Materialize on laravel 5.5.50, php 7.4.14. Outdated?

Can I easily modernize the application?

If you have followed the coding structure according to Laravel Docs then you can simply follow the upgrade guides from each version to next. E.g. going from 5.5 guide to 5.6, then 5.6 to 5.7 and so on.

Few months back I gave a similar answer on stackoverflow Upgrading Laravel 5.0 to the latest version (7.x). This should give you a good head start.

Do I need to upgrade?

Not mandatory but highly recommended to do so.

Please read the Laravel Support Policy. In the beginning of this week Laravel 7 has reached end of life. Things are moving fast and in good direction.

I feel if I do not upgrade then I am limiting myself from learning new features.

There should also be a javascript file if you want to be able to use the interactivity. Is that in the project at all?

Javascript files are present:

/public/css/materialize-css/js/materialize.js /public/css/materialize-css/js/materialize.min.js

I broke the app:

error: In PackageManifest.php line 122: Undefined index: name

Trying to go from 5.8 to 6 I figure out that Materialize is no longer supported. I decided to delete it and rebuild later with Bootstrap.

I removed the following references ( maybe I should have done this in another way..? Sorry, I'm noob..)

"skydiver/laravel-materialize-css": "dev-master"` from the require-dev section in composer.json

Also deleted the materialize entries from webpack.mix.js

Finally I removed: {!! MaterializeCSS::include_full() !!} from the layout.blade.php

Now when I try to run artisan serve to investigate the damage I get the following error:

In PackageManifest.php line 122:

Undefined index: name What should I do now?