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+