Laravel 11 : Beginner's Guide to Building a Book Review App

Create a book model with migrations, factory, and seeders in a Laravel 11 project, setting up title, summary, image URL, and user relationships with cascade delete.

List the current authenticated user's boxes with an index view and auth middleware route, paginate results, and show each box’s book image, title, and human-friendly created date.

Learn to create a new book entry in Laravel 11 by building a create book form, validating inputs, uploading images, and storing the record for a book review app.

Refactor image uploading by removing the image url attribute, enabling public storage with a symlink, and test the full image url via the model accessor and blade.

Implement the edit view for a book in a Laravel 11 app by wiring routes and controller, pre-filling title, summary, and image, and enforcing owner-only access with a 403 guard.

Implement update book logic in the controller with authorization, binding the book model, and validating title, summary, and image. Handle image uploads, save changes, and delete old images from storage.

Implement a delete image feature in a Laravel 11 book review app using axios to remove image endpoint and set the book image URL to null, with alpine.js controlling rendering.

Implement delete book with a confirmation and ensure the destroy method removes the book image from storage. Use axios delete with the book url and reload on 204 status.

Master Laravel 11 authorization by using a book policy to control update and delete actions, validating the current authenticated user against the book owner instead of inline controller checks.

Create a functional timeline in Laravel 11 for a book review app, displaying books uploaded by users with details, like interactions, and pagination.

Implement a show button to navigate from the timeline to book details in Laravel 11, passing the book to the show view via route binding.

Create a like model and migration, establish belongs to and has many relationships with books and users, enforce a unique (book_id, user_id) constraint, and migrate to test the feature.

Implement a toggle like feature for books by checking authentication, creating or removing likes with first or create, and updating the UI via Alpine and Axios.

Learn how to implement a real likes count in a Laravel 11 book review app, including authentication checks, toggling likes with Alpine, and formatting a pluralized likes count.

Implement a Laravel 11 search feature by adding a term input on welcome page, using Laravel Search package and a searchable trait on the book model to query by title.

Add a new is_public boolean column to the box table with default false, update the book model casts, and implement a checkbox to manage visibility in create and update flows.

Learn to list only public books by adding a public scope to the book model, conditionally display images if available, and enforce 404 for non-public books.

Add a search box in the user dashboard and wire it to the book controller’s index via a get request, filtering by the authenticated user’s id and the search term.

Learn to deploy a Laravel 11 book review app to Cloudways, configure PHP 8.2, deploy via Git, run Composer and Breeze, and optimize with Nginx and Redis.