New eBook - Step by Step Guide to Building Your First Laravel Application

Over the years, we've had readers ask us to take some of our most popular tutorials and make them into PDFs. This week I'm happy to announce our first one is now live. and it's perfect for those new to Laravel and wanted to get started.

You can get the book on Gumroad and because you are a newsletter subscriber you can use the coupon "dbepmbv" to get it for free. We have plans to make more of these in the future but we are happy to launch this first one and be able to give it to our loyal subscribers.

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Actionable Performance Insight in 4 Minutes (sponsor)

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Framework News

The Laravel team announced that they are planning to release Laravel 8 on September 8th, and they are expecting the upgrade time to be about 10-15 minutes from Laravel 7.x.

In Laravel 7 news, they released v7.2.3 and came out with a few security fixes this week. So you should definitely upgrade the laravel/framework in your apps.

PHP 8 First Beta

The PHP team released the first PHP 8 beta! We are still about four months from the v8.0.0, but you can start preparing for PHP 8 by learning about the new features, the upgrade path, and key dates to make sure you’re ready.

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Larabelles, Localization, and Web Authentication

In this episode of the Laravel News podcast, Jake and Michael discuss Larabelles, Localization, and Web Authentication plus all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.

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Laravel Identity Documents

Laravel Identity Documents is a package to parse machine-readable passports (MRZ) and other documents from images with Laravel.

Direct Printing for Laravel Apps

Laravel Printing is a package by Randall Wilk that allows your web application to send PDF documents or raw text from a remote server to a printer on your local network.

Build a SaaS app in 15 minutes (sponsor)

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Peddle is built using Cashier Paddle and has an independent architecture with its own routes, views, and authentication. You can easily customise the views that it uses, especially if you are a fan of Tailwind and Blade. Get $5 off your first year by using the coupon code "LAUNCHTIME" at checkout.

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