Laracasts

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There's no shortage of content at Laracasts. Check back most work-days for new lessons on your favorite web technologies and techniques.

Techniques

Advanced Difficulty

If you are lucky enough to build a popular community, then your reward is a never-ending onslaught of spam. It's a simple reality; there's no getting around it. In this series, I'll show you a variety of useful techniques for preventing spam at every turn. We'll review everything from basic keyword matching, to honeypots, to reCAPTCHA.

6 Lessons

49m

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Techniques

Intermediate Difficulty

Playing With PHP

This series is all about the little projects you build once you're off the clock. One topic per section, we'll toy with the fringes of PHP to, for example, blink our lights when a PHPUnit test fails. Why bother? Because it's fun! Come along and join me.

1 Lessons

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Tooling

Intermediate Difficulty

Learn Laravel Scout

Laravel Scout is a powerful, full-text search package for your Eloquent models. Follow the basic setup instructions, and within minutes you'll be triggering lightning-fast search queries with Algolia. In this short series, come a long as I demonstrate everything you need to know.

3 Lessons

25m

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Languages

Intermediate Difficulty

PHP 8 Crash Course

It's hard to believe, but PHP 8 is right around the corner. As part of this new release, not only will you benefit from performance improvements - thanks to the new JIT compiler - but you'll also enjoy useful new operators and types, attributes, match expressions, and so much more. If you're intrigued, hop in and we'll review everything you need to know.

8 Lessons

31m

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Tooling

Intermediate Difficulty

Learn Laravel Horizon

Laravel Horizon provides a beautiful dashboard and code-driven configuration for Redis queues in Laravel. In this short series, I'll get you up and running in no time.

3 Lessons

38m

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Frameworks

Intermediate Difficulty

Learn Telescope

Laravel Telescope is an elegant debug assistant for Laravel. It provides insight on things like requests, exceptions, database queries, and so much more. In this short mini-series, I'll tell you everything you need to know.

2 Lessons

25m

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Techniques

Intermediate Difficulty

Long-form Refactoring Workshops

This series is exclusively focused on the art of refactoring code. Make a small change, run the tests, and then make another small change. Each episode provides a variety of long-form examples and pitfalls using real life code. Please note that this series is not chronological. Each episode is unique and may be viewed in any order.

2 Lessons

1h 34m

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Techniques

Intermediate Difficulty

Multitenancy in Practice

In this series, I'll show you how to build a single-database, multi-tenant application in Laravel. Together, we'll construct our application in such a way as to ensure that data from one tenant never leaks into the results for another tenant.

10 Lessons

2h 25m

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Frameworks

Intermediate Difficulty

Learn Socialite

Socialite provides you with a simple and convenient way to authenticate with OAuth providers like Facebook, Twitter, and GitHub. In this mini-series, I'll show you exactly how to use it in your own projects.

2 Lessons

24m

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Techniques

Advanced Difficulty

Open-Closed Workshop

In this workshop, we'll focus exclusively on the open-closed principle (the O in SOLID). Using real-life code, line by line, we'll refactor a confusing class into something far more manageable and extendable. Once finished, we'll have gained the luxury of introducing new functionality, not by modifying existing code, but by instead writing a new class.

5 Lessons

48m

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Frameworks

Intermediate Difficulty

Livewire Basics

Livewire has quickly become one of the most popular package for building Laravel applications. It allows you to create dynamic components within PHP, which often results in allowing you to skip the JavaScript layer entirely. In this series, we’ll go over the basics of Livewire and why/when you might reach for it. We’ll then build and test several practical Livewire components.

14 Lessons

3h 2m

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Frameworks

Beginner Difficulty

What's New in Laravel 8

Laravel 8 is here! This release includes brand new application scaffolding, class-based model factories, migration squashing, time traveling, and so much more. Join me as, one topic per episode, we review everything you need to know!

11 Lessons

48m

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Frameworks

Intermediate Difficulty

Rebuild GitHub with Tailwind

One of the best ways to improve your CSS is by rebuilding existing UIs. You’ll notice common patterns that occur and the best way to handle them. In this first entry, we'll focus on the GitHub UI.View the source code for this episode on GitHub.

5 Lessons

1h 26m

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Tooling

Intermediate Difficulty

Static Site Generators

A static site is often the ideal choice for certain types of projects. Common use cases might be portfolios, blogs, or documentation sites. They are easy to host, simple to implement, and incredibly fast. In this series, we’ll take a look at a handful of the most popular static site generators.

7 Lessons

2h 42m

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Testing

Intermediate Difficulty

Cypress and Laravel Integration

Cypress is a fantastic end-to-end testing framework. In this series, we'll learn, not just the ins and outs of Cypress, but also how it can be leveraged within a Laravel application to allow for everything from logging in, to seeding a database, to swapping environments.

7 Lessons

1h 28m

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Frameworks

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!

14 Lessons

1h 42m

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Explore Laracasts

If you already know what you're looking for, Laracasts is divided into various topics ranging from frameworks to packages to tools.

Laravel

51 Series • 676 Videos

Vue

5 Series • 90 Videos

Sublime Text

2 Series • 22 Videos

Symfony

1 Series • 4 Videos

PHP

25 Series • 327 Videos

CSS

6 Series • 46 Videos

JavaScript

14 Series • 253 Videos

Visual Studio Code

1 Series • 18 Videos

AlpineJS

4 Series • 48 Videos

Nova

1 Series • 15 Videos

PHPUnit

7 Series • 202 Videos

Envoyer

1 Series • 10 Videos

Git

2 Series • 35 Videos

PHPStorm

1 Series • 27 Videos

Vim

1 Series • 22 Videos

React

1 Series • 10 Videos

Deployment

3 Series • 39 Videos

Workshops

17 Series • 293 Videos

Clean Code

11 Series • 75 Videos

OOP

5 Series • 95 Videos

MySQL

1 Series • 17 Videos

Redis

2 Series • 10 Videos

Laravel Forge

2 Series • 29 Videos

Webpack

2 Series • 25 Videos

Laravel Mix

1 Series • 11 Videos

Tailwind

2 Series • 26 Videos

Laravel Livewire

3 Series • 45 Videos

Cypress

1 Series • 7 Videos

SQL

1 Series • 17 Videos

Authentication

1 Series • 2 Videos

Meet the team.

Jeffrey Way

Owner of Laracasts

I built Laracasts all the way back in 2013, and have been running it ever since. Even to this day, I still love sharing everything I know about programming. I currently live in Orlando, Florida with my wife and kids.

Tudor Adrian

Design at Laracasts

I just love doing what I do. There’s no other way to put it. Being able to create and express my passion and at the same time help others grow is one of the most unique feelings I’ve ever felt.

Andre Madarang

Instructor at Laracasts

Greetings! I'm Andre, a full-stack web developer and Laracasts instructor. My other hobbies include playing guitar, videography and gaming.

Screencasts for the modern.developer;

Laravel

Vue

Sublime Text

Symfony

PHP

CSS

JavaScript

Visual Studio Code

AlpineJS

Nova

PHPUnit

Envoyer

Git

PHPStorm

Vim

React

Deployment

Workshops

Clean Code

OOP

MySQL

Redis

Laravel Forge

Webpack

Laravel Mix

Tailwind

Laravel Livewire

Cypress

SQL

Authentication

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