Part 1: Why Laravel?
Chapter 1. Why Laravel?
- Why Use a Framework?
- “I’ll Just Build It Myself”
- Consistency and Flexibility
- A Short History of Web and PHP Frameworks
- Ruby on Rails
- The Influx of PHP Frameworks
- The Good and the Bad of CodeIgniter
- Laravel 1, 2, and 3
- Laravel 4
- Laravel 5
- Laravel 6
- Laravel Versions in the New SemVer World (6+)
- Laravel 11
- What’s So Special About Laravel?
- The Philosophy of Laravel
- How Laravel Achieves Developer Happiness
- The Laravel Community
- How It Works
- Why Laravel?
Part 2: Setting Up a Laravel Development Environment
Chapter 2. Setting Up a Laravel Development Environment
- System Requirements
- Composer
- Local Development Environments
- Artisan Serve
- Laravel Sail
- Laravel Valet
- Laravel Herd
- Laravel Homestead
- Creating a New Laravel Project
- Installing Laravel with Composer’s create-project Feature
- Installing Laravel with the Laravel Installer Tool
- Installing Laravel with Sail
- Laravel’s Directory Structure
- The Folders
- The Loose Files
- Configuration
- The .env File
- Up and Running
- Testing
- TL;DR
Part 3: Routing and Controllers
Chapter 3. Routing and Controllers
- A Quick Introduction to MVC, the HTTP Verbs, and REST
- What Is MVC?
- The HTTP Verbs
- What Is REST?
