Adding a blog area to update users on new features
Laravel is not a CMS, but still, it is really nice to create a simple, markdown-based blog to quickly post updates about latest features and news for the comic site. In this section, I will show how we can use Slugs from the earlier recipe called Adding clean URLs for the users profile page in this chapter, and a markdown library, so we can make a blog area that is paginated and ready to show off our latest info written in markdown and converted into HTML.
Getting ready
A fresh install of Laravel is fine. I will continue on with the comic book site I have been making all along.
How to do it…
- Use a scaffolding library that I talked about in Chapter 5, Working with Data:
>php artisan make:scaffold Blog ...
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