83 Top Laravel Articles in 2016: What You Clicked in Newsletters

A little later than most “Year in Review” posts but it took some time to manually pick the most-clicked articles from our newsletter, there were 1000+ useful links from all over the web. Also I will mention authors with links to their profiles – let’s thank them for their effort! So, what topics were the most popular in 2016?

January

• Test-Driven Laravel from Scratch by Adam Wathan
• Buggy PHP Code: The 10 Most Common Mistakes PHP Developers Make by Ilya Sanosyan
• 16 awesome git aliases that you will love by Robert-Jan de Dreu

February

• Today DigitalOcean lost our entire server by Freek Van der Herten
• Statamic v2 Beta: First Impressions of a new Laravel-based flat-file CMS by Matt Stauffer
• Migrate “pretend” – view actual SQL queries before you run them by Povilas Korop
• 10 Classic Books Every Serious Developer Should Read by Deepak Karanth
• Holywar: when to use Laravel vs WordPress? by Povilas Korop (later I’ve filmed a video with updated thoughts on this topic)
• How to Consume Laravel API with AngularJS by Francesco Malatesta

March

• Laravel PHP – Create a Social Network (Full App) [VIDEO PLAYLIST SERIES] by Mindspace
• The Repository Pattern in Laravel 5 by Alireza Rahmani Khalili
• A modern backup solution for Laravel apps by Freek Van der Herten
• Review: Top 5 Laravel-based CMSs by Povilas Korop
• Add Laravel Unit Tests Directly From Chrome by Marcel Pociot
• The Ultimate Guide to Sending Email in Laravel by Chris Nwamba
• ASK ME ANYTHING: Taylor Otwell by Taylor Otwell

April

• Eloquent Create, Update, New…the Untold Story by Jeff Madsen
• Caching in Laravel with Speed Comparisons by Chris Nwamba
• Laravel Router – a package to organize your routes by Povilas Korop
• Contracts Vs Facades in Laravel 5 by Sanjib Sinha
• 7 Laravel Packages to Supercharge your Models by Prosper Otemuyiwa
• Mandrill Alternatives for PHP Applications by Sandy Smith
• Laravel Exam: questions from beginner to expert by Prosper Otemuyiwa
• Conditionally adding instructions to laravel’s query builder by Mohamed Said

May

• Cascading soft deletes with Laravel and Eloquent by Michael Dyrynda
• Announcing Laravel Valet by Eric Barnes
• Laravel 5 – How to create custom error page with example by Hardik Savani
• Laracogs: Prepare your Laravel apps incredibly fast, with commands, services, facades and boilerplates by YAB

June

• A dashboard made with Laravel + Vue by Freek Van der Herten
• Top 15 Laravel People to Follow Online by Povilas Korop
• Talk: Laravel 5 based realtime users messaging and chatting system by Nahid Bin Azhar
• A Blade directive to export PHP variables to JavaScript by Freek Van der Herten
• Design Pattern : Service Layer with Laravel 5 by François Louchart
• 4 Practical Laravel Courses for PHP Developers by Andrew Blackman
• Creating A Laravel 404 Page Using Custom Exception Handlers by John Kariuki
• Testing existing code with Laravel 5 by David Thorpe

July

• Writing modular applications with laravel-modules by Nicolas Widart
• DeveloperHourlyRate.com – our new mini-project with a simple message for clients by Povilas Korop
• Checklist: 8 Things to Do When Launching Laravel Project LIVE by Povilas Korop
• A Deep Dive into Laravel 5.3 Features by John Kariuki
• PHP framework Laravel selects Vue.js as default JavaScript framework by React etc.

August

• My new FREE e-book: “Laravel for Clients” by Povilas Korop
• 7 Less-known but Useful Carbon functions by Povilas Korop
• Optimizing Laravel 5 & MySQL for 9M+ rows. Step 1. by Will Bowman
• How to Use Laravel Routes in Javascript by Andrei Canta
• OpenLaravel: A repository of open source projects built using Laravel
• Speed test PHP vs Lumen vs Laravel by Chema Garrido
• Starting a Laravel Project: 9 Things to Discuss with Client [VIDEO] by Povilas Korop

September

• Deploying a Laravel App – Ultimate Guide [VIDEO SERIES] by DevMarketer
• Laravel LTS is a Trap by Freek Van der Herten
• The art of using Repositories in Laravel 5.3 by Abdelrahman Omran
• 80 Laravel packages?! WOW! Interview with Freek Van der Herten from Spatie by Povilas Korop
• Ajaxify Your Laravel Application Automatically by Muhammad Usman
• Tracking If a User Is Currently Online in Laravel (the easy way) by Erik Belusic
• Keeping Laravel Controllers Clean with Form Requests by Mike Knepper

October

• Interview with Ryan Thompson from PyroCMS: “It’s all about principles” by Povilas Korop
• How to automatically apply the Laravel PHP code style by Barry van Veen
• My Favourite PhpStorm Secrets [VIDEO] by Gary Hockin
• Why the Repository Pattern is Often Misunderstood in the Laravel Community by Nick Lee
• Getting started with test-driven Laravel by Amo Chohan
• Full Stack Radio – 52: Taylor Otwell – Patterns for Simplifying Laravel Applications by Taylor Otwell and Adam Wathan
• Eloquent models from my database by Cristian Llanos
• How To Refactor Code With PhpStorm by Matthew Setter

November

• Namespaces in Laravel Applications by Sid Young
• A Roundup of Laravel CMS Packages by Eric Barnes
• Why Laravel Is Slow by Jozsef Hocza
• FlarePoint: Laravel-based free CRM [REVIEW] by Povilas Korop
• 10 Quick Lessons From 6 Laravel Product Reviews by Povilas Korop
• Laravel service provider examples by Barry van Veen
• Multi-tenant saas api using laravel  –  Setting Up by Raphael Owino
• Useful Laravel Snippets by Zach Silveira
• Using the Repository Pattern in Laravel 5 by Deric Cain
• Interview with Dennis from LaraBug: “Growing faster than I could imagine” by Povilas Korop
• The Perfect Staging Environment by Michael Stivala

December

• REVIEW: 3 Tools to Generate Laravel Migrations from Existing Database by Povilas Korop
• Laration – A simple way to visualize your configs by Matheus Marabesi
• Laravel Health Panel by Antonio Carlos Ribeiro
• Laravel, the right way – PHPConference 2016 [SLIDES] by Matheus Marabesi
• LaraQuiz: how well do you know Laravel? by Povilas Korop
• Interview with Jason McCreary from Laravel Shift: “Ambitious project that gets smarter as more people use it” by Povilas Korop
• Handling Intensive Tasks with Laravel by Justin Jose
• Interview with Bobby Bouwmann: “2 Years and 1000 Best Replies on Laracasts” by Povilas Korop
• Generate Authentication for a Laravel 5.3 Web Application by Connor Leech

So, that’s it for 2016. What articles or events impressed you personally? Anything I’ve missed?

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