Jack reads the news

Jack reads the laravel related news this week.
Eric is off this week.

All the news from issue 105 of the Laravel-News.com newsletter.

• Laravel is turning 5


• Original "Introducing Laravel" post from Taylor


• New Spark Tutorial added this week.


• Several new articles on dotdev.co on using git for Branching, merging and rebasing (great articles)


• Several articles on using view Composers


• Contract testing


• Multiple Migrations Paths coming in Laravel 5.3


• Cascading softdeletes with Laravel 5 (package)


• Scaffolding with custom commands by Amo Chohan


• Laravel API generator


• Laravel Docusign


• Request rate limiter middleware for Laravel 5.2+