Screencasts for the Modern Developer

Intermediate Difficulty

What's New in Vue 3

Vue 3 is nearly upon us! If you'd like to get a head start, join me as we review everything you need to know. We'll discuss the new composition API, portals, Vite, and so much more!

10 Lessons

1h 10m

Intermediate Difficulty

CSS Quirks and Pitfalls

While it's fun to see a car designed entirely with CSS from a single div, the day-to-day reality for a typical CSS designer is far less glamorous. Often, you'll lose hours upon hours due to some confusing CSS quirk that seemingly makes no sense. In this series, we'll dig our heals into the dirt and, together, decipher a variety of CSS oddities.

2 Lessons

17m

Intermediate Difficulty

Alpine.js Essentials

Alpine.js is a relatively new JavaScript framework for defining behavior directly in your markup. While similar to frameworks like Angular and Vue, you may find that Alpine is a bit more light-weight and portable. In this series, one step at a time, I'll get you up and running as quickly as possible.

8 Lessons

1h 23m

Intermediate Difficulty

Blade Component Cookbook

As part of the Laravel 7 release, we gained access to supercharged Blade components. What's exciting about this is the fact that it can fundamentally change how you go about constructing the view layer of your applications. In this series, one component per episode, I'll show you a wide range of practical examples that you can freely use in your own projects.

11 Lessons

2h 3m

Intermediate Difficulty

Build a Video Game Aggregator

In this series, we'll build a video game app that pulls data from the IGDB API and displays game information such as popular titles, coming soon, videos, and screenshots. We'll explore a variety of front-end features with Laravel and other technologies, including the HTTP client, Tailwind CSS, Livewire and Alpine.js.

14 Lessons

3h 19m

Intermediate Difficulty

Build a Stock Tracker App

In this series, we'll build a command line application to track the availability of in-demand products across any number of retailers. Perhaps you want to be notified the moment a Nintendo Switch becomes available for purchase? Let's do it!

14 Lessons

2h 50m

Intermediate Difficulty

What's New in PHP 7.4

PHP 7.4 was released on November 28th, 2019 and includes a variety of improvements and new features, including arrow functions, typed properties, weak references, and more. In this brief series, we'll review one feature per episode to get you up to speed as quickly as possible.

3 Lessons

11m

Intermediate Difficulty

Building AlpineJS

Ever wonder how a front-end framework works under the hood? In this series, I (the creator of AlpineJS) will walk you through what it takes to actually build one from scratch. By the end of the series, you will learn what’s involved in creating a modern, reactive, front-end framework by actually building one yourself. It’s easier than you might think!

6 Lessons

54m

Techniques

Intermediate Difficulty

Three-Minute Tips

I get it. We don't always have twenty minutes to watch a new lesson. But maybe you have three? If so, this series is for you. Each episode provides one isolated tip or technique that you might consider for your own projects.

1 Lessons

Intermediate Difficulty

What's New in Laravel 7

Laravel advances to version 7 on March 3rd, 2020 with updates to Blade components, custom casting, fluent string operations, a friendly HTTP client, and much more. In this series, one episode at a time, we'll review everything you need to know.

6 Lessons

57m

Intermediate Difficulty

JavaScript Techniques For Server-Side Applications

Many Laravel apps don’t warrant the complexity of a full front-end framework like Vue or React. In this series, we’ll walk through a handful of simple ways to add dynamic functionality to your apps. By combining various strategies, you can keep your simple Laravel stack, but still build interfaces that feel fast, fresh, and dynamic.

3 Lessons

48m

Testing

Intermediate Difficulty

Code Katas with PHPUnit

If martial artists use kata as a method for exercise and practice, what might be the equivalent for coders like us? Coding katas are short, repeatable programming challenges which are meant to exercise everything from your focus, to your workflow. In this series, one kata per episode, we'll work through a wide variety of challenges to build up your TDD process.

9 Lessons

2h 34m

Intermediate Difficulty

Object-Oriented Principles in PHP

The typical beginner, whether they realize it or not, first learns procedural programming. But, before too long, they level up. Suddenly, an entirely different paradigm is introduced: object-oriented programming. Little do they know that they'll spend years researching and learning exactly what it means to work with objects and messages. In this series, you'll be introduced to the core principles of object-oriented programming in PHP. We'll begin with the basic constructs and work our way up.

9 Lessons

1h 33m

Techniques

Intermediate Difficulty

Guest Spotlight

The programming world is far too big for one person. With that in mind, for this series, I've invited a number of special guests to teach you what they know best.

13 Lessons

3h 15m

Intermediate Difficulty

Laravel From Scratch

In this series, step by step, I'll show you how to build web applications with Laravel. We'll start with the basics and incrementally dig deeper and deeper, as we review real-life examples. Once complete, you should have all the tools you need. Let's get to work!This series will use version 6 of the framework.

68 Lessons

8h 59m