Useful Tools For Successful Laravel Development

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Laravel is one of the popular frameworks available for web app development now. With its easy-to-use features and functionalities, it has become the first choice of both the developers and business owners to get projects done with ease. There are many tools as well that help in easy and flawless web app development with Laravel. An experienced and skilled Laravel developer of Australia has shared a few of these tools below. 
 
PHPSTORM:
PHPStorm is one of the smartest tools of Laravel. It runs smoothly, it comes with smart code navigation that allows safe and fast refactoring, testing, and easy debugging. In addition to these, it is a great code formatter. 
 
This tool boosts the developer’s productivity while saving more time at debugging the codes. Most of the Laravel developers prefer to use PHPStorm because of the seamless performance of this tool. 
 
GITHUB or BITBUCKET:
Both Bitbucket and GitHub services are quite similar. However, developers need to select any one of these as per the project structure and the business requirements. 
 
If you are doing a project for any small business using Laravel, it is recommended to use Bitbucket. With this tool, you can even avoid sharing code repositories. 
 
However, for the open-source sites or web apps, the availability of unlimited collaborators that come with GitHub, make it one of the best choices to be used when working with Laravel. GitHub also makes it easy to push and pull the codes. 
 
LARAVEL DEBUG BAR:
Laravel debug bar is used to debug a Laravel web app. The debug bar is displayed at the browser’s bottom. The debug bar provides the complete debug information. It also has a ‘queries’ tab that reveals the total number of queries, which are already fired. 
 
The debug bar also displays the route that is called, the templates, which are rendered, and the passed parameters. Laravel debug bar also offers the option to add messages using Façade. These messages are displayed under a tab that's the ‘Message’ tab.  
 
MIGRATION:
Migration is the tool that allows developers to modify the database and then share the database schema of the application. This tool is paired up with the schema builder of Laravel so that the database schema of the application can be built with ease. If any of the developers of a team wants to add any column to the database, the developer can use this tool. It also allows developers to share the complete SQL dump. 
 
ENTRUST:
In Laravel, with this tool you can add role-based permission. There are four new tables in it – role, role user, permission role, and permission. 
 
TINKER:
Using the command line, you can easily interact with the web app that is getting built with Laravel. With this tool, you can easily access all the objects and events. 
 
NO CAPTCHA:
You need this tool for validating and projecting the reCaptcha while Laravel web app development. However, to use this Laravel tool, you will need the API key first from the reCaptcha. 
 
Web app development can be a little lengthy process sometimes. But developers always look for ways to spend much less time thereby completing the development process faster. These are the tools that can help in such cases. Use these for your next Laravel project and enjoy a seamless and faster development process. 
 
Jonathan Paul is an expert Laravel developer of Australia and is associated with leading web app development company, PHPProgrammers. The author has written this article to help out developers to use these tools for building ROI-driven web apps with Laravel and that too with ease and in less time.

Jonathan Paul is a techie, knowledgeable and highly skilled Magento Developer of Australia working with PHPProgrammers who like to share his industrial knowledge and insights with the readers.