Laravel and view caching in development — can't see changes right away

Question

Some friends and I decided to start working on a project and we came across Laravel and thought it might be a good tool. We started using it locally to develop out some of

Answer 1

With newer versions of PHP, opcache doesn't work. This is what I use (in app/filters.php):

App::before(function($request)
{
    // Clear view cache in sandbox (only) with every request
    if (App::environment() == 'sandbox') {
        $cachedViewsDirectory=app('path.storage').'/views/';
        $files = glob($cachedViewsDirectory.'*');
        foreach($files as $file) {
            if(is_file($file)) {
                @unlink($file);
            }
        }
    }
});