Considering update to Laravel 5.5

[mikimaine]

Since Laravel 5.5 will be released this month should we consider updating this based on the dev branch of Laravel 5.5?

[rappasoft]

I created a channel in slack called bp_update where we can take this conversation because this page is getting long.

[shirshak55]

rappsoft can you give url to slack channel?

[rappasoft]

@bloggervista https://laravel-5-boilerplate.herokuapp.com/

[shirshak55]

@rappasoft can we move away from that FORM laravel collective package. If you want I can PR it. Anyway amount of code is nearly same and this is package is not used by many people .

[rappasoft]

I use it a lot for the form model method, someone said you can do the same thing using Vue binding but I don't know how right now.

[lloricode]

hmmm may I ask something?

estimate time to wait for 5.5?

:+1:

[nasirkhan]

Very valid question. I was asking the same, that we are ok to wait and should have a tentative release date. But as @rappasoft works on this project in his free time and obviously he has other projects, he can not commit a specific date.

All we can do is to request him 😄 and wait a while. At the same time we can assist him to complete the project.

To know the latest updates you can join the slack channel at https://laravelboilerplate.slack.com/messages/C75A9UJBC/

[rappasoft]

Yes I have a todo list in the 5.5 slack channel if anyone wants to help.

[lloricode]

@rappasoft, yes I pull the branch feature/5.5, but it seams to be long journey :D

I thought composer.json is the only need to change for upgrading to a new latest laravel framework.

[rappasoft]

Haha not exactly.

[illuminate3]

What is the over goal for this project? It would be nice to have a defined feature set that we all could help to submit PRs or even ideas.

[shirshak55]

@illuminate3 If you can help then you can check 5.5 development branch and send pull request.

Remove unused language lines when completed Get images/logo.png to stop generating on npm dev Get spatie/activitylog working correctly Can't get pace-js to load in without causing errors (Commented out in js/backend/before.js) Fix log viewer BS4 views Add a nice page header section that the views can extend instead of throwing an H1 at the top which looks like shit.

Join at heroku https://laravelboilerplate.slack.com/messages/C75A9UJBC/files/F75F8FM7X/ for more info

[Drivez]

@rappasoft Have you checked out the https://github.com/rinvex/fort package for authentication?

[rappasoft]

Already have spatie baked in

[illuminate3]

@Drivez and @rappasoft

Fort takes care of the authentication and has 2 factor ability. Spatie seems to more involved with authorization.

Any reason to go with Spatie over Bouncer or Shinobi from caffinated?

[rappasoft]

I like spatie packages because they always use the most up to date PHP versions and never go stale. I'm not trying to give everyone all the features, it should be easy enough to swap them out if someone wanted to.

[illuminate3]

Makes sense.

[vesper8]

I stopped using laravelcollective's form in favour of spatie's https://github.com/spatie/laravel-html

I think it's worth a look, I find it more useful and more updated

[illuminate3]

@vesper8

I haven't seen that yet. That does look more useful! Thanks

[R00tes]

@rappasoft Señor, is possible to do a "php artisan make:backend NameOfTheLink" That generate the files that we need for after work on them. that would be amazing for amateurs like me.. :)

[poseso]

De hecho hay un paquete de una colega que hace basicamente todo por ti aca el link :

https://github.com/amamarul/boiler-plate-commands

[rappasoft]

The 5.5 branch is in its final stages, I want to thank everyone for their help. It's been a massive upgrade.