Taylor Otwell - Laravel 5.3 Overview

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Released in a week or two. Code released soon
Routes now have web, api
Webpack replaces browserify in elixer build
make::auth now uses Vue
Don't need to inherit from Controller for controllers
Queue workers can have time out set
Mail has new syntactic sugar with mail classes. No more ugly closures! Easy queuing
Notifications
- via - how do we send the notification?
  - Returns driver array, can inspect notifiable to determine types
  - Can have states
  - Queueable
Packages can register their own migrations without having to export them into yours

Scout

Full text searching, drivers update search products. (Algolia)

Auth Driver: Laravel Passport

OAuth 2 server - API authentication