Learn Just Enough Laravel to Get Started as a Web Developer

Explore installed Laravel files and folders, including app, config, database, resources, routes, and learn how models, controllers, views, migrations, seeds, factories, vendor folder, and artisan integrate in an MVC app.

Learn how migrations act as blueprints to create database tables in Laravel, enabling automatic setup via Artisan in the terminal and avoiding duplicate effort.

Increase VS Code productivity for Laravel by installing extensions for code completion, Blade syntax highlighting, Laravel snippets, and Blade formatter, then use keyboard shortcuts to speed up tasks.

Create and connect models with your Laravel app using terminal commands, relying on automatic table association by model and table names, then interact with them through routing and views.

Explore how Laravel scaffolding via the Laravel UI command generates login and register pages, Blade templates, and shared layouts, using extends, section, and yield to inject dynamic content.

Learn how to scaffold a notes interface in Laravel by copying a template, editing the Blade, and adding title and description with text and textarea for crud operations.

Implement a Laravel CRUD navigation to the notes index page, build an index view, and display notes in a table with title, created, and actions for view, update, and delete.

Fix the validation workflow by enabling error visibility and displaying messages. Apply required and eight-character size rules to the title and description, and review errors.

Learn to restrict notes per user in Laravel by filtering with a where clause in index, passing results to the view, and adding a middleware to enforce access to nodes.

Learn to seed and populate the database using factories and seeders, create multiple user records, and prep for many-to-many relationships between users and nodes.