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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 Sprechen. I’m used to building out different custom pieces of functionality that extend Backpac...

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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 about it - when working as a freelancer for a client, or inside multi-disciplinary teams… a re...

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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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