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Batteries-included PHP framework for web apps and APIs

19 lessons · 4 hours · 4 levels · covers Laravel 12

Laravel is the most popular PHP web framework, with an expressive routing layer, the Eloquent ORM, Blade templates, queues, events and first-class testing. It favours convention and developer experience, and its ecosystem (Sanctum, Horizon, Octane, Reverb, Forge, Cloud) covers most of what a product team needs. Learning it is the fastest way to build and ship production PHP applications.

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1. EssentialsRead and write simple code, do the everyday basics6 lessons · 1 hour in total
2. PracticalUse it productively at work, with the usual idioms12 lessons · 3 hours in total
3. AdvancedThe less common features, performance and trade-offs16 lessons · 4 hours in total
4. ExpertInternals and the edge cases experts know19 lessons · 4 hours in total

The Laravel tree

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All 19 lessons, in order

Routing, controllers and views

  1. Project setup and structure · Essentials · 10 min

    Create a Laravel 12 project, run it locally and learn what lives in each top-level directory.

  2. Routing · Essentials · 12 min

    Map URLs to code with Route::get and friends, route parameters, named routes and resource routes.

  3. Controllers and requests · Essentials · 12 min

    Move route logic into controller classes, read input from the Request object and return views, redirects or JSON.

  4. Blade templates and components · Essentials · 12 min

    Render HTML with Blade: escaped echo, control directives, components with slots, and forms with @csrf.

Database and Eloquent

  1. Migrations and schema · Essentials · 12 min

    Create and change database tables with migrations, foreign keys and indexes, and run or roll them back with Artisan.

  2. Eloquent models and queries · Essentials · 15 min

    Define Eloquent models, query them fluently, and create, update and delete records with mass-assignment protection.

  3. Relationships and eager loading · Practical · 15 min

    Define hasMany, belongsTo and belongsToMany relationships, and avoid N+1 queries with eager loading.

  4. Large datasets and query performance · Advanced · 14 min

    Process big tables with chunkById, lazy and cursor, inspect generated SQL, and keep queries and memory under control.

Building the app

  1. Validation and form requests · Practical · 14 min

    Validate input with $request->validate and Form Request classes, and display errors back to users or API clients.

  2. Middleware · Practical · 12 min

    Filter and modify requests with middleware, register it in bootstrap/app.php, and apply it to routes and groups.

  3. Authentication and authorization · Practical · 16 min

    Log users in with Laravel's auth system or a starter kit, protect routes, and authorize actions with gates and policies.

  4. Service container and providers · Practical · 15 min

    Let the service container inject dependencies, bind interfaces to implementations and configure services in providers.

  5. JSON APIs with resources and Sanctum · Practical · 15 min

    Build JSON APIs with API routes, Eloquent API resources, pagination and Sanctum token authentication.

Queues, events and testing

  1. Queues and jobs · Advanced · 15 min

    Push slow work into queued jobs, run workers, and handle retries, failures, batching and transactions.

  2. Events, listeners and observers · Advanced · 12 min

    Decouple side effects with events and listeners, queue listeners, and react to model changes with observers.

  3. Testing Laravel apps · Advanced · 16 min

    Write feature tests with HTTP helpers, factories, RefreshDatabase, actingAs and fakes for queues, mail and events.

Internals and production

  1. The request lifecycle · Expert · 15 min

    Follow a request from public/index.php through application bootstrapping, providers, the middleware pipeline and the router.

  2. Facades and framework internals · Expert · 14 min

    See how facades resolve services from the container, how to fake and swap them, and how macros extend core classes.

  3. Production, caching and Octane · Expert · 16 min

    Deploy Laravel safely: optimize caches, run workers and the scheduler, and understand Octane's long-lived-process pitfalls.