Laravel UK

The most exciting coding group in the UK

Welcome To Laravel UK

Welcome to the new LaravelUK website folks. Due to the huge growth of the Slack group, it seemed like we needed to evolve and expand, so with the help of some prominent community members that joined in the early days, our new baby has been born. Special thanks to the amazing @stevepop for his work here, without him you would not be reading this.

We have designed the site to be expanded as we go, but initially it is a place where we can all store any resources that we think our community members may find useful, since they are deleted from the #resources Slack channel after what seems like no time at all! In addition, you... Read more

Artisans Welcome!

Laravel UK is the community I wish I had come across when I just started out as a developer and most especially when I started trying out Laravel. In spite of my years of experience, I am happy to be a part of this community which started off during the last Laracon Online Conference which held on March 8th 2017.

If you are experienced or you are just starting out your development career or you just fancy hanging out with cool and helpful bunch of smart people, Laravel UK is it. Check us out on Twitter or join our Slack Group

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Laravel UK Conference 2018

The first official UK Laravel Conference has been announced for 2018! The conference aims to bring together the huge Laravel community in the UK (and further afield) for 2 days of inspirational talks, engaging networking and amazing learning opportunities. For more information and to get your name o... Read more


Am I The Average Of The Whole Community?

AM I THE AVERAGE OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY? “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn I remember reading the above quote several years ago from Jom Rohn, a motivational speaker and self-help guru. I remember relating it to other people rather than myself. ... Read more


Laravel London - September 2017

On Tuesday evening, the largest throng of UK Artisans yet to meet at Laravel London came together at the dizzying heights of Energy Aspects' office on the 32nd Floor of 25 Canada Square, Canary Wharf. It's been quite a while since the last Laravel London and it seemed like everyone was chomping at t... Read more


Laravel London - September 2017

On Tuesday evening, the largest throng of UK Artisans yet to meet at Laravel London came together at the dizzying heights of Energy Aspects' office on the 32nd Floor of 25 Canada Square, Canary Wharf. It's been quite a while since the last Laravel London and it seemed like everyone was chomping at t... Read more


6 Months Old And Other Thoughts

Happy half year LaravelUK - we were 6 months old last week! Its been quite a ride, and our amazing community has grown way past 280 members now (thats about 250 more than originally predicted!). We have nearly 450 following the official Twitter, and have sent around 120,000 messages inside the Slack... Read more


Laravel on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows!

Before we were introduced to "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" - the Windows Subsystem for Linux, Windows was still a viable Operating System for PHP development. Using combinations of Git Bash, Homestead, Vagrant, Docker and other tools to circumvent the fact it's not Unix like. Essential tools... Read more


Writing Your First Laravel Package!

Laravel is an elegant and powerful framework that give you the tools you need to build your PHP applications. There are sometimes however, when you need specific functionality which you cannot get out of the box or where you have to solve a problem while implementing a feature common across a numb... Read more


The Essense of Community!

If there is one thing that attracts many people to Laravel, it's more about the community than the framework itself. Laravel UK is one of such community. It is a place where you have people with varying degrees of expertise. Unlike some communities where some people are ridiculed when they ask some ... Read more