As Boris was writing his excellent Laravel 4 tutorials here on Codeforest, I often asked him about Laravel 4 release date. Soon, he said, watch the web.
And the day has come, Laravel 4 is released officially with all the goodies, new website and other great stuff and all that on Taylor’s birthday. Coincidence? I think not.
Two hours ago Laravel Twitter account said:
I'm so glad to announce the official release of Laravel 4! New and improved site and documentation. Get it! http://t.co/jRc64bb6qG
— Laravel (@laravelphp) May 28, 2013
What to say? Few hours before the release Jeffrey Way of Nettuts released his book on Laravel testing and Dale Reese, a member of core Laravel team released his book for begginers called Laravel: Code Bright – Web application development for the Laravel framework version 4 for beginners.
They updated their website, the documentation, API documentation and it is all available on Laravel official web as well as a 5 minute quickstart.
I am really more excited than should be, but all of the above is proof of an awesome community and obviously an awesome PHP framework.
As Laravel 4 is built so you can use it for small RESTful APIs or huge enterprise level applications, I am eager to see how developers will adapt to the new version.
And don’t think it’s over:
Want to keep living on the bleeding edge? Just update your laravel/framework dependency to 4.1.x. Ride it until 4.1 in November!
— Laravel (@laravelphp) May 28, 2013
So, what are you waiting for, reading this article, go grab some tutorials and build something great with Laravel 4. And then post a link to it below in comments section.