Abstract

One of PHP’s most popular frameworks has undergone a major version upgrade! Join us to explore what’s new in Laravel 5.0. We’ll explore putting your Controllers on a crash diet with Custom Request Objects and Method Level Dependency Injection, increasing contextuality with Route & Event Annotations, managing 3rd party authentication with Socialite, understanding the new Directory Structure and Service Provider Architecture, leveraging FlySystem Integration, improving performance with Route Caching and increasing decoupling using Contracts. Special attention will be given to contributing to the framework using the exciting new contribution tool, Liferaft.