I love Laracasts and but I'm finding it frustrating how dated the courses become as Laravel versions change. For instance I just spent 6 hours completing episode 1 of Building a forum in Laravel. It was interesting researching how to use Laravel 8 to complete episode 1 but there are 101 episodes left and I'm dreading how long it will take me to finish the course, Laravel 9 will probably be out before I finish!
Would it be possible at least for the more popular courses to have text based updates in the "about this episode" section with instructions on how to complete the episode for the latest version of Laravel?
Not putting in place some sort of a work around just seems like a waste of great content. I really want the functionality of a forum and project management, on a project I'm working on, but both those courses are dated now and very time consuming to follow.
I know for experienced professionals this is probably a non-issue but it would be great if you could help out the well meaning hobbyists with some kind of a workaround.
The approach that Laracasts release the lessons are different, it release episode by episode not like others, course by course, some of the series may take months to complete the longest took years...
i understand what you feel, it's exactly what i experienced and the worst part is you learning some new things and wish to apply it but you may stuck half way if you rely on the lessons as the the following episodes release date is always unknown and slow as they only release lesson during weekdays.... anyhow, we have to used to it, this is how the way Laracasts works, Laracasts just want to keep it in small team to maintain the affordable subscription fee for everyone to learn.
And one of the reason is Laravel version release too fast and close... so it's unlikely to keep the update for every single episode as Jeffrey may working on few series at once (some even he forgotten to follow up)...
but what you learned are the skills, techniques and the concepts, overall, most of the time it's applicable across all version unless it had marked as archive... so what you need to do is learn how to use the version as the course conduct in order for you to continue practicing, then you can try to apply it to the new version with little efforts of fine tuning, it should works....
OK, I get that they can't update all the lessons but even if there was a section at the top of each episode discussion where members could post screenshots of their code for that episode, that cooresponds to the latest version of laravel that would help a lot. I see people sometimes post a link to github with the course completed in the latest version of laravel but I just want help getting through a particular episode while still having the learning of doing most of the course myself.
People often post snippets of their code in response to questions in the discussion but they are generally incomplete and only addressing the specific question so you've to dig through all of them and often don't find what you are looking for. If there was a place to pin the code for each episode in the latest version of Laravel I bet members would do that and even if there were some episodes without it, learners like me would get a lot further a lot faster.
I'd be grateful if you can you advise how I learn to use the version of the course? I've Homestead set up, can I tell it which versions of Laravel, tailwind etc. to use?
