A Collection of Laravel Tutorials

This book contains all tutorials that have been published on the Laravelista website in the period from >= 2016. to < 2018.

This book is quite old, so you may find some of the information outdated.This book was published with two goals: first, to provide existing subscribers access to content they had purchased online before the website is retired; and second, to offer the same material to others in a fixed-price format. A companion book contains all archived posts from the Laravelista blog.

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Published: 02.05.2018.

Code samples

All tutorials in this book come with a working code repository ~~on GitHub~~ (included in a zip file).

Learning tips

Throughout the whole book you will find tips to expand your knowledge on a topic.

Step by step

Each chapter comes with a commit that shows the changes that have been made in it.

Jump in anywhere

No need to read the whole book. Find a tutorial that interests you and start reading.

One programmer guides another to build applications.

This book documents my two-year journey teaching others to build websites and web applications with Laravel. It's the perfect starting point for diving into topics that interest you.

API Development

Building and documenting an API with Laravel.

JWT Authentication

Laravel on Windows

Homestead or Laragon, pick one and start building.

Codeception testing

Testing with Codeception on Laravel and Lumen.

Forms and Validation

Learn how to create and validate forms. Includes tutorials on validating form arrays and different ways of validating data.

Compiling Frontend Assets

Learn how to use Laravel Mix to compile frontend assets. Also, learn how to use Laravel Mix or Laravel Elixir without Laravel.

Mulitilingual Web Applications

Learn how to create multilingual web application with Laravel. From simple text localization to database model translations.

Deployment with Envoy

Learn everything about Laravel Envoy with practical examples. There is also a tutorial on deploying a Laravel app from GitHub to Heroku.

Database and Eloquent ORM

Learn all about pagination presenters and how to paginate a collection of different models. Also, learn different ways of deleting records.

Server Administration

For the brave, there are a couple of tutorials on installing Nginx, PHP7, obtaining certificates with Let's encrypt and bash scripting.

Reader Testimonials

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