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Black Friday 2026: 50% Off Your First Year, or 30% Off Forever

It's that time of the year again. Everybody's hunting for a great deal (especially in these crazy times - amirite?!) so this year we have two Black Friday coupons for you. One saves you more right now. The other saves you more ove...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report: October 2026

October was a month of two speeds. On the package side, just a handful of releases. On our own admin panel... we built something we liked so much that we're launching it as an add-on today. But first, the boring-but-important stuf...

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Cristian Tabacitu

A free map field for Backpack, from the community: siberfx/backpack-leafletjs

I just found out about siberfx/backpack-leafletjs and I think more of you should know about it. It's a map field for Backpack, built on...

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Cristian Tabacitu

llms.txt and MCP didn't move the needle for us. Here's what did.

Two years ago, an admin panel for a simple website took me a day, maybe two - and I was proud of how fast I was. Now it takes me about...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report: September 2026

September was a busy month at Backpack HQ. We launched a new add-on, gave the Tabler theme nine new looks, tightened up file uploads an...

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Cristian Tabacitu

We replaced our $100/month AI chatbot with three Laravel packages and a $6 server

If you've been around for a while, you'll know we've had an AI chatbot on our website for years. We moved from Kapa AI to CrawlChat......

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Cristian Tabacitu

New Skins for Backpack

A lot of Backpack admin panels look the same. Purple buttons, purple links, that mesh gradient in the back. It's a good look - I picked...

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Cristian Tabacitu

New Package: Multi Auth

Backpack\CRUD, our free and open-source core, comes with email-and-password login, out of the box. While that's enough for most admin p...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - August 2026

It's been an active August here at Backpack HQ. Now that you're back from holiday... we've got new stuff for you: Maintenance CRUD - 7...

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Cristian Tabacitu

HOW TO - Link two datepickers with a small javascript snippet

Don't let admins pick a "To" date before the "From" date Every admin panel that deals with dates hits this sooner o...

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Pedro Martins

Progress Report - July 2026

While you've been on holiday, we've been cooking. Let's get into it! Maintenance CRUD - 2 updates (we're at v7.1.1) PRO - 3 updates (v...

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Cristian Tabacitu

House cleaning - starting with the datepickers

Every codebase has that corner. You know the one. The drawer you don't open. The files you scroll past a little faster. The thing that...

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Pedro Martins

Why I am excited about Backpack v7.1 release

Backpack v7.0 was a big release. Data components, chips, skins, lifecycle hooks etc. A lot of things changed under the hood. But for me...

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Pedro Martins

Progress Report: June 2026

It's been another productive month at Backpack HQ. Pedro has been on 🔥 this month, single-handedly helping us finish a thorough securi...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Security Advisory in Backpack\CRUD - Unauthenticated Command Injection

On May 16th 2026 we received a responsible disclosure report from security researcher Vishal Shukla (@therawdev) identifying an obscure...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Backpack DevTools v5 - A Proper Refactor

We just merged a significant refactor of Backpack DevTools — the package that lets you visually scaffold migrations, models, relationsh...

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Pedro Martins

Simplified Pricing

We're happy to announce we've finally fixed something that customers have been complaining about for years - our pricing. Don't worry,...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report: May 2026

This month has been mostly about security. I have one takeaway for you - run composer update. So we'll keep it short and sweet: Mainten...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Build a Laravel Custom CRM with Backpack Fast

A lot of Laravel developers get asked for “a simple CRM” right after someone has already tried three wrong options. First, they looked...

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Rares Enescu

Progress Report: April 2026

Another month, another package! That's right! A lot of the things we've been working on for the past few months are finally ready to ta...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Build a Powerful laravel admin panel bootstrap in 2026

You’ve probably been here before. A new client portal, internal tool, partner dashboard, or SaaS back-office lands on your plate, and e...

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Rares Enescu

Top 10 Laravel Admin Generator Tools for 2026

So, you’re spinning up a new Laravel project and hit that familiar point. You need a back-office. An admin panel. A place to manage rec...

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Rares Enescu

New Add-on: ReportOperation - Analytics for Any CrudController

You've built the admin panel. Your team is using it. Data is coming in. And then someone asks: "How many orders did we get last mo...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Code-First Admin Panel Generator: Laravel Devs Guide

Most admin panels start the same way. You get a new Laravel project, wire up auth, model a few tables, and then the grind appears. User...

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Rares Enescu

Admin Panel Package: A Laravel Dev's Guide for 2026

You’re probably in the same spot most Laravel teams hit sooner or later. The product is moving, internal users want better tooling, and...

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Rares Enescu

How to Build a Laravel MVP End to End

You’re probably in one of two situations right now. Either you need to get a product in front of users fast, or you already started bui...

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Rares Enescu

Filament PHP Alternative: Top 10 Admin Panels for 2026

You like Filament. A lot of us do. It’s fast to stand up, the developer experience is pleasant, and for the right Laravel app it feels...

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Rares Enescu

Laravel Backoffice: A Production-Ready Guide with Backpack

You shipped the customer-facing part of the app. Routes are clean, jobs are running, tests are green. Then the backoffice lands on your...

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Rares Enescu

Best Laravel Admin Panel in 2026: Reviews & Comparison

You’ve got a Laravel app. The product works, the models are in place, and now somebody needs an admin panel yesterday. That’s where the...

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Rares Enescu

Build Your Laravel CRUD App Faster with Backpack

You know the drill. A project starts, and before the interesting work begins, somebody needs an admin panel for users, products, orders...

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Rares Enescu

10 Admin Panel Best Practices for Developers in 2026

As developers, we spend a lot of time building and using admin panels. They're the command center of our applications, the place where...

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Rares Enescu

A Decade of Laravel Admin Panels: What Survived and Why

I've been building admin panel software since 2012. For Laravel specifically, since 2014. That's over a decade of watching developers —...

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Cristian Tabacitu

AI's Guide to Build an Admin Panel with Laravel in 2026

Whether you're an AI agent tasked with building an admin panel, or a human who wants AI to build one for them — this is the guide you n...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Top 12 Laravel Nova Alternative Choices for Devs in 2026

Laravel Nova is a powerful and elegant administration panel, but its specific design choices, licensing model, and feature set aren't a...

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Rares Enescu

Progress Report: March 2026

It's been a productive month at Backpack HQ - let's get into it: Maintenance CRUD - 5 updates (we're still at v7.0.32) PRO - 5 updates...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Build a Powerful Laravel Backoffice Faster in 2026

Think of your web application like a restaurant. The frontend is the dining area—what your customers see, interact with, and experience...

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Rares Enescu

New Package: Backpack/Test-Generators

As your project matures, you start writing tests for your application. Hell, you might even do TDD and have it tested as you built it....

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Cristian Tabacitu

Build a Modern Laravel Dashboard From Scratch in 2026

When you need a powerful, scalable admin panel for your Laravel app without starting from a blank file, building a Laravel dashboard is...

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Rares Enescu

Your Ultimate 2026 Guide to Laravel Admin Panels

A Laravel admin panel is the private, back-office interface for your web application. It's the control room where you and your team can...

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Rares Enescu

A Developer's Guide to Admin Panel Templates

So, you keep hearing about admin panel templates, but what are they, really? At its core, an admin panel template is a pre-built front-...

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Rares Enescu

A Developer's Guide to Logging in PHP

If you’ve ever found yourself littering code with var_dump() and die() to hunt down a bug, you’re not alone. But let’s be real—this app...

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Rares Enescu

Build a Laravel Admin Dashboard with Backpack

Let’s be honest—building an admin dashboard from scratch is a classic developer time sink. You spend days, sometimes weeks, wrestling w...

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Rares Enescu

Your Definitive Guide to Building a Great Admin Panel

Alright, let's get straight to it. An admin panel is the private, secure command center you build to manage your application from behin...

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Rares Enescu

A Developer's Guide to the Many to Many Relationship in Laravel

Alright, let's talk about one of the most common patterns you'll run into when building an application: the many-to-many relationship....

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Rares Enescu

A Developer's Guide to the Tinymce Wysiwyg Editor in Laravel

Let's be real—handing your users a plain <textarea> in a modern admin panel is asking for trouble. For us developers, a good What...

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Rares Enescu

A Developer's Guide to Authentication of Users in Laravel

Alright, let's cut through the noise. As developers, we're constantly building things that need to be protected, whether it's a custome...

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Rares Enescu

Build a Custom Laravel Admin Panel That Doesn't Suck

Thinking about building a Laravel admin panel from scratch is a noble idea. I get it. But let's be honest, it almost always spirals int...

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Rares Enescu

What is MVC? The Architectural Pattern Explained for Developers

So, what is MVC, really? It’s an architectural pattern called Model-View-Controller, and it’s a blueprint for splitting an application...

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Rares Enescu

Progress Report: February 2026

This month we don't have much to report. We've dug our heads deep into test generators... and still haven't finished them. But that's f...

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Cristian Tabacitu

10 Native Web Features You Can Use In 2026 (You Probably Don't Know Half of Them)

While we were busy configuring Webpack and debating which JavaScript framework to use this year, browsers shipped a lot of new features...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Do You Still Need a Bundler? A Look at What's Changed in Web Technology

A few years ago, I wrote about the new trend in web development: keeping it simple. Back then, it felt like a counter-culture movement....

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report: January 2026

New year, new you? Not us - we've been doing the same thing we have for the past 10 years - polishing our software, so we all build adm...

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Cristian Tabacitu

You Might Not Need NPM: Simpler Ways to Load Assets

A post of mine on LinkedIn blew up recently. I said: Hot take: NPM has done more harm to web development than good. It normalized trea...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report: December 2025

Hey there - I hope you've had a blast these holidays! It's been a slow month here as well - thankfully the new version being so polishe...

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Cristian Tabacitu

New Add-on: DataForm Modal

It's been a few weeks now since we launched Backpack v7, so I'm happy to draw attention to one aspect of v7 a lot of people might have...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Black Week 2025 - Huge Discounts

We have A LOT to celebrate this week! First of all, we've just launched Backpack v7, which brings features we never thought we'd actual...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Backpack v7 is officially RELEASED

First, thank you for your patience. This release has been a long time coming — we originally planned it for November 2024 🤯 But we did...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report: October 2025

I made it a rule to post these articles every month... but there's not a lot to share this time. So I'll have to tell you a secret 😔 B...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report: September 2025

It's been a week with mixed work here at Backpack HQ. On one hand, we've been hard at work ironing out the last quirks in Backpack v7 -...

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Cristian Tabacitu

New: Auto-Translate for Laravel

This month I built something I’m really excited about: backpack/auto-translate. Its bold promise: make running a multi-language app fee...

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Cristian Tabacitu

New Plan for Agencies: Everything + Support + Training (1990 EUR)

For years, we’ve seen agencies struggle with the same challenges: Every project starts with endless boilerplate. Senior devs each pref...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report: August 2025

It's been a slow month here at Backpack - with August being vacation time in Europe, we've taken advantage and took some leave too. Tha...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report: July 2025

It's been a long month of celebration and bug fixing here at Backpack HQ. Let's get into it: Backpack v7 - Now In Public Beta 🎉 We've...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Laravel Rate Limiting — Explained with Real-Life Examples

Imagine this — your app is running smoothly, then suddenly it gets hit with a wave of requests. Some from real users, others from bots...

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Karan Datwani

HUGE DISCOUNTS - Let's Celebrate Backpack v7 Beta! Hurry Up!

We've got great news for you - whether you're a Backpack veteran or it's your first time creating a timeless admin panel. Starting Tues...

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Cristian Tabacitu

4 Ways To Prevent Race Conditions in Laravel

Imagine two users trying to update the same record at the exact same time. If your app isn’t handling this properly, one update might o...

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Karan Datwani

Progress report: June 2025

We're happy to tell you what we've been cooking for the past 8+ months... is finally getting out of the oven. Our next version has gone...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Backpack v7 Public Beta - Coming Soon!

I'm eager to announce that we've finished most breaking changes that are coming in Backpack v7... which means we will finally be able t...

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Cristian Tabacitu

5 Ways to Improve Laravel CRUD Performance

Laravel simplifies creating CRUD operations. However, without the right optimization, performance issues may occur, slowing the app dow...

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Pankaj Ramesh Vasnani

Laravel Observers - The Cleanest Way to Handle Model Events

As your Laravel app grows, repetitive tasks can clutter your controllers and models. Now imagine this: when a customer places an order—...

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Karan Datwani

Progress Report: May 2025

Hey there, We've been cooking hard this month, but it's all behind closed doors 😔 I'll let you have one peek though. Let's get into it...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Intro to AI: What are LLMs, AI Agents & MCPs?

AI, AI, AI — everyone is talking about it these days! And even though it may be overhyped, there are some excellent ways that you, as a...

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Karan Datwani

How to create custom Laravel packages

What is a custom package? A custom package is a reusable piece of code that can be used across different projects to avoid code duplica...

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Pankaj Ramesh Vasnani

Progress Report: April 2025

Hey there, April has gone by - wow, that was fast. This month, a lot of our energy went into preparing the Backpack v7 release, includi...

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Cristian Tabacitu

How to Build Laravel Forms with Validation in 2025

Form — a small word, but very useful. Whether you’re collecting feedback, taking orders on an e-commerce site, editing blog posts, or a...

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Karan Datwani

Why You Should Link Your CRUDs (And How to Do It with Backpack)

In every admin panel, you’re usually dealing with a bunch of CRUDs — customers, orders, invoices, etc. But when these CRUDs are disconn...

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Karan Datwani

How to Build SaaS Using Backpack for Laravel

In the previous article, I showed you how to build a CRM using Backpack for Laravel. Now, let’s take it a step further and turn it into...

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Karan Datwani

Laravel Not Reading .env? Here’s The Right Way to Manage Your App Settings

If you’ve been working with Laravel, you’ve probably used env() to pull values from your .env file. You’ve also seen config() being use...

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Pankaj Ramesh Vasnani

Progress Report: March 2025

Hey there, March has been a focused month for us. Most of our energy went into preparing Backpack v7 for release, and we’re nearly ther...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Backpack for Laravel Alternatives 2026 - Top Admin Panels and Frameworks

Last updated: November 2026. TL;DR: The main alternatives to Backpack for Laravel in 2026 are Filament (free, built on Livewire and Ta...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Add Engaging Animations To Your Webapp for FREE

Lottie animations have become a popular choice for adding rich, engaging animations to websites and apps. They’re lightweight, scalable...

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Karan Datwani

Building a CRM with Backpack for Laravel – The Fun & Easy Way

So, you want to build a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system? But the idea of manually setting up CRUDs, operations, and all...

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Karan Datwani

Make Your WebApp or Admin Panel Installable as a Mobile App

Ever noticed a little icon or popup on your browser asking you to install the web app you're currently browsing? It’s a cool feature th...

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Karan Datwani

What Can You Do with Laravel Middleware? (More Than You Think!)

Did you ever find yourself writing the same checks in multiple controllers? Like formatting inputs, blocking access, or tracking user a...

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Karan Datwani

Progress Report: February 2025

Wow, another month - February truly is a short one, isn't it?! This month we've still focused on the next version of Backpack... but we...

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Cristian Tabacitu

How to Build a Laravel Dashboard Using Backpack (In No Time)

Every successful app needs a dashboard. It’s where you keep an eye on the important stuff. However, building one from scratch is time-c...

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Karan Datwani

Mastering Laravel: Where to Put Your Custom Code (And Why)

Laravel has plenty of built-in features and conventions to keep your code clean. But let’s be real: sooner or later, you’ll need to wri...

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Karan Datwani

Access CRUD subfields via Javascript

In a previous tutorial, I talked about the CrudField JavaScript Library. I presented an example on how to change one field as the user...

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Karan Datwani

Progress Report - January 2025

First month of 2025 has already come and gone - wow! We're working on a few big things, that haven't seen the light of day yet, so... w...

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Cristian Tabacitu

How To Install MailPit on Laravel Forge

So you have a staging environment set up, and want to catch all emails that go out? You might use MailTrap for that. It's a great hoste...

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Cristian Tabacitu

How to use Backpack Fields on Non-CRUD Laravel Page

Using Backpack admin panel is always fun with its add-ons and features like Backpack Fields and various Operations, saving a lot of tim...

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Karan Datwani

Custom @blade directives for your views.

Blade Directives in Laravel offer a clean way to include content dynamically within your views, which also improves the readability an...

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Karan Datwani

How to setup Nested CRUD

Imagine a blog's admin who could list all posts in the admin panel. What if the admin wants to see a list of articles posted by a user...

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Karan Datwani

Progress Report - December 2024

This was a slower month at Backpack HQ. We had burned out our tires last month with the Black Friday rush and security fixes, so it was...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Easy HTTPS Setup with Sail and FrankenPHP

If you're developing a Laravel application locally using Laravel Sail (Laravel's Docker-based development environment), you might notic...

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Kidd Tang

Backpack vs Filament

Last updated: November 2026, for Backpack 7 and Filament 5. TL;DR: Backpack and Filament are both solid admin panels for Laravel. Pick...

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Cristian Tabacitu

How to compare two CRUD entities.

Let's say I have a lengthy online form related to hiring for a particular position, and I received a good number of applicants. Now, lo...

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Karan Datwani

List and preview data from other sources like APIs.

In a recent article, I showed how to set up an Eloquent model for data sources other than DB. In this article, I'll show how you can li...

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Karan Datwani

Progress Report - November 2024

Another busy month at Backpack HQ. This month was dominated by a security issue, our Black Friday promo and our work on Backpack v7. Le...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Black Week DISCOUNTS - Hurry Up!

Are you on the fence on buying Backpack? Have you wanted to upgrade to a bigger plan... but it was too expensive for you? We've got GRE...

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Cristian Tabacitu

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