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Laravel Foundations🔺

Beginner→Intermediate

Laravel 13

Master Laravel from the ground up. Learn PHP's most elegant web framework, understand its architecture, configuration, and build complete web applications following Laravel conventions and best practices.

5

Sections

18

Lessons

21

Challenges

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What is Laravel?

Setting Up Your Laravel Environment

Creating Your First Laravel Project

The Artisan Command Line Interface

Laravel Architecture Pattern(Sign in required)

Beginner+10 Mana

Matching Artisan Commands(Sign in required)

Beginner+10 Mana

Artisan Make Controller(Sign in required)

Beginner+10 Mana

Environment File Purpose(Sign in required)

Intermediate+20 Mana

Understanding Laravel Configuration

Environment Variables and .env Files

Service Providers and Bootstrapping

Reading Config with Dot Notation(Sign in required)

Beginner+10 Mana

Debug Mode in Production(Sign in required)

Beginner+10 Mana

Service Provider Responsibilities(Sign in required)

Intermediate+20 Mana

Environment Variables Best Practice(Sign in required)

Intermediate+20 Mana

The Laravel Request Lifecycle

Working with HTTP Requests

Creating HTTP Responses

Getting Request Input(Sign in required)

Beginner+10 Mana

Flashing Data on a Redirect(Sign in required)

Beginner+10 Mana

has() vs filled()(Sign in required)

Intermediate+20 Mana

Return Types That Become JSON(Sign in required)

Intermediate+20 Mana

Planning Your Application

Setting Up the Database

Creating Eloquent Models

Creating Routes and Controllers

Building the Views

Resource Controller Methods(Sign in required)

Beginner+10 Mana

Repopulating Form Input(Sign in required)

Beginner+10 Mana

Foreign Key Constraints(Sign in required)

Intermediate+20 Mana

What $this->authorize() Does(Sign in required)

Intermediate+20 Mana

Eloquent Scope(Sign in required)

Intermediate+20 Mana

Building a CRUD Feature in Order(Sign in required)

Intermediate+20 Mana

Introduction to Laravel Testing

Feature Tests vs Unit Tests

HTTP and Database Assertions

Generating a Feature Test(Sign in required)

Beginner+10 Mana

Matching Test Assertions to Their Purpose(Sign in required)

Intermediate+20 Mana

Keeping Tests Isolated(Sign in required)

Intermediate+20 Mana

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