Awesome Laravel

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

Inspired by ziadoz/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

Contributing

Found an awesome package, blog, course or video? Send me a pull request!

Guidelines

• Please make an individual pull request for each suggestion

• Make sure the Travis tests pass on your pull request

• Use the following format for links: [Resource](URL)

• Want to suggest a package? Read the Contribution Guide

• New categories or improvements to the existing categorization are welcome

License

Awesome Laravel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.