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Why Laravel? 40 Must-Have Laravel Tools & Resources

Published Oct 04, 2019
Why Laravel? 40 Must-Have Laravel Tools & Resources

Why Laravel?
Project development is a combination of hard and soft skills. As a client, your main responsibility lies in the field of soft ones. Indeed, it’s developers’ task to write the code and embody your idea. You express your vision and the team provides hard skills to satisfy your needs. But in reality the process of development is more sophisticated.

The developers may understand your idea, but they don’t know the business needs like you do. Moreover, the developers usually have a little concern about business things. That’s why, it is not enough to express your idea, no matter how good it is. The successful project management presupposes that you always there to make decisions. You should be ready to answer all the questions and comment all the ongoing processes.

You don’t have to be technologically competent. All I’m saying is that you need to see the opportunities the world of technologies gives to you. And Laravel is one of them.

Laravel is a well-known PHP framework. It is exactly the framework that eases the life of any client. It doesn’t matter what product you want to create. Laravel comes with the various tools that help your developers to realise your ideas.

First of all, I want to mention that the Laravel framework is easy to learn. Due to its educational tools every developer can become a Laravel expert. Here is the list of my favorite educational tools for Laravel:
Laracasts
Laracon Online
Laravel Core Adventures
Laravel Certification
Test Driven Laravel
Build a Chatbot Course
Confident Laravel
Effective PHP

Laravel faces the rapid growth largely due to its community. They constantly assist developers and points to the problems that need to maintained. Here is the list of communities I like:
Laracasts Forum
LaravelIO
Larachat Slack Channel
Laravel News
Laravel Podcast
LaraJobs
Laravel blog

But the main thing I can’t stop praising is Laravel ecosystem. It consists of various irreplaceable development tools. I want to list some tools you can use for free:
Laravel Valet
Laravel Homestead
Laravel Passport
Laravel Scout
Laravel Dusk
Laravel Socialite
Laravel Echo
Laravel Medialibrary
Laravel Mix
Laravel Cashier
Laravel Envoy
Laravel Horizon
BotMan Studio
Laravel Tenancy
Lumen
Laravel Telescope
Laravel WebSockets
Here are some paid tools for Laravel:
Laravel Forge
Laravel Vapor
ChipperCI
Flare
Laravel Spark
Laravel Nova
Laravel Shift
Laravel Envoyer
If you want to find out more information about these tools, read the full article. There you will find the description of every tool and its main features.
The number of tools you can use with Laravel is really impressive. And all of them have specific purposes. They are made to ease, speed up and improve the quality of the product development process.

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