• Laracon US 2017
• Laracon EU 2016
• Laracon US 2016
• Laracon EU 2015
• Laracon US 2015
• Laracon EU 2014
• Laracon US 2014
• Laracon EU 2013
• Laracon US 2013

Books

• Laravel Starter by Shawn McCool
• Laravel: Code Happy by Dayle Rees
• Laravel: Code Bright by Dayle Rees
• Laravel: Code Smart by Dayle Rees
• Laravel: From Apprentice To Artisan by Taylor Otwell
• Laravel 4 Cookbook by Christopher Pitt and Taylor Otwell
• Laravel Testing Decoded by Jeffrey Way
• Refactoring to Collections by Adam Wathan
• Implementing Laravel by Chris Fidao
• Getting Stuff Done with Laravel 4 by Chuck Heintzelman
• Laravel Application Development Blueprints by Arda Kılıçdağı and Halil İbrahim Yılmaz
• Build APIs You Won’t Hate by Phil Sturgeon
• Integrating Front end Components with Web Applications by Maksim Surguy
• Laravel Design Patterns and Best Practices by Arda Kılıçdağı and Halil İbrahim Yılmaz
• Learning Laravel 4 Application Development by Hardik Dangar
• Getting Started with Laravel 4 by Raphaël Saunier
• Laravel Application Development Cookbook by Terry Matula
• Building Web Applications Using Parse REST API by Mhd Zaher Ghaibeh
• Laravel – My First Framework by Maksim Surguy
• Easy Laravel 5 by W. Jason Gilmore
• Laravel 5 Essentials by Martin Bean
• Easy E-Commerce Using Laravel and Stripe by W. Jason Gilmore and Eric L. Barnes
• Laravel 5.1 Beauty by Chuck Heintzelman
• Design Patterns with PHP and Laravel by Kelt Dockins
• Mastering Laravel by Christopher John Pecoraro
• How to Build Real-Time Laravel Apps with Pusher by Pusher
• Learning Laravel’s Eloquent by Francesco Malatesta
• Laravel 5 Learn Easy by Sanjib Sinha
• Laravel and AngularJS by Daniel Schmitz and Daniel Pedrinha Georgii
• Laravel Collections Unraveled by Jeff Madsen
• Writing APIs With Lumen by Paul Redmond
• The Laravel Survival Guide by Tony Lea
• Laraboot: Laravel 5 For Beginners by Bill Keck
• Laravel 5.4 For Beginners by Bill Keck
• Laravel Up & Running by Matt Stauffer
• Laravel Companion by Johnathon Koster
• Deploy Laravel on AWS with CloudFormation by Lionel Martin
• React Native and Laravel for Future Mobile Development by Ega Radiegtya
• Servers for Hackers by Chris Fidao
• Full-Stack Vue.js 2 and Laravel 5 by Anthony Gore
• Build an API with Laravel by Wacky Studio

Starter Projects

• Spark
• LaraAdmin
• Grafite Builder
• Laravel Boilerplate
• Laravel Angular Material Starter
• AdminLTE Laravel
• Laravel Hackathon Starter
• Laravel API Starter Kit
• Backpack for Laravel
• SomelineStarter
• Laravel Admin
• Voyager
• Orchid
• Laravel REST API Boilerplate
• Hello API
• REST API With Lumen
• Laravel Zero – Console application
• Apiato
• Laravel Adminpanel
• Laravel Vue Boilerplate
• Laravel Enso
• Laravel Template with Vue

Codebases for Reference

• Cachet – Status page system for websites and APIs
• Deployer – Application deployment system
• GitScrum – Task management with Git and Scrum
• Invoice Ninja – Invoicing, expenses, & time-tracking application
• Koel – Personal music streaming server
• Laravel.io – Source for the Laravel.io Community Portal
• Attendize – Ticket selling and event management platform
• Antvel – Ecommerce platform
• Jigsaw – Static site generator
• Canvas – A Laravel Publishing Platform
• Vuedo – Vuedo is blog platform, built with Laravel and Vue.js
• Screeenly – Create website screenshots through an API
• Voten – A real-time social bookmarking for the 21st century
• Monica – Personal relationship management system
• Snipe-IT – IT asset/license management system
• Akaunting – Accounting software for small businesses and freelancers
• Torch – Examples of using each Illuminate component in non-Laravel applications
• Pixelfed – A free and ethical photo sharing platform, powered by ActivityPub federation

Content Management Systems

• OctoberCMS
• SleepingOwlAdmin
• PyroCMS
• Lavalite
• TypiCMS
• Asgard CMS
• Microweber
• Coaster CMS
• Statamic
• Borgert CMS
• PJ Blog
• Laralum
• Twill

Podcasts

• The Laravel Podcast
• The Laravel News Podcast
• The Laracasts Snippet
• Hecho en Laravel (Spanish)

Community

• Laracasts Forum
• Laravel.io Forum
• Larachat Slack (Signup)
• Gitter
• IRC Channel
• StackOverflow
• Twitter
• Google+
• Reddit
• Quora
• Facebook
• LinkedIn

Local User Groups

• Laravel Global Community
• LaravelES Slack (Signup)
• Laravel India, Slack Signup, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube
• Laravel UK, Slack Signup
• Laravel Russia (VK group)
• Laravel France
• Laravel Bangladesh
• Laravel Indonesia (Facebook, Telegram)
• Laravel Brasil (Facebook, Slack, Telegram, GitHub, Discord)
• Laravel Turkey (Facebook)
• Laravel Nigeria (Facebook)
• Laravel China
• Laravel Taiwan (Facebook)
• Laravel Spanish
• Laravel Korea (Facebook)
• Laravel Japan (Facebook)
• Laravel Malaysia
• Laravel Algeria
• Laravel Greece (Facebook)
• Laravel Middle East (Facebook)
• Laravel Georgia
• Laravel Italy
• Laravel Vietnam
• Laravel Slovenia
• Laravel Hungary
• Laravel Cameroon (Slack, GitHub, Facebook, Twitter)
• Laravel Philippines

Meetups

• All Meetups
• London Meetup
• Buenos Aires Meetup
• Athens-Greece Meetup
• Copenhagen Meetup
• Detroit Meetup
• Paris Meetup
• Melbourne Meetup
• Budapest Meetup

Jobs

• LaraJobs
• Laravel Gurus

Hosted Development Tools

• Laravel Shift – Automated upgrade tool for Laravel projects
• Laravel Schema Designer – Create, export and share database schemas
• StyleCI – PHP Coding Style Service

Miscellaneous

• CodeCanyon – Paid scripts and plugins
• Laravel Collections – Every Laravel Developers Goto Resource Site
• LaravelLinks – A Telegram Channel dedicated to sharing great Laravel Resources