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Journey Through Laracasts

A Journey is a recommended guide through Laracasts for a given skill. Each section provides new tips and techniques that build upon what you've already learned. That said, feel free to jump around as you see fit.
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JavaScript Journey

JavaScript: the language we love to hate. Luckily, though, the dark days of the early 2000s are long gone. Thanks to frameworks like Vue, and continued work on ECMAScript, the truth is that JavaScript isn't half-bad to use these days. It's almost - dare I say it - fun!

Begin Journey

Section 1 Learn Vue

Frameworks Learn Vue 2: Step By Step
Intermediate Difficulty

Learn Vue 2: Step By Step

Vue is easily one of the most exciting additions to the front-end world in many years. With its intuitive API, and the fact that it can be applied to any type of application, it's no wonder why folks have gravitated to it as much as they have. If you'd like to jump on board, let me show you, step by step, exactly what you need to know. It's the best way to learn Vue!

49 Lessons
7h 43m
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Section 2 Vue and Laravel

Tooling Learn Laravel Mix
Intermediate Difficulty

Learn Laravel Mix

Webpack is the most powerful and flexible asset compilation tool available today. With that power, however, comes a certain level of complexity. That's where Laravel Mix steps in. Intended for the 80% usecase, Mix wraps around webpack to make most commonly desired build tasks a cinch to activate. In this series, as the maintainer of Laravel Mix, I'll teach you everything you need to know - from the basics, to advanced configuration.

11 Lessons
1h 25m
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Frameworks Laravel, Vue and SPAs
Intermediate Difficulty

Laravel, Vue and SPAs

In this series, come along as I build an "assets" website for Laracasts. Using Laravel as a backend, step-by-step, we'll pull in Vue and Vue Router to construct a practical and real-life single-page application.

10 Lessons
1h 24m
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Section 3 Testing Vue

Testing Testing Vue
Advanced Difficulty

Testing Vue

How in the world are we supposed to unit test Vue components? Is it even possible? Why, yes. Yes it is! I'll show you the full process, step by step. Not only will you learn the necessary tooling, but we'll also review the ins and outs of testing your client-side code. Have you ever wanted to use TDD for your Vue components? I'll show you how.

10 Lessons
2h 10m
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Section 4 Vue Workflow

Frameworks Practical Vue Components
Intermediate Difficulty

Practical Vue Components

As you continue building new projects, you'll find yourself reaching for the same crop of components over and over again. Most websites require modals, dropdowns, tooltips, and more. While you can certainly use a UI framework, let's instead learn how to construct these components (and more) from scratch.

7 Lessons
1h 56m
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