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New in v6: How to create your own custom theme to Backpack v6

Hey devs, are you ready to create your own custom theme to Backpack v6? It's easier than you might think! Let's walk through the steps of building a Backpack theme using a template you got from GetBootstrap, WrapBootstrap, or Them...

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Karan Datwani

Give a discount, get a discount! Introducing Backpack Rewards.

We have great news if you have friends... who are still not using Backpack. You can now refer people to Backpack and get rewarded for it! Our current rewards campaign makes it a win-win: The discounts are HUGE! If you refer someo...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Spread the word and we'll share the profit. Become an Affiliate!

Do you have an audience that is interested in Laravel and/or admin panels? Then we're a great match, let's do business together! We'll...

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Cristian Tabacitu

New FREE Add-on - Activity Log

As we build features for ourselves and our clients, we try to release them to you too. Either as features in our existing products, or...

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Cristian Tabacitu

New in v6: How to change themes in Backpack v6

Hey there! In Backpack v6, we introduced themes so that you can add a bit of personality to your admin panels! Changing themes is a bre...

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Karan Datwani

Progress Report - August 2023

This was a very productive month for us. We've not only fixed bugs in our newest software, but we've also streamlined our support syste...

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Cristian Tabacitu

New basset() helper (yes, helper)

As part of Backpack v6, we've invented a new way of loading assets in Laravel. And we've done that as an open-source package - one that...

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Cristian Tabacitu

New in v6: How to create a Quick Button in BackpackForLaravel

Hey there, fellow developers! In this article, we're going to explore the awesome new feature in version 6 of Backpack for Laravel - th...

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Karan Datwani

New in v6: How to build Custom Form Operation in Backpack v6

Hey devs, check out the amazing new feature in Backpack v6 - building custom forms with ease! In the past, creating a custom operation...

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Karan Datwani

New in v6: How to use Uploaders - Making Upload Fields Easier Than Ever!

Hey there, my friends! I've got some exciting news about Backpack v6 that will make your life as a developer even easier. Introducing a...

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Karan Datwani

New in v6: How to use Dropzone for Easy File Uploads!

Hey there! I've got some fantastic news to share with you about Backpack v6! We've introduced an amazing new feature called the "D...

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Karan Datwani

Progress Report - July 2023

This was a crazy month for us. After having launched Backpack v6 at the beginning of the month (😱), we had a bit of calm... before the...

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Cristian Tabacitu

30% Discount - Backpack v6 Launch Party

It's been a few weeks already since Backpack v6 has been not only launched, but the default version everybody uses. In the past 3 weeks...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Excellent New Theme - Tabler

We're happy to announce our Tabler theme is finally out of beta 🎉 We've been working with Tabler for a long time, and it is spectacula...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - June 2023

This month our entire team has been working on Backpack v6. And for the first time ever... it felt like we were moving at incredible sp...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Backpack v6 launches this weekend - with a huge discount!

We have EXCELLENT news. Thanks to an all-team-effort for the past month, we are very happy with the state of Backpack v6 - our latest a...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - May 2023

This was a stressful month for the Backpack team. We've been polishing the last big things we had to merge into v6, finding and fixing...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Why build an admin panel for your website or web app?

When it comes to developing a website or an app, there's one crucial aspect that shouldn't be overlooked: the admin panel. An admin pa...

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Karan Datwani

How to set up Laravel Valet (Nginx) + MySQL

A Few months ago, Tabacitu assigned me a task to install & try Spatie's Browsershot on the Laravel Valet environment. It was the fi...

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Karan Datwani

Progress Report - April 2023

This was another good month for the Backpack team. We’ve been steadily working towards a stable v6, that you’ll be able to try pretty s...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - March 2023

We don't mean to brag... but March has been very good to us 😀 Work on Backpack v6 has been going very very well, so we have a lot to u...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - Feb 2023

We've been firing on all cylinders in February. We're working on two HUGE features that we will be launching next month in Backpack v5....

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Cristian Tabacitu

Why use an admin panel framework instead of creating your own?

An admin panel framework is a software framework that provides a set of tools, components, and functionalities for building an administ...

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Karan Datwani

How to add custom sections to CRUD tables and forms

In a recent project, I needed to customize my List and Create operations, to basically add content before or after the existing views....

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Karan Datwani

What is CRUD?

CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update, and Delete, which are the four basic functions used to manage data in a database and are essenti...

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Karan Datwani

Progress Report - Jan 2023

We've started this new year in full force. Not only have we been working on the next iteration of Backpack (which you'll have access to...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Giveaway - win up to $2500 of premium Laravel resources

Did you know Backpack is partly "Made in Portugal"? Yes, that's were two of our team members live - Pedro and Antonio. So we...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - Dec 2022

It's been a crazy month here at Backpack. We've been working in more areas than ever (v5, v6, marketing, design, legal) but I won't bor...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - Nov 2022

It's been a busy month here at Backpack. We've started working on Backpack v6, organized a Black Friday AND managed to start and finish...

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Cristian Tabacitu

100 Huge Discounts for Black Week

We’re celebrating Black Week, Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year with a HUGE discount: The first 100 people that use the BLACKFRID...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - Sep-Oct 2022

Since our last progress report, our team has put the final touches on quite a few difficult features. These have been multi-month effor...

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Cristian Tabacitu

How to create a custom operation that uses Backpack fields

In previous articles, I've shown you how to: create an operation (EmailOperation) with a custom HTML form; use that operation on your...

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Karan Datwani

Progress Report - August 2022

Since our last progress report, on Aug 19th, our focus has been on improving overall Developer Experience and fixing papercuts. We've b...

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Cristian Tabacitu

How to create a Backpack add-on with a custom Operation

Say you’ve created a custom operation, and want to share it with other developers around the world. How do you do that? Well, it’s pret...

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Karan Datwani

Progress Report - July 2022

Our last progress report was on July 19th, and our team has done A LOT since then. Maintenance 9 new patch releases for Backpack CRUD...

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Cristian Tabacitu

How to use a custom operation inside PermissionManager

So you want to add a new operation to the UserCrudController, the one that our PermissionManager addon provides? Here’s how you can do...

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Karan Datwani

How to create a custom operation with a form

I needed a form that sends an email to each user, directly from the admin panel. I already had a Users CRUD, so here's how I added a fo...

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Karan Datwani

Progress Report - June 2022

This will be a short one - since not everything we've been working on this month has also been launched. And we don't want to bother yo...

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Cristian Tabacitu

New Addon - Editable Columns

Some of our admins have been asking to do quick edits, right from the table view. We've always whipped up a custom solution for them ri...

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Cristian Tabacitu

New Feature - CrudField Javascript Library

If you haven't read our May 2022 Progress Report... we have BIG news for you. In fact it's so big, that it made us bump the version fro...

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Cristian Tabacitu

We recommend you fix this vulnerability

We regularly conduct private security audits of our software. Unlike most times, in March 2022 we’ve discovered a security issue that m...

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Cristian Tabacitu

We present you the new face of Backpack

👏Clap your hands if you’ve seen our new Backpack logo 👏 We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. We do have big plans for this y...

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Alexandra Popescu

Progress Report - May 2022

Quite a few new features to announce here. I'm so happy we've started writing these monthly reports for you. They've really helped us f...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Looking for new team members: part-time or full-time

We have big BIG plans this year. In order to get those plans done… we need more people to join our team. Why? Because this year, we ha...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - April 2022

Good news! Now that Backpack v5 is launched, polished and stable, we can dedicate more time to finer details. To gradually improve ever...

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Cristian Tabacitu

How to create a Print operation

Give your admin the power to print a custom view. No new window, no page jump - just print using AJAX. I've been practicing Backpack fo...

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Karan Datwani

Backpack v5 is here! And it's open-core.

For the past 8 months we've been working on a new version and now... we've finally launched it. We call it 🥁🥁🥁... Backpack v5. But f...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Black Friday - Up To 50% Discount

If you're been waiting for a discount to purchase Backpack - this is your moment 😀 We've decided to join the Laravel trend again this...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Four New Pricing Options

We're pleased to announce that we have added four new options to purchase Backpack, to fix some common worries and misconceptions when...

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Cristian Tabacitu

How To Automatically Apply the Laravel-PHP Coding Style (For Free)

If you work inside a team, do yourself a favor - decide on a coding style and get the entire team to use it. Why Stick To a Standard Co...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Guest Post: How I built a Kanban board in my admin panel with Backpack Operations

Lewis Raggett here. I create useful web-based software and applications for a variety of different clients with the rest of my team at...

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Lewis Raggett

New: Prototype Before Coding, Using our Backpack Figma Template

We’ve saved you hours, days or weeks when coding admin panels. Now let’s save you time when planning and designing admin panels. Think...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Now in Private Beta - Backpack DevTools

You know how every time you add a new entity to your project, you probably create a Migration, Model, CRUD, and maybe even a Seeder and...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Celebrating 1.000.000 downloads

Today, it hit us. We found out that... we've recently surpassed 1 million unique downloads... and we were... blown away. We wanted to...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Install All Backpack 1st-party Addons In One Line

New project that uses Backpack. What do you do? Do you install all 1st party addons PermissionManager, Settings, NewsCRUD, LogManager,...

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Cristian Tabacitu

New and Improved Way to Create Backpack Add-Ons

Have you ever copy-pasted custom code, from one admin panel to another? It didn't feel right, did it? You knew there's a better way to...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Security Issue If You Use SQL Server (May Affect <0.02% Backpack Projects)

This is the first security post we have to write, in the 5 years since we've been running Backpack. We're trying to be as direct and tr...

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Cristian Tabacitu

New Addon - JSON Field Type

If your admins have been looking for a quick way to edit JSONs in their admin panel, we have excellent news. Regular contributor Ziming...

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Cristian Tabacitu

How to Fix Error 525 - SSL Handshake failed with LetsEncrypt and Laravel Forge

If you're anything like us, you use Laravel Forge to provision your servers and LetsEncrypt SSL certificates. After all, it's the defau...

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Cristian Tabacitu

November 2020 Newsletter - Progress Report

Hey there, It’s been more than 6 months since our last newsletter. As promised, we try not to bother you unless we have a lot to say. A...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Once in a while, re-publish the CSS and JS assets

You should consider replacing Backpack's CSS and JS dependencies every few months. How? This article answers exactly that. But first of...

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Cristian Tabacitu

How to follow a Github project (without getting A BUNCH of notifications)

I'm sure there are projects you'd like to be up-to-date with. Nowadays, there's a really easy way to do that, even if the devs don't ha...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Your Invoices May Include a Value Added Tax

Starting with November 1st 2020, we are bound by local & EU law to add 19% Value Added Tax to our invoices, in a few select cases....

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Cristian Tabacitu

New payment methods - credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, iDEAL, bank transfers

We're happy to announce that starting today, we've added more ways for you to pay for your Backpack for Laravel license. Thanks to a ne...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Backpack 4.1 is now in public beta

Good news everyone! The new free upgrade to Backpack 4.0 is right around the corner. And I have to say... it is so so cool. I've never...

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Cristian Tabacitu

How to Submit a Non-trivial PR to a Laravel Package

If you want to contribute to a Laravel package with a PR, sometimes the Github interface is enough. You change one or two files there a...

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Cristian Tabacitu

How to Add Impersonate Functionality to Your Backpack v4 Admin Panel

Sometimes it's useful for the admin to see everything from the user's perspective. To see exactly what he sees. With an admin panel lik...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Laravel 5.8 is out, and Backpack 3.6 provides support for it

Laravel 5.8 has been launched on Feb 26th 2019. It provides a few new features, but what we find most important is the upgrade to Carbo...

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Cristian Tabacitu

September 2018 Newsletter

3 months ago you told us what your biggest wishes are for Backpack improvements. I’m proud to say in August we've finished 2 of your to...

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Cristian Tabacitu

July 2018 Newsletter Is Out (Issue #19)

We have this habit of sending an email every month to our users, detailing what's happened in Backpack in the past month. It keep us ac...

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Cristian Tabacitu

We're giving away a free Laracon US 2018 ticket

If you’ve been dying to go to Laracon US 2018 and don’t have a ticket yet, well... it has been sold out for a while now. But we have go...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Github probots to the rescue!!

Starting today, we're using a bunch of Github Probots, to help with issue & PR management. Here's a list of all the the features we...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Getting Started Email Series

If you haven't had time to go through all Backpack features yet, we've just launched something you might like: a free 5-day email cours...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Backpack\CRUD 3.3 is launched

After a lot of work, Backpack\CRUD has finally reached the 3.3 milestone. There have been A LOT of changes, but we've managed to keep i...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Nested resources in Backpack CRUD

Sometimes you'll have one resource that depends on another one. For example, you might have: a Post model; a User model; The admins c...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Moving from Donationware to Trustware

After a lot of consideration, I’ve decided that instead of asking for donations, we should charge a small fee for commercial use. This...

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Cristian Tabacitu

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