Let’s Learn Laravel: A Guided Path For Beginners

Learn the prevalent and in-demand Laravel framework. There are countless Laravel courses in the world; here’s what makes this one unique:

• No assumptions that you already understand the PHP language.
• No assumptions that you already understand the “Model View Controller” pattern.
• No assumptions that you already understand how to set up a dev environment on your computer.
• No assumptions that you already understand how to deploy a website.
• No assumptions that you already understand the Linux command line.

Laravel is an amazing framework, but because it is so feature-complete I’ve noticed that a lot of guides and tutorials get overly ambitious and introduce 10 or 20 new concepts in a single lesson which is frustrating when you’re a beginner. You’re trying to understand why you’re doing what you’re doing. I’ve also noticed a lot of tutorials assume you’ve already used lots of other web application frameworks before Laravel, so they don’t explain any of the organizational or conceptual pieces of the puzzle.

See Also: Laravel Tutorial From Beginner To Expert Level

This course is different because I assume that Laravel is the first web application framework you’ve ever attempted to learn, and so we move at a pace where you can absorb the big-picture concepts that exist in all frameworks; not just Laravel.

Here’s what we’ll learn in the course:

• The PHP language itself
• Getting our computer ready for Laravel
• User registration, login, log out
• Profile Photo Upload (server-side resize & storage)
• The Blade Template Engine
• Composer the PHP Dependency Manager
• Form Validation
• Gates, Policies, Permissions (e.g. You can only edit your posts and not other people’s posts)
• Relationships; letting one user follow another user
• How to use Models to query for the exact data you want (e.g. homepage feed of posts from the users you follow)
• How to send automated emails from your app
• Add API URLs that allow users to log in and create & delete posts from outside the context of a web browser
• Use Docker to practice deploying to a Linux server
• Configure a real public Ubuntu VPS to host our Laravel app with a real domain
• Setup our VPS as a Git server that you can push to for effortless future updates to your live site

Who this course is for?