An Introduction Whether you’re an experienced PHP developer, building apps from scratch, or your an absolute beginner and never heard of Laravel — this series is for you.
Laravel is what’s known as a web application framework. In other words, it does the heavy lifting for a web application so you don’t have to build it yourself. You can focus more time on prototyping or building your application. There is a wealth of resources and documentation around Laravel, which is absolutely huge when you’re starting out with any framework or language....
An Introduction In this part of Laravel Nuts and Bolts, I will be explaining the architecture that Laravel applications are built on and the pros and cons of using it.
Application Architectures An application architecture is a architectural pattern that determines the structure of how a software application is built. It is a system for organizing an application, specifically in regards to it’s code.
In layman’s terms, you could kind of think of yourself making sugar cookies....
An Introduction At this point, you should have a starter application generated. If not, please revisit part one where I cover how to setup a Laravel project. I would recommend at least skimming this part of the guide. There is some helpful background surrounding a Laravel project’s directory structure that is important to understand.
Artisan You will hear me a lot referring to Artisan. Artisan is the command-line interface bundled with Laravel....
An Introduction In this part of Laravel Nuts and Bolts, we will be writing the code of our Laravel application. What will be making? A sticky note application. An application like this can be useful in keeping track of tasks throughout your day, for example.
If you haven’t created a Laravel project yet for this series, please head over to the previous part, where I provide an overview of a Laravel application....
An Introduction In Conclusion
An Introduction Up until this point in Laravel Nuts and Bolts, we have been focusing on the back-end of our application. In this tutorial, I will be covering how to make our application look better. You may have noticed that it looks quite bland and boring up until this point.
I wanted to split the back-end portion of this series from the front-end. Reason being, is so those who just want to learn how to program using Laravel can do so unencumbered by anything related to the front-end....