The document discusses Laravel, a popular open-source PHP framework known for its robust features and security, and explores its development trends, tools, and hidden features. It emphasizes Laravel's MVC architecture, development efficiency, and community resources like Laracasts for learning. Additionally, the document highlights prominent figures in the Laravel ecosystem and updates introduced in Laravel 8, which enhance its functionalities for building web applications.

1. Hidden Things
Uncovered About
Laravel Development
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2. Quick Summary: The software development
industry is becoming more integral to
nearly every sector of the world. Numbers
of frameworks and programming languages
are available, so it is not easy to choose an
ideal web development framework to build
high-performing applications. Laravel being
a renowned open-source framework,
provides plenty of excellent opportunities
and features to develop complex apps
faster. So, it is essential to know about the
latest Laravel development trends that you
should follow to improve your Laravel
application development. In this blog post, I
will cover the hidden features of Laravel
development, the latest trends about
Laravel, the future of Laravel in the coming
years, and much more.
So, let’s get started!

3. Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Laravel Development Trends 2020
3. Helpful Services in Laravel
4. Laravel Development Tools and
Resources
5. Hidden Laravel Eloquent Features
6. Top 20 Laravel People to Follow Online
7. Security of Laravel 8. Laravel
8: The second update of 2020.
9. Top 10 Successful Websites Built Using
Laravel
10 Future of Laravel Development

4. Introduction

5. In this quickly evolving technological
sector, Laravel is gaining continuous
popularity in building unique web
applications from the last few years. Laravel
offers elegant features that cover all aspects
of everyday use cases, and you can enjoy
the creative experience to be truly fulfilling.

6. Laravel is the best PHP framework offering
excellent tools for developing robust web
applications. Some of you may not be aware
of the hidden things about Laravel
development services, so I intend to share
my insights about them.
Business Development
PHP web frameworks are the most
powerful tools for building web applications
that offer tremendous importance to the
development process using the MVC
architecture pattern. It keeps its Cachet as
the best PHP frameworks because of its
functionality, clarity, and simplicity. It is
possible because of a caching system in
Laravel that stores numerous cached items
to develop applications promptly.

7. Laravel can personalize web applications
with flawless syntax and best coding
practices for organizations around the
globe. It reduces the development time and
also helps in higher coding efficiency.
Security
Laravel offers plenty of security features
that allow you to reduce the Laravel
vulnerabilities in the application. Laravel is
a web application framework that
integrates a valid token from a form or an
AJAX call.

8. Laravel
Development
Trends 2020

9. Laravel aims to take you out from the
tedious routine like authentication, caching,
sessions, and routing. It makes the
development environment faster for you
and creates a pleasing one without
sacrificing application functionality.
PHP Development
Outsourcing
PHP development outsourcing has emerged
among the top A-list programming
languages that have been leading the
development sector. There are 90% chances
that the site, which is good looking today is
developed using PHP. Laravel development
services offer robust features, leveraging
Windows, Unix, and Linux to interface with
MySQL and Apache.
Laravel Library

10. With hashing, a string of characters can be
translated into a key (readable format) that
represents the original string. All your
private information and passwords are
stored in understandable text form.
MVC Support
Laravel follows the MVC software
architecture, which supports rapid and
parallel development. MVC architecture
divides your web application into various
components and manages the entire
development process with improved
presentation and better functionality.
MVC allows you to work on the view while
the other can simultaneously work on the
controller to create the application’s
business logic.
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11. Laracasts is the best platform to learn how
to develop websites using Laravel from
scratch. The large community of Laracasts
can help you to solve all queries when
something goes wrong.
Internet of Things
Internet of Things (IoT) is the trendiest
thing in the Laravel community. A
hardware platform like Arduino is more
flexible and language agnostic, supporting
PHP and matches with other hardware.
Plenty of companies have recognized the
strength Laravel is coming up with the best
IoT solutions.
Laracasts

12. Laravel
Development
Tools and
Resources

13. Laracasts is a platform for educational
resources that will be beneficial to you as it
offers excellent screencasts about PHP in
general, Databases, and much more.
Using Laravel, you can easily become an
expert in the framework and tools you’re
going to use to develop web applications.
Let me make you aware of some
educational platforms and tool:
Learning Laravel
Laracasts

14. Laracasts Forum is the best platform for
sharing your experiences and tutorials with
others that you gained while developing
your web application. You can also ask for
advice when required.
Laravel is an excellent framework for
building web applications that are closely
related to its community. The Laravel
community manages the code and points to
things that need maintenance.
Laravel Community
Laracasts Forum

15. The Laravel ecosystem offers numerous
opportunities, powerful security features,
encryption, BCrypt, and much more.
Laravel is a powerful yet robust MVC
framework created for developing PHP web
applications.
LaravelIO is another platform to share your
insights and discuss development matters.
LaravelIO
Laravel Ecosystem

17. Helpful
Services in
Laravel

18. It is CI friendly
Allows custom applications domain
Comes with a pretty CLI tool
DNS management
Secret management
Certificate management
Environment variable
Auto-scaling web for Laravel
Database management
Redis cache management
Laravel Vapor is powered by AWS Lambda
to manage the infrastructure. It is a
serverless deployment platform for your
Laravel application.
Laravel Vapor
Features:

19. Laravel Forge is a tool for configuring your
web application to automate the
deployment using the PHP server.
Laravel Forge

20. Secure By Default
Database backups
Installs SSL certificates within seconds
Allows you to restart each service
Easily sets up necessary SSH keys
Provides an automatic setup
Free SSL Certificates
Features:

21. Laravel Shift is an automated and human
service for upgrading and improving your
Laravel application.
Laravel Shift

22. Saves your time
Keeps only one original copy of your
code
Upgrades Laravel versions instantly
Provides the fastest way to upgrade any
Laravel version
Suits best with Bitbucket, Gitlab, and
GitHub projects
Features:

23. Hidden
Laravel
Eloquent
Features

24. To execute the get original attributes,
simply call getOriginal() and you’re done.
Here is it:
$user = AppUser::first();
$user->name; //John$user->name
= "John";
//John$user->getOriginal('name'); //John
$user->getOriginal(); //Original $user
record
1. Get original attributes

25. Check the attribute using isDirty() method
and it will look like:
$user = AppUser::first();
$user->isDirty(); //false$user->name =
"John";
$user->isDirty(); //true
Check if any particular attribute is changed
or not.
$user->isDirty('name'); //true
$user->isDirty('age'); //false
2. Check if the Model
changed

26. Now, retrieve the modified attributes using
getChanges().
$user->getChanges()//[
"name" => "Peter",
]
3. Get changed attributes
4. Custom deleted_at
column
Laravel also handles soft deletes using the
delete_at column like:

27. class User extends Model
{
use SoftDeletes;
const DELETED_AT = 'is_deleted';
}
Or by defining an accessor.
class User extends Model
{
use SoftDeletes;
public function getDeletedAtColumn()
{
return 'is_deleted';
}
}

28. class User extends Model
{
public function phone()
{
return $this->hasOne('AppPhone');
}
}$user = User::first();
$user->name = "John";$user->phone-
>number = '1010101010';$user->push();
Save the corresponding relationships and
all the models of your application using the
push() method.
5. Save models and
relationships

29. $user = AppUser::first();
$user->name; // John// user record
get updated by another thread. eg: 'name'
changed to // John.$updatedUser = $user-
>fresh();
$updatedUser->name; // John$user-
>name; // John
Using the fresh() method, reload a fresh
model from the database.
6. Reload fresh model

30. $user = AppUser::first();
$user->name; // John// user record
get updated by another thread. eg: 'name'
changed to // John.$user->refresh();
$user->name; // Peter
Reload the existing model from the
database using refresh().
7. Reload existing model

31. $user = AppUser::find(1);
$sameUser = AppUser::find(1);
$diffUser = AppUser::find(2);$user-
>is($sameUser); // true
$user->is($diffUser); // false
check if both the models have the same ID
using is().
8. Check if models are the
same

32. $user = AppUser::find(1);
$newUser = $user->replicate();$newUser-
>save();
Clone the database’s model using replicate()
method.
9. Clone a model

33. $user = AppUser::find(1, ['name',
'age']);$user = AppUser::findOrFail(1,
['name', 'age']);
Using find() method, you can specify the
attributes as your second argument.
10. Specify attributes in
find() method

34. Top 20
Laravel
People to
Follow Online

35. Taylor Otwell is the Founder at Laravel. He
created the best and massively popular web
development platform called Laravel. He
started building his career around Laravel
and made it a significant part of the
development industry.
1. Taylor Otwell
Twitter: @taylorotwell
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tayl
or-otwell-23794592

36. Jeffrey Way is the Founder of Laracasts and
delivers something that you can
immediately pick up and understand!
2. Jeffrey Way
Twitter: @jeffrey_way
Podcast: The Laracasts Snippet

37. Matt Stauffer is a Laravel blogger and co-
host of Laravel Podcast. Additionally, he is a
programmer and technical director at
Tighten.
3. Matt Stauffer
Twitter: @stauffermatt
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ma
ttstauffer

38. Eric L. Barnes is the Creator of the Laravel
News blog and comes up with the
framework’s latest information.
4. Eric L. Barnes
Twitter: @ericlbarnes
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric
-barnes-19711167

39. Daylee Rees has written famous books on
Laravel such as “Code Happy,” “Code
Bright,” and “Code Smart.”
5. Dayle Rees
Twitter: @daylereesPersonal
website: http://daylerees.com/

40. Mahmoud Zalt is the Creator of LaraDock,
and additionally, he is a senior web
developer, Docker Enthusiast, and Open-
source Advocate.
6. Mahmoud Zalt
Twitter: @Mahmoud_Zalt
Personal blog: http://www.zalt.me/

41. Prosper Otemuyiwa is the Creator of the
Laravel Hackathon Starter Package and
admires what Prosper does for Nigeria’s
Laravel community.
7. Prosper Otemuyiwa
Twitter: @unicodeveloper
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pro
sperotemuyiwa

42. Shawn McCool is the host of Dev
Discussions Podcast and the organizer of
Laracon.EU.
8. Shawn McCool:
Twitter: @unicodeveloper
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pro
sperotemuyiwa

43. Freek Van der Herten is an active Laravel
blogger at Murze.be and a partner at Spatie.
9. Freek Van der Herten
Twitter: @freekmurze
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mu
rze

44. Adam Wathan is the host of Full Stack Radio
podcast and an excellent Laravel developer.
He is a blogger and author of books written
on Laravel.
10. Adam Wathan
Twitter: @adamwathan
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ada
m-wathan-9418984a

45. Marcel Pociot is a Creator of Chrome
extension Laravel Testtools and a Laravel
Evangelist.
11. Marcel Pociot
Twitter: @marcelpociot
Personal blog: http://www.marcelpociot.de/

46. Dries Vintis is the organizer of the PHP
Antwerp meetup and maintainer of the
Laravel Community.
12. Dries Vints
Twitter: @driesvints
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dri
esvints

47. Graham is the Creator of StyleCI; he also
contributed to the various packages of
Laravel core.
13. Graham Campbell
Twitter: @GrahamJCampbell
Personal website: https://gjcampbell.co.uk/

48. Barry van den Heuvel is the Creator of
Laravel packages. He also created the
famous Laravel IDE Helper and Laravel
Debugbar.
14. Barry van den Heuvel
Twitter: @barryvdh
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bar
ryvdheuvel

49. Chris Fidao is the Creator of Servers for
Hackers. He is an active Twitter user and
wrote a book named Implementing Laravel
with in-depth knowledge about how to
implement and use Laravel in easy and
understandable language.
15. Chris Fidao
Twitter: @fideloper
Personal blog: http://fideloper.com/

50. Paul Redmond wrote famous books about
Laravel, such as Lumen programming guide
and Docker for PHP Developers. He
recently contributed to Laravel News.
16. Paul Redmond
Twitter: @paulredmond

51. Jason McCreary is the Creator of the latest
upgrade service of Laravel Shift. He is an
author of a course Getting Git.
17. Jason McCreary
Twitter: @gonedark
Personal
blog: https://jason.pureconcepts.net/

52. Michael Dyrynda is the co-host of Laravel
News Podcast. He is the co-organizer of
PHP Adelaide and an active Laravel blogger.
18. Michael Dyrynda
Twitter: @michaeldyrynda
Personal blog: https://dyrynda.com.au/

53. Nuno Maduro is the Creator of Laravel zero
and an active Twitter user.
19. Nuno Maduro
Twitter: @enunomaduro

54. Mohamed recently awarded official
employee no.1 at Laravel and is enthusiastic
about blogging and internals of the
framework.
20. Mohamed Said
Twitter: @themsaid
Personal blog: https://themsaid.com/

55. Security of
laravel

56. The Laravel authentication features are
built into the application during the
development process; you just need to set
up controllers, models, and the database.
Laravel offers a robust user authentication
process, which is associated with
boilerplate code available in the scaffolding.
Laravel Authentication
System

57. Laravel typically uses CSRF tokens for
protection against fake requests. When any
request is conjured, Laravel compares the
request token in the user’s session, and if it
doesn’t match, the request is classified as
invalid, and the action is ended right there.
If you are manually creating forms using
HTML using Blade templates then don’t
forget to pass the CSRF token as shown
below:
< form name="test" >
{!! csrf_field() !!}
< !-- Other inputs can come here→
< /form >
Reduce Laravel
Vulnerabilities From
CSRF

58. Whenever you receive an XSS attack, the
attacker enters JavaScript into your
website. If any new visitor tries to access
that page of the form, it will harm it.
Let’s create a scenario where a user with
malicious intent enters the JavaScript code:
< script >alert(“You are hacked”)< /script >
If there is no XSS protection, then the
Laravel vulnerabilities will gradually
increase and execute the page reloads every
time.
The code with escape tags is shown as
HTML like:
< script >alert(“You are hacked”)< /script >
Protection against XSS

59. The most important feature of Laravel
Eloquent ORM uses PDO binding to help
you from SQL injection and makes sure that
clients cannot edit or modify the SQL
queries’ intent.
Here is the example where you’re collecting
a user’s email address from the database:
SELECT * FROM users WHERE email =
‘john@example.com’ or 1=1
In the previous example, 1=1 is a simple
logical expression that is always true. Now,
imagine where the query is directly
modified to the command instead of the
email address.
SQL Injection

60. SELECT * FROM users WHERE email =
‘john@example.com; drop table users;
There are some more options available for
talking to databases, but Eloquent is the
most popular and suitable option to prevent
SQL injection attacks caused by malicious
SQL queries.

61. Laravel Security Component
Laravel Security
Laravel-ACL
To enhance the security of your application,
Laravel offers several packages such as:
Laravel Security
Packages:

62. The second
update of
2020

63. Laravel 8 is out now with more advanced
features, including Laravel Jetstream,
model factory classes, migration squashing,
time testing helpers, dynamic blade
components, etc. Let’s talk about the latest
features of Laravel 8 in detail:

64. Laravel Jetstream is a dominant feature of
Laravel that can be executed when you’re
starting a new project. It provides the
beginning point for your project and
introduces registration, login, two-factor
authentication, and team management. The
actual Laravel UI scaffolding is now
improved in Laravel 8.
Laravel Jetstream
Models Directory
Laravel 8’s application structure consists of
an ‘app/Model’ directory. All generator
commands consider models exist in
‘app/Models;’ nevertheless, if this directory
is not located, then the framework will, by
default, assume that the application retains
the model within the ‘app/’ folder.

65. In Laravel 8, the eloquent model factories
are based on class with improved support
for relationships between factories.
Here is the syntax for creating records
using the latest model factories:
use AppModelsUser;
User::factory()->count(50)->create();
// using a model state "suspended" defined
within the factory class User::factory()-
>count(5)->suspended()->create();
Model Factory Classes

66. Squashing multiple migration files into a
single SQL file is Migration squashing. The
squashed migration files will be executed
first and the remaining files will not be the
part of the squashed schema file. Migration
squashing improves the performance of
running tests and decreases the migration
file bloat.
Migration Squashing
Improved Rate Limiting
With the latest version of Laravel, there is
enhanced limiting functionality while
supporting backward compatibility that
offers more flexibility.

67. use IlluminateCacheRateLimitingLimit;
use
IlluminateSupportFacadesRateLimiter;
RateLimiter::for('global', function (Request
$request) {
return Limit::perMinute(1000); });

68. // Travel into the future...
$this->travel(5)->milliseconds();
$this->travel(5)->seconds();
$this->travel(5)->minutes();
$this->travel(5)->hours();
$this->travel(5)->days();
$this->travel(5)->weeks();
$this->travel(5)->years();
// Travel into the past...
$this->travel(-5)->hours();
// Travel to an exact time...
$this->travelTo(now()->subHours(6));
// Return back to the present time...
$this->travelBack();
Time Testing Helpers

69. Assume that you want to render a blade
component dynamically at the runtime. To
render the component, Laravel 8 provides
the
< x-dynamic-component/ >:
< x-dynamic-component
:component="$componentName" class="mt-
4" / >
Dynamic Blade
Components

70. Assume that you want to render a blade
component dynamically at the runtime. To
render the component, Laravel 8 provides
the
< x-dynamic-component/ >:
< x-dynamic-component
:component="$componentName" class="mt-
4" / >
Dynamic Blade
Components

71. Assume that you want to render a blade
component dynamically at the runtime. To
render the component, Laravel 8 provides
the
< x-dynamic-component/ >:
< x-dynamic-component
:component="$componentName" class="mt-
4" / >
Dynamic Blade
Components

72. Top 10
successful
websites
Built Using
Laravel

73. Deltanet is a destination management
Laravel website where accessing the
website, you can experience smooth
browsing and hassle-free UI UX experience.
Laravel provides high-security, including
protection against CSRF and SQL injections.
1. Deltanet Travel

74. MyRank is an online learning platform that
makes use of the Laravel versatility and also
combines the features to blend the
functionality with aesthetic quality.
2. MyRank

75. Neighborhood Lender is a website for loans
having plenty of functionality that Laravel
offers. It uses Laravel to simplify getting
home loans and offers caching options so
that you are not required to send
information every time.
3. Neighborhood Lender

76. World walking is a website that motivates
people to walk more who don’t like to walk.
Using Laravel, the website offers various
powerful features to track your steps and
tell you if you need any walking
improvements. You will be awarded and get
rewards on the successful completion of a
target.
4. World Walking

77. Laravel Snippets is a website where you can
share snippets with the community.
5. Laravel Snippets

78. The community mainly uses LaravelIO for
Laravel developers. The forum platform is
also built using the same platform. Laravel
helps the community perform most of the
tasks such as authentication, authorization,
creating sessions, routing, and caching.
6. LaravelIO

79. Larasocial is an open-source platform for
social networking developed using Laravel
because it allows you to send requests,
accept requests, and communication
between users (chatting). You can also
integratefor extending immediate contact
with a rich code foundation.
7. Larasocial

80. If you are a freelancer, this website will be
beneficial to you. FusionInvoice is
developed using Laravel that keeps track of
monetary situations within your business
and manages it. Through Laravel, users can
host their own servers by paying a one-time
charge or choose monthly payments.
8. FusionInvoice

81. 9. Cachet

82. Cachet is developed on the Laravel platform
that makes the communication better when
the system outages to the customers and
stakeholders. Adding the Laravel features to
it allows you to solve your websites’
existing issues and services are performing
optimally and down. Sometimes it may
happen that your website isn’t performing
well, slowing down, not functioning
correctly. If these ever happened with you,
you can use Cachet, which will help you
solve problems by enabling beautiful status
pages having the list of which services are
working correctly and which aren’t.

83. 10. Orchestra Platform
Orchestra Platform provides great
deployment speed by handling user
management and Laravel extensions.

84. Future of
Laravel App
Development
Services

85. Almost more than 60% of websites are
created using the PHP web programming
language. Laravel web application
development services are gaining
continuous popularity because of its
comprehensive syntax and fantastic
functionality to develop enterprise
applications.

86. Why is Laravel Web Application
Development Services So Popular?
It is a fact that Laravel offers varied features
that makes the development process easier
and flawless for making high-performing
web applications and indicates that the
future of Laravel in the coming years is
quite promising. With Laravel development,
you can come up with the best creative
solutions and develop scalable and
adaptable web applications at cost-effective
prices. So, Laravel development’s future is
the leading position amongst all web
application frameworks in 2020 is
uninhabited and augmented growth.
Laravel development services allow you to
work on the core expertise with the
flexibility that leads to business growth and
meets the growing demand and usage.

87. Inversion of IoC is one of the most practical
features of the Laravel framework.
Laravel allows you to build authenticate
features of the application smoothly that
needs to be run to activate full-fledged
authentication modules.
Laravel cache helps to retrieve user-related
data quickly from all the view routes.
Laravel routing can create websites that are
search-engine friendly.
Laravel offers various modules that help
you to create complex and large
applications smoothly.
Artisan features of Laravel allow you to run
iterative tasks.
You can develop high-secure web
applications using Laravel.
Here are some great features of Laravel
development service that makes the framework
prevalent in the developer community:

88. There is a wide range of features offered
by the Laravel framework, and there are
some additional factors like deployment,
testing, third-party integrations, and
much to take into consideration. Hundreds
of websites are built using the Laravel
framework, and it is one of the fastest-
growing frameworks globally compared to
other similar frameworks. It provides out-
of-the-box configuration for the
Authorization and Authentication system.
Final Thoughts

89. The future of Laravel frameworks in the
coming years is bright because of the
robust features of Laravel development
services. Many top companies are using
the Laravel framework for developing
powerful web applications, and more than
60% of developers are willing to use
Laravel in the future. So, if you want to be
one of them, then Hire Laravel
Developers from a renowned Laravel
development company to cut down
development cost, complexity, and
develop a successful product following
your custom business requirements.
So, what are you waiting for? Go and start
your project today! 😊

90. Thank You