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Prosper is a great speaker, community leader, open source hacker, technical consultant, and a fervent Developer Advocate. He is a full-stack software engineer who has worked on biometric, health and developer tools. Prosper recently co-founded a startup called Eden that’s focused on improving the quality of lives in Nigeria and currently leads the engineering team. He also co-founded forloop, the largest developer community in Africa.

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Prosper Otemuyiwa

The final day of Laracon focused on design, performance, software estimation and much more. Check out our summary of Laracon US day three.



Day Three of [Laravel US Conference](http://laracon.us/) consisted of talks about design, performance tuning, software estimation, API tools, and Laravel. Seven speakers took to the stage and it was a scintillating experience. Currently, a specific date has still not been set on the release of Laravel 5.3. Taylor made it known to everyone that it will be released in a couple of weeks. Check out our recap of [Day One](https://auth0.com/blog/laracon-summary-day-1/) and [Day Two](https://auth0.com/blog/laracon-summary-day-2/) in case you missed them.

**[Adam Wathan](https://twitter.com/adamwathan)** was back again with a presentation on *Curing the Common Loop*. He talked about how for-loops and conditionals can be totally eliminated from a piece of code, instead using higher-order functions that allow for elegant code expression. Adam did a live coding session where he eliminated for-loops, conditionals, and temporary variables in an app and replaced them with Laravel Collection methods. Check out the slides from his workshop [here](https://speakerdeck.com/adamwathan/curing-the-common-loop).

**[Fabien Potencier](https://twitter.com/fabpot)**, creator of Symfony and founder of Sensiolabs, gave a talk on *PHP Performance Tuning with Blackfire*. He talked about performance issues with PHP and PHP frameworks. And he gave insightful advice about how to track down these issues with [Blackfire](https://blackfire.io/). Check out the turorial he made on using Blackfire in your applications [here](https://blackfire.io/docs/24-days/index). Blackfire is available now on [Laravel Forge](https://forge.laravel.com).

<include src="TweetQuote" quoteText="40% of users abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load - Fabien Potencier"/>

**[Chuck Reeves](https://twitter.com/manchuck)** gave a talk on *Practical Software Estimation*. Chuck dropped nuggets of wisdom on how to provide estimates for a software project. He emphasized why developers should estimate because they are the ones writing the code. Chuck compared developers to cardiologists and gave an example of how the latter cannot be coerced into performing a surgical operation for five hours instead of eight. As a developer, if it takes you eight hours to complete a task, do not negotiate for less! Check out the slides [here](http://www.slideshare.net/manchuck/stop-multiplying-by-4-laracon).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">No estimation talk ever will be complete without Bayes Theorem. When you get new info, the level of uncertainty will decrease <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a></p>&mdash; Michael Dyrynda (@michaeldyrynda) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeldyrynda/status/759057447898054656">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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**[Jason McCreary](https://twitter.com/gonedark)**, creator of [laravelshift.com](https://laravelshift.com/), gave a talk on *YAGNI With Laravel*. **YAGNI**, an acroynm for *You Aren't Gonna Need It*, is a principle of extreme programming that states a programmer should not add functionality until deemed necessary. He advocated *KISS* - "Keep it simple, stupid!" He talked about how programmers are always tempted to over-engineer solutions and how developers pride themselves on complex architectures. With **YAGNI**, you will:

* Know when to defer decisions until tomorrow
* Trust your ability to pivot quickly
* Write less code

You need to upgrade your Laravel app without moving a muscle? check out [laravelshift.com](https://laravelshift.com/).

**Note**: Don't call **YAGNI** on security features

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Don’t customize your app namespaces. Just leave it app, it’s short and sweet. KISS — <a href="https://twitter.com/gonedark">@gonedark</a></p>&mdash; Laravel News (@laravelnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/laravelnews/status/759090695604797441">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“…perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a></p>&mdash; Michael Dyrynda (@michaeldyrynda) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeldyrynda/status/759089775856889856">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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**[Colin DeCarlo](https://twitter.com/colindecarlo)**, gave a talk on *Keeping Eloquent Eloquent*. Eloquent is Laravel's ORM. He talked about the mistakes he's made using Eloquent. He advocated the following when using Eloquent:

* On every model, create a defaults property and populate it with key value pairs of attribute and value. Merge with set values
* Don't circumvent the abstraction layer provided by Eloquent
* Use the source!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Cannot believe I am in the same room as big cat demarco!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a></p>&mdash; Rob Drimmie (@RobDrimmie) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobDrimmie/status/759099135152840704">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>

**[Jeremy Lindblom](https://twitter.com/jeremeamia)**, an active contributor to [Guzzle](https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle) and [AWS SDK](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php) and creator of [Superclosure](https://github.com/jeremeamia/super_closure) talked about *Lumen, Guzzle & Swagger*. He talked about API endpoints, HTTP methods, and how developers can leverage Swagger, Lumen, and Guzzle to develop great RESTFUL APIs and microservices. Check out the slides [here](https://speakerdeck.com/jeremeamia/apis-with-lumen-guzzle-and-swagger).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;Swagger is a representation of your representational API that is a representation of your data&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremeamia">@jeremeamia</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a></p>&mdash; Sara Bine (@sara_bine) <a href="https://twitter.com/sara_bine/status/759126262937812992">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Documentation still doesn’t help us cross the bridge between client and server but the bridge is there <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a></p>&mdash; Michael Dyrynda (@michaeldyrynda) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeldyrynda/status/759128479853981696">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Which of the hundred different ways would you like to implement JSON? HATEOAS, HAL, JSON-LD, JSON-API, something else? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a></p>&mdash; Michael Dyrynda (@michaeldyrynda) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeldyrynda/status/759121971137228800">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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**[Ryan Singer](https://twitter.com/rjs)**, product strategist at Basecamp, gave a talk titled *Design: Case Study*. He talked about the processes involved in creating a product, from rough sketch to a functional UI that's finally handed over to the developers.

![Tower of Interface Design](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/7x7d5qEQVm7KKFV9EALYz8/4c44a906bdf9ce641195941e6548011b/CokFDq6UkAA7Gtl)
_Tower of Interface Design_

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Flows -&gt; Affordances -&gt; 2D layout<br><br>The layout isn’t important; you won’t have to rewrite any code. Views are separate <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a></p>&mdash; Michael Dyrynda (@michaeldyrynda) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeldyrynda/status/759138285738274816">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A real concrete UI is good for giving developers requirements <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a>  - <a href="https://twitter.com/rjs">@rjs</a></p>&mdash; Prosper Otemuyiwa (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/759145459172708356">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/rjs">@rjs</a>&#39;s &quot;Tower of Interface Design&quot;<br><br>Domain experience<br>Situations (withdrawal)<br>Flows (fast cash)<br>Accordances (inputs)<br>2D Layout<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a> 💎</p>&mdash; Troy Harvey (@troyharvey) <a href="https://twitter.com/troyharvey/status/759150508867215360">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>

## Conclusion

Laracon US 2016 is actually the first Laravel Conference to be 95 percent technical talks. All the speakers were great and the talks were educational and insightful.

If you are just getting started in developing Laravel 5 apps, check out our [Laravel app tutorial](https://auth0.com/blog/2016/06/23/creating-your-first-laravel-app-and-adding-authentication/). Need an alternative means of adding authentication and authorization to your Laravel apps? <a href="https://auth0.com/signup" data-amp-replace="CLIENT_ID" data-amp-addparams="anonId=CLIENT_ID(cid-scope-cookie-fallback-name)">Sign up</a> for a free Auth0 account and get your user authentication set up in few minutes using our [Laravel quickstarts](https://auth0.com/docs/quickstart/webapp/laravel). Building an API using Laravel and wondering how to add authentication using JWT? Auth0 has got you covered. Check out our [Laravel API quickstarts](https://auth0.com/docs/quickstart/backend/php-laravel) to implement that in less than 10 minutes.

Many developers are already getting their hands dirty with Laravel 5.3 using the *dev* version. You can also try it out and tell us what you think in the comment section! Hopefully, about two weeks from now, Laravel Scout, Laravel Passport, Laravel Notifications, Laravel Mailable, and Laravel 5.3 will be officially released to the public.

Laracon 2016 Summary - Day Three

Laravel 5.3 is here. Learn more and get caught up on all the news coming out of Laracon US 2016.



Day Two of the  [Laravel US Conference](http://laracon.us/) consisted of more talks and workshops. Seven speakers took to the stage, and we had the first soft talk of the conference. Check out our [recap of Day One](https://auth0.com/blog/laracon-summary-day-1/) to learn about the Laravel 5.3 overview by Taylor Otwell and the technical workshops that happened on the first day.

**[Evan You](https://twitter.com/youyuxi)** was back again with another live demo on *Single-Page Applications with Vue, Vue Router & Vuex*. He demonstrated the importance of Vuex to Vuejs in relation to Redux with React. Check out the slides for his Vue.js workshop [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wZWkSkMBsPtUmiGY8T4MnjCZ6xaKjElkK1MjJoj9C48/edit#slide=id.p).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In Vue devtools, you can actually export the state of your app as a json file to send to another developer 😱😱😱😱😱😱 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a></p>&mdash; Prosper Otemuyiwa (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/758668716808761344">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>

**[Jack McDade](https://twitter.com/jackmcdade)** presented the first soft talk of the conference. His presentation was on *Wizards, Lawnmowers, and Hovercrafts*. Very insightful presentation about product design, people culture, and work perspectives. Check out the slides [here](https://speakerdeck.com/jackmcdade/wizards-lawnmowers-and-hovercrafts).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Failure is an EVENT not a person. <a href="https://twitter.com/jackmcdade">@jackmcdade</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a></p>&mdash; John Kary (@johnkary) <a href="https://twitter.com/johnkary/status/758678689953349632">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You don&#39;t need to wait for managers and execs to change company culture. Start with yourself <a href="https://twitter.com/jackmcdade">@jackmcdade</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a> <a href="https://t.co/yiazTsSg00">pic.twitter.com/yiazTsSg00</a></p>&mdash; Wade Urry (@iWader) <a href="https://twitter.com/iWader/status/758678224188510208">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
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**Note:** Of all the presenters today, he had the finest slides!

**[Ben Ramsey](https://twitter.com/ramsey)**, creator of the popular [UUID PHP library](https://github.com/ramsey/uuid) covered a lot about the history of HTTP and HTTP/2. He talked about the challenges and processes that occurred from the initial version of HTTP up until HTTP/2 came about. Check out the slides [here](https://speakerdeck.com/ramsey/http-is-dead-long-live-http2-laracon-2016). **HTTP is Dead. Long live HTTP/2!**

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">No more image sprites or inline images with HTTP2 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a></p>&mdash; Michael Dyrynda (@michaeldyrynda) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeldyrynda/status/758697391167897600">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The new HTTP 👇👇👇👇 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a> <a href="https://t.co/MLMrgXnYWN">pic.twitter.com/MLMrgXnYWN</a></p>&mdash; Prosper Otemuyiwa (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/758690621750177792">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;HTTP is dead&quot; simply means RFC 2616 is dead <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a> <a href="https://t.co/xhuOrY42b1">pic.twitter.com/xhuOrY42b1</a></p>&mdash; Prosper Otemuyiwa (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/758689045568520192">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
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**Note:** The sound of Ramsey's voice has a strong resemblance with that of Tom Hanks!

**[Zeev Suraski](https://twitter.com/zeevs)**, co-architect of PHP, talked about the *PHP 7 Story*. He talked about the history of PHP from the initial version up to PHP 7. He also highlighted benchmark performances of each major PHP version.

**Note:** Zeev is crazy about spicy foods!

**[Amanda Folson](https://twitter.com/AmbassadaorAwsum)**, developer advocate @ Gitlab. Her talk was on building APIs with Lumen. Check out the slides [here](https://speakerdeck.com/afolson/zero-to-api-with-lumen).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="und" dir="ltr">Example Pokédex API by <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbassadorAwsum">@AmbassadorAwsum</a> with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LumenPHP?src=hash">#LumenPHP</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/pokemon?src=hash">#pokemon</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/php?src=hash">#php</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LaravelSF?src=hash">#LaravelSF</a> <a href="https://t.co/WqgVG5YCoG">pic.twitter.com/WqgVG5YCoG</a></p>&mdash; Paul Foryt (@pauly4it) <a href="https://twitter.com/pauly4it/status/758745145667747843">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It’s a good idea to hide id’s in API results — <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbassadorAwsum">@AmbassadorAwsum</a></p>&mdash; Laravel News (@laravelnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/laravelnews/status/758745219944685571">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
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**[Matthew Machuga](https://twitter.com/machuga)**, senior developer at *Think Through Math*, gave a talk on **Tests Should Tell a Story**. He gave some really good tips and tricks for testing, like the ones below:

* Write a failing test first
* Write the smallest amount of code
* Listen to feedback and refactor code and test in pieces.

He also talked about a **feature-first** approach in building software.

* Build only what your client needs at that moment
* Support slice plans
* Waste few resources to test and idea
* Provide readable, agreed-upon specs for stakeholders
* Encourage collaboration

Check out the slides [here](https://speakerdeck.com/machuga/tests-should-tell-a-story).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When we&#39;re building software, we need to ask the stakeholders questions. Details, details, details! <a href="https://twitter.com/machuga">@machuga</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/LaraconUS">@LaraconUS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a></p>&mdash; Caryn Humphreys (@LadyCarni) <a href="https://twitter.com/LadyCarni/status/758764162977705985">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>

**[Sandi Metz](https://twitter.com/sandimetz)**, popular Rubyist and author of *Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby* gave a talk on **Get A Whiff of This**. She talked about the various types of code smells and a practical object-oriented approach in writing good code. She also mentioned that every code smell can be mapped to a recipe that cures it via refactoring. Check out the slides [here](https://speakerdeck.com/skmetz/get-a-whiff-of-this).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I could seriously sit and listen to <a href="https://twitter.com/sandimetz">@sandimetz</a> talk about programming all day. This talk is _ultra_ illuminating. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a></p>&mdash; CS (@cschmitz81) <a href="https://twitter.com/cschmitz81/status/758781530072289282">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;Testing is like a canary in a coal mine. If your testing is hard that means your code is bad&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/sandimetz">@sandimetz</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/whoa?src=hash">#whoa</a></p>&mdash; Jon (@jfarl5) <a href="https://twitter.com/jfarl5/status/758779731550605314">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“Code smell.” Does NOT mean “I don’t like the code you wrote and I can’t explain why.” <a href="https://twitter.com/sandimetz">@sandimetz</a></p>&mdash; Eric L. Barnes (@ericlbarnes) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericlbarnes/status/758773060182810624">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>

**Note:** This is the first PHP conference Sandi has ever attended!

## Conclusion

Day Two of Laracon US has been awesome. Two speakers actually used Ruby code to drive home points in their presentations today. It amazingly brought a fresh perspective to the way we use code in the PHP land. I'll update this post as soon as I lay my hands on speaker slides that are currently not referenced here. There are seven speakers lined up for the final day of Laracon US 2016. There will be more technical talks and hopefully Taylor will unveil some other Laravel and open-source goodness!

I'll leave you with a list of additional resources and links to help you both learn Laravel and stay up to date with the latest news and announcements.

 * [Laravel news](https://laravel-news.com/) - Latest Laravel news, also maintains a live blog for Laracon
 * [Laracasts](https://laracasts.com/series/whats-new-in-laravel-5-3) - Learn everything about PHP and what's new in laravel 5.3
 * [Matt Stauffer's blog](https://mattstauffer.co/blog/series/new-features-in-laravel-5-3) - Learn about the latest Laravel 5.3 features

Laracon 2016 Summary - Day Two



The annual [Laravel US](http://laracon.us/) conference is upon us once again. Everyone is excited about the upcoming release of Laravel 5.3. Taylor Otwell and several Laravel Community members have been tweeting about changes and salient new features for weeks now.

In today's short post, we'll recap all the big announcements coming out of Laracon US 2016. Four incredible speakers mounted the stage today, and there were lots of wonderful moments all through their talks. Three of the speakers broke the *no live coding in a presentation* rule today and it was awesome!

**[Adam Wathan](https://twitter.com/adamwathan)** opened the Laravel Conference with his workshop on **Test Driven Laravel**. He literally created a simple twitter clone using test-driven development. Adam also talked about his new side project-[Building Robust Laravel applications with TDD](https://adamwathan.me/test-driven-laravel/). Like I said earlier, no slides, just live coding!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Programming by Wishful thinking, Let the tests guard you - <a href="https://twitter.com/adamwathan">@adamwathan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TDDInLaravel?src=hash">#TDDInLaravel</a></p>&mdash; Prosper Otemuyiwa (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/758293597892579328">July 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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**[Evan You](https://twitter.com/youyuxi)** did a live demo on the new [Vuejs 2.0](https://vuejs.org/). Check out his slides for his Vue.js workshop [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16MpK3I2LZz47QdLg3uMNkCC3PqmM0znXF3-FdCEpics/edit#slide=id.g15faa8fa0f_0_60).

<blockquote>
    Every component can be seen as a ViewModel, connecting a piece of DOM and a piece of state - Evan You
</blockquote>

Want to learn how to build a Vuejs 2.0 app? Check [here](https://auth0.com/blog/2016/07/14/create-an-app-in-vuejs-2/). If you want to learn how to add authentication to a Vuejs app, check out our [quickstarts](https://auth0.com/docs/quickstart/spa/vuejs).

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**[Chris Fidao](https://twitter.com/fideloper)** covered a lot about **Servers for Hackers**. He talked about Security, Firewall, ipv6, iptables, and Supervision. All the things he talked about can be found on [serversforhackers.com](https://serversforhackers.com/). You can also get his [book](https://book.serversforhackers.com/). Check out his slides [here](https://speakerdeck.com/fideloper/server-survival). However, with [webtask](https://webtask.io/), you can write serverless apps. You don't need to worry about server provisioning and scaling, **Auth0** takes care of that for you!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sitting in <a href="https://twitter.com/fideloper">@fideloper</a>&#39;s presentation on server admin grok-ing stuff that the server admin at a prev job told me I wouldn&#39;t get. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a></p>&mdash; CS (@cschmitz81) <a href="https://twitter.com/cschmitz81/status/758381036027973636">July 27, 2016</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As a 20+ year SysAdmin, I can say that <a href="https://twitter.com/fideloper">@fideloper</a> is doing a fantastic job talking about all these server things in his talk at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laracon?src=hash">#Laracon</a>.</p>&mdash; Bill Wheeler (@phpdreams) <a href="https://twitter.com/phpdreams/status/758377870704074756">July 27, 2016</a></blockquote>


**Note:** Chris actually smashed a spider on stage. Call that **Live debugging**!

## Taylor Otwell Laravel 5.3 Overview

**[Taylor Otwell](https://twitter.com/taylorotwell)** actually closed Day 1 talks with some pretty impressive announcements about new features coming to Laravel 5.3 and four major open source projects that will scale up the development time of any Laravel developer. I'll cover these new features a bit here.

### Laravel Scout

Laravel Scout is an optional drop-in package that offers full-text search for Eloquent Models. It ships with Algolia and offers a driver-based system so that anyone can actually integrate other full-text search systems. With Scout, after adding the `ScoutServiceProvider`, you'll be able to add a `Searchable` trait to your model and do something like so:

```php

Post::search('Prosper')->get(); // normal search
Post::search('Prosper')->paginate(20); // pagination option is also available
Post::search('Prosper')->where('category_id', 2)->get(); // inclusion of simple where clauses too

```

```php

Post::all()->searchable();
User::posts()->searchable();

```
### Laravel Passport

Laravel Passport literally blew my mind. Creating an OAuth2 Server can really be daunting. There are a few PHP packages out there that you can use, but they still involve a lot of work for the developer. Laravel Passport is an optional drop-in package that allows you to create an OAuth2 Server in about five minutes.  With Laravel Passport, you can get personal access tokens for users right from an Artisan command. It ships with Vue components for token generation, revocation, and a robust API authentication out of the box. You can easily set scopes by just enabling the scope middleware.

Want a single API for both mobile and internal web app calls? Laravel Passport will take care of it via [JWT](https://jwt.io) tokens.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I&#39;ve been more excited this year about things coming out of <a href="https://twitter.com/LaraconUS">@LaraconUS</a> than of Apple&#39;s WWDC... Excellent work <a href="https://twitter.com/taylorotwell">@taylorotwell</a></p>&mdash; Martín Peverelli (@MartinPeverelli) <a href="https://twitter.com/MartinPeverelli/status/758459310267633664">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
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### Laravel Notifications

Laravel Notifications allow you to send quick updates to your users via services like SMS, email and Slack. In your Notification class, you have a `via` and `message` method like so:

```php
.....
public function via($notifiable)
{
    return ['mail', 'slack', 'sms']; // notification drivers
}

public function message()
{
    // If it's a notification success message, here you go
    $this->line('You can now use webtask.io for your serverless apps')
    ->action('Button Text', 'http://auth0.com')
    ->line('Please check it out!')
    ->success()

    // If it's a notification error message, here you go
    $this->line('We had a problem with your intro mail')
    ->action('Button Text', 'http://support.com')
    ->error()
}
```

Notifications also come with a responsive email template that detects email type (info, success, error) out of the box!

### Laravel Mailable

In Laravel 5.3, there's a less busy way to send emails. You can now send emails like so:

```php

// To one address
Mail::to($user)->send(new EmailClass($someParameter));

// To multiple addresses & queueing at the same time!
Mail::to('prosper@example.com')->cc('johndoe@example.com')->queue(new OrderComplete);
```

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Big fan of that new mail api. The closure way always felt a bit clunky <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laracon?src=hash">#laracon</a></p>&mdash; Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) <a href="https://twitter.com/freekmurze/status/758405374143819776">July 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Other notable things Taylor mentioned are as follows:

* Single route file getting split into web.php and api.php in Laravel 5.3,
* Elixir 6.0 ships with Laravel 5.3. Supports rollup and webpack by default.
* Timeouts in queue worker will not make it frozen. Instead, it will *let it go* and keep processing the next
* Auth scaffolding moved from inline script/css with CDNs to a compiled js/css file
* Queueing greatly improved in Laravel 5.3
* Laravel 5.3 sets you up with boilerplate to work with Vue.js straight out of the box
* Laravel 5.3 packages will be able to register migrations to run with no work from the package user.

Want to learn how to build your first app using Laravel? Check out this [tutorial](https://auth0.com/blog/2016/06/23/creating-your-first-laravel-app-and-adding-authentication/).

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## Conclusion

Day 1 of Laracon US has been incredible. Laravel 5.3 will no doubt attract more PHP developers to use Laravel to build their next set of applications because of all these insane features and packages that Laravel and its community provides. Laravel 5.3 will be released a few weeks from now because Taylor wants the documentation to include all the improvements and new features.

 To conclude, I'll leave you with a list of additional resources and links to help you both learn Laravel and stay up to date with the latest news and announcements.

 * [Laravel news](https://laravel-news.com/) - Latest Laravel news, also maintains a live blog for Laracon
 * [Laracasts](https://laracasts.com/series/whats-new-in-laravel-5-3) - Learn everything about PHP and what's new in laravel 5.3
 * [Matt Stauffer's blog](https://mattstauffer.co/blog/series/new-features-in-laravel-5-3) - Learn about the latest Laravel 5.3 features


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