Category: Development

Laravel Packages 2016-11

Accessing Echo inside Vue
https://github.com/happyDemon/vue-echo

Role-based Permissions for Users
https://github.com/santigarcor/laratrust

Another Media Manager (with Glide integration)
https://github.com/EscapeWork/laramedias

Generate Laravel Database Migrations from database directly
https://github.com/Xethron/migrations-generator

Add User Roles and Permissions to Laravel
https://github.com/caffeinated/shinobi/

Laravel Boilerplate
https://github.com/rappasoft/laravel-5-boilerplate

Laravel Packages 2016-10

Upload and associate files with Eloquent models
https://github.com/spatie/laravel-medialibrary

Retrieve from Google Analytics
https://github.com/spatie/laravel-analytics

MailChimp integration
https://github.com/spatie/laravel-newsletter

Image manipulation
https://github.com/spatie/laravel-glide

Objective string parsing and manipulation
https://github.com/spatie/string

Fractal API (data transformation)
https://github.com/spatie/laravel-fractal

User permissions and roles
https://github.com/spatie/laravel-permission

Menu HTML generator from routes
https://github.com/spatie/laravel-menu

Config your own DNS server

This article assume you have a default Ubuntu 14.04 Server installed.

Config the DNS Server

Note:
10.0.0.200 should be your Ubuntu server’s IP
Assuming you want to use Google’s DNS (i.e. 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4)
Added are two wildcard domains: *.app and *.dev and they will all point to localhost
You can also add more in /etc/dnsmasq.conf in this format “address=/DOMAIN/IP”

apt-get install dnsmasq
cp /etc/dnsmasq.conf /etc/dnsmasq.conf.org

cat > /etc/dnsmasq.conf << EOL
domain-needed
bogus-priv
no-resolv
no-poll
server=/localnet/10.0.0.200
server=8.8.8.8
server=8.8.4.4
local=/localnet/
address=/double-click.net/127.0.0.1
no-hosts
expand-hosts
EOL

cat > /etc/dnsmasq.d/app-tld << EOL
local=/app/
address=/app/192.168.10.10
EOL

cat > /etc/dnsmasq.d/dev-tld << EOL
local=/dev/
address=/dev/127.0.0.1
EOL

service dnsmasq restart

Optional: Update your router to use your own custom DNS Server

If you do this the custom domains on your DNS will be applied to all computers using your router. And if you do this you don’t have to add your own DNS server IP to your NIC’s DNS Server list anymore.