Laravel routes in your Javascript files

While I was at Laracon this year, a problem I have been having for a long while was brought up. The problem is simply that I cannot use route names in Javascript (or specifically Vue) files. I would prefer to use route names so that I did not have to make any changes should a […]

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Why Businesses Choose Laravel: Interview with Taylor Otwell

Ask any Laravel developer what they love about Laravel, and they’ll rattle off a large number of technical benefits: It’s powerful, it’s elegant, it adheres to modern coding standards, it’s well documented, etc. However, as more and more companies – including major enterprises – are adopting Laravel for custom web application development, what are their business justifications for doing so? I met Laravel’s creator, Taylor Otwell, at Lone Star PHP 2016 last month and interviewed him to get his thoughts on the business reasons for Laravel adoption. This post is a partial transcript of our interview.

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Laracon US: Attending as a Non-Developer

Photo Credit: Daniel LaBarge (Louisville, KY) If you were to look at the Laracon US speaker list, you would see that the majority of them had “Developer” or “Software Engineer” in their biographies. One even went as far as to include “Passionate” in their title. Based on the speakers, it was apparent that Laracon had an […]

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Laracon US: Day Two

Photo Credit: Daniel LaBarge (Louisville, KY) Day Two of Laracon US was on par with the first and the SiteRocket Labs team had a great experience. Just like our Day One coverage, we present a recap of the day as written by Travis. Things I’ve Come to Believe Day Two started off with a talk by Jeffrey […]

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Laracon US: Day One

Daniel LaBarge, Elena Fisher, Travis Blasingame (Louisville, KY) The SiteRocket Labs team had the privilege of attending Laracon this year in Louisville, KY. We have had a fantastic time and wanted to share our initial thoughts from Day One as shared by Daniel. Laracon kicked off to a great start with quick and easy registration […]

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Esensi/Loaders: A Handy New Laravel Package!

Hooray for Laravel 5! We are so happy to see the latest major release of the world’s most beloved PHP framework, Laravel. In the last two weeks, we’ve been upgrading all of our projects from Laravel 4.2 to Laravel 5. Taylor Otwell and a team of contributors put a ton of great work into this version! Laravel […]

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