If you have background in programming, the best place to learn is actually the official documentation (hint: read it like a book from page 1 til the end).
They give introductions peppered with many examples about how Laravel handles common programming challenges and these examples show why Laravel is much better compared to many other frameworks.
I thought Laravel Cloud was interesting. It was a project from Taylor Otwell that he never finished (I believe due to work on Vapor). He open-sourced it, but not long after removed the repo. However, it was forked a lot of times so it's still around.