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Your guidance will help me build a career out of it. Please guide me so that I’ll be able to call myself a confident laravel developer.
Mar 27, 2024
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Level 3
Help in getting started
Hey fella’s, I’m currently pursuing btech and I’m in my prefinal year and I’m a self learned web developer with php and laravel as my tech stack. I have been working on these two since my 2nd year and still till date I’m not confident enough to be able to call myself a laravel developer. In simple words i choke in a lot of places. I’ve tried all the best ways to do it again and again but still I’m left with zero confidence. With this it makes me feel that am I even good enough to do it or not. Can anyone guide me with my journey so that i would be able to outshine myself.
Level 29
@srajiv9496 Its good that you're still motivated to learn the framework. I would suggest you to watch some more lessons first, everything is well explained. I see that you've only completed 5 lessons on this account.
If you don't have enough knowledge in PHP watch the series PHP For Beginners and Object-Oriented Principles in PHP first, after that you can continue with lessons on the Laravel framework.
If you still get stuck or don't understand something you can always come back and ask it on this forum. There are a lot of developers here who are willing to help.
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@gych Thank you for responding @gych but i did watch lectures on php and oops using php from youtube and have built 2 small projects to get a strong hold over php and then jumped onto laravel but I’m not able to understand how to carry on because I’m surrounded by people who are always developing websites using MERN and when I see their projects I just kinda feel left behind that I’m not building such projects. So please provide me a way to be able to build the same using laravel and what else to be learnt to build such projects.
Level 29
@srajiv9496 Ok good that you already have some experience with PHP. You could first start with Laravel and Blade by creating a simple application using Laravel with Blade templates. I recommend using the Breeze starter kit to quickly set up authentication out of the box. It also comes with Tailwindcss which is worth to learn and will speed up your development process.
If you aim to develop projects similar to those of your friends that use SPAs for the frontend with Laravel, you have two main options:
- Laravel with Inertia and Vue or React
Using Laravel with Inertia will connect your Vue or React frontend to your Laravel backend without the need of using Laravel as API. This is easier and I personally prefer Vue for the frontend, but if you already know React it's also a great choice. You can again use the Breeze starter kit here for authentication.
- Laravel API with standalone Vue or React SPA
This approach is a bit more advanced for beginners. You use Laravel as an API, making API calls to fetch and send data between the frontend (Vue or React SPA) and the Laravel backend.
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@gych Thank you for your help. I’ll love to connect with you on LinkedIn and explore more about the world of php&laravel.
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Level 29
@srajiv9496 No problem, send me your LinkedIn profile link and I'll send you a connection invite :)
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@gych it’s the same user name btw 😂
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