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Building Laracasts

While many courses at Laracasts focus on the workflow of building something entirely from scratch, this one is a bit different. Come along as I work on the Laracasts codebase, itself. Each episode is unique. One might cover a new Vue component we need for the UI. Another episode may require that we TDD a new feature entirely. So pull up a chair and let's get to work.

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Episodes
6
Run Time
1h 35m
Difficulty
Intermediate
Last Updated
May 26, 2020
Version
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  1. The Series Page (1)

    1. Series Chapters

      It's a bit overdue, but I need to add chapter headings to each series here at Laracasts. Come along as I use TDD to drive out this small change to the codebase. We might say a video belongs to a series, but also to a chapter within that series. Together, let's figure out how.
  2. Widgets (3)

    1. Widget Workshop

      Have you ever had a controller action that, over time, grows and grows as you declare and fetch all necessary data for each new section of the page? Very quickly, things can become messy. Lately, I've been thinking about an alternative, widget-based approach for structuring portions of my views. Come along as I build this useful new Widget class from scratch.

    3. Testing and Deploying Laravel Packages

      If you can't prove - through automated tests - that your package works correctly, how do you expect users to trust you? In this episode, we'll write a series of tests to confirm that our widget functionality works as expected. Once complete, we'll deploy the code to GitHub. At that point, the only remaining step is to submit to Packagist.org.
  3. Content Classification (1)

    1. Organize Data By Taxonomy

      In this episode, we'll discuss how to classify content according to any number of taxonomies. To illustrate this, we'll build three models: Series, Taxonomy, and Topic. This should be all we need.
  4. Tricky CSS Effects (1)

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