This course is for people want to get past all the boring clutter and start building their first web app in Laravel. It will take you through all the main Laravel features, including Blade, Laravel's powerful templating tool; Eloquent, Laravel's database abstraction layer; security features you can use to sanitize, filter, and validate user-provided data; the request object and its role in the application life cycle; and PHPUnit and Laravel Dusk, which you can use to test your PHP code. It will also teach you how to master file system access, sessions, cookies, caching, and much more!

This course is designed to give you, as a PHP developer, the confidence to get ahead with Laravel and write an entire application securely from the start. High-level overviews and concrete examples form part of this course; you'll also master some higher-level features and make them all work together.

All the code and supporting files for this course are available from Github at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Web-Application-Development-with-Laravel

Style and Approach

This course's hands-on approach will allow you to get a clear grasp of each of Laravel's main components. You will also understand how these components work together. Packed full of expert guidance, this course will make you a Laravel expert in no time; it will put you in the driver's seat when it comes to Laravel, with lots of practical examples and clear explanations in order to help you better understand the entire Laravel framework.