Keep Laravel Up To Date

# Add Laravel's official repo as a remote.
git remote add -f laravel https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git

# View the files that are different between your project branch and the latest stable Laravel release within the release
# branch you're using for your project. The first column in the resulting list is a letter representing the change status of
# the file. A = Add, D = Delete, M = Modify, etc. Run git help diff and search for --diff-filter to see all statuses.
git diff --name-status <local branch> laravel/5.3

# Check out the files from the laravel remote that have been added/modified/renamed, etc.
git checkout laravel/5.3 <file path>

# Delete any files that have been removed from the laravel remote.
git rm <file path>

# Update Composer packages
composer update

# Update Node packages
npm update

# Commit all of the changes
git add .
git commit -m 'Update Laravel to 5.3.31'