Explore: Laravel

In this series, we'll build a video game app that pulls data from the IGDB API and displays game information such as popular titles, coming soon, videos, and screenshots. We'll explore a variety of front-end features with Laravel and other technologies, including the HTTP client, Tailwind CSS, Livewire and Alpine.js.

As part of the Laravel 7 release, we gained access to supercharged Blade components. What's exciting about this is the fact that it can fundamentally change how you go about constructing the view layer of your applications. In this series, one component per episode, I'll show you a wide range of practical examples that you can freely use in your own projects.

In this series, we'll build a command line application to track the availability of in-demand products across any number of retailers. Perhaps you want to be notified the moment a Nintendo Switch becomes available for purchase? Let's do it!

In this series, step by step, I'll show you how to build web applications with Laravel. We'll start with the basics and incrementally dig deeper and deeper, as we review real-life examples. Once complete, you should have all the tools you need. Let's get to work!This series will use version 6 of the framework.

Laravel advances to version 7 on March 3rd, 2020 with updates to Blade components, custom casting, fluent string operations, a friendly HTTP client, and much more. In this series, one episode at a time, we'll review everything you need to know.

In this series, for each episode, I'll answer one Laravel-related question that has cropped up in the Laracasts community. Who knows, maybe your question will be the next one I answer in video form!

Laravel 6 is here! Along with a fresh website design comes a variety of new features and improvements, including lazy collections, Laravel Vapor compatibility, job middleware, and so much more. In this series, one topic per episode, we'll get you up to speed in no time.

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.

It's time to take the techniques we learned in Laravel From Scratch, and put them to good use building your first real-world application. Together, we'll leverage TDD to create Birdboard: a minimal Basecamp-like project management app. This series will give us a wide range of opportunities to pull up our sleeves and test our Laravel chops. As always, we start from scratch: laravel new birdboard.

Laravel 5.8, which released on February 26th, 2019, ships with a new Eloquent relationship, automatic policy discovery, PHPUnit 8 support, and so much more. In this series, one-by-one, we'll dig into the most important updates you need to know about.

Eloquent make the process of interacting with your database tables as natural and intuitive as possible. It's vital that you recognize and understand six key relationship types. Let's review them all - one episode per relationship.

Laravel 5.7 is now available! Along with it comes, not just the reveal of Laravel Nova, but also email verification functionality, dump-server integration, better console testing, and so much more.

Laravel ships with a small handful of custom front-end presets, but if you'd like to tailor the scaffolding specifically to your needs and preferences, no problem! It's easy. If you have a half-hour to spare, in this series I'll show you exactly how to tweak the configuration.

Laravel 5.6 is upon us! While it's true that this release isn't quite as flashy, there are still a number of incredibly useful new additions and updates. Let's review them together.

A forum is a deceptively complex thing. Sure, it's made up of threads and replies, but what else might exist as part of a forum? What about profiles, or thread subscriptions, or filtering, or real-time notifications? As it turns out, a forum is the perfect project to stretch your programming muscles. In this series, we'll work together to build one with tests from A to Z.

Here we go again! Currently scheduled for an August release date, we're on the verge of Laravel 5.5. With that in mind, let's get a head start on the new features and additions to the framework. As always, there's quite a few!

It's that time of year again! Laravel is on the cusp of graduating to version 5.4. Along with it comes a variety of excellent new optimizations and features. Markdown mail, higher order collection messages, Dusk, real-time facades... yes, please! In this series, I'll get you up to speed on what's new in Laravel 5.4 as quickly as possible.

It's about that time again! The release of Laravel 5.3 is imminent. That means, it's finally time to dig in and see what's new. And, well, there's a lot! From directory changes, to notifications, to passports, to everything in between! This series will be refreshed every work day, so don't fall behind!

In this mini-series, we'll, from scratch, allow users to register, submit community articles and tutorials, and then vote on their favorites. Exactly like what we have here at Laracasts! While there are a number of moving parts, it should all make perfect sense, once we're done.

It's about that time again. Laravel 5.2 is on its way (possibly in January, 2016), with a variety of useful new additions. Let's get ahead of the game, and begin reviewing what's new.

When we want to broadcast events on our server to the client, how exactly do we do that? Well, there's a number of ways to tackle it, including using a dedicated service like Pusher. However, in this mini-series, we'll wire everything up on our own, while leveraging Node, Redis, and Socket.io. Sound fun?

For any Laravel user, a solid understanding of Eloquent is crucial. In this series, we'll review a number of key techniques for your toolbelt.

Laravel 5.1 includes a variety of welcomed new features. Everything from broadcasting events, to massively improved testing facilities, to LTS support. As always, Laravel is setting the curve with this new release. Let's breeze through the new features that you'll be enjoying.

Made your way through Laravel 5 Fundamentals yet? Nice job! It's time to dig a bit deeper. In this series, not only will we review higher level features, such as using the Scheduler component and dispatching commands and events, but we'll also often peak behind the scenes to figure out how each piece fits together.

Sure, you've learned the essentials of using Eloquent in your applications, but do you really understand what's going on under the hood? Well, that's specifically what we're interested in for this series. How do all the bits and pieces fit together?