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I am a big fan of laracasts and i started with this course a while ago - https://laracasts.com/series/lets-build-a-forum-with-laravel , and now I can see that it is archived and somehow outdated already, so I was wondering if its really useless of me to continue with it + if there's a planning to update this specific course with the latest laravel practices?
thanks.
@davidleads I think it may still be worth finishing if you did start it. The version of Laravel it’s written on isn‘t that much different to the current version (9). There might be some syntax changes here and there, but you’ll discover them as you write code and get errors that will hint as to what’s changed, been renamed, etc.
@martinbean Thanks!
I was thinking that since its one of the most profound courses here on Laracasts - maybe there's some future plan to upload an updated version.
IMHO I agree with @martinbean. It is a good skill to refactor and upgrade projects to later versions of Laravel. Having something that you are familiar with is a really good place to start plus this is building a forum with TDD. So you are in really good place to refactor anythings that you need to. One thing that has changed in Laravel >=8 is the way factories work (although there is a package to let you do factories the old way) so you might want to look at that so your testing all works.
@richardhulbert Cool, thanks. Actually, my main concern was exactly about the TDD part, since the whole factories' mechanism has changed - i guess it'll attract a lot of debugging ricochets. I'll give it a try.
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