Master Laravel 2025: From Zero to Pro with Hands-On Projects

Learn to set up a mac development environment for Laravel by installing Homebrew, PHP, MySQL, and Composer, verify versions, and create a new Laravel project.

Install and configure Valet on macOS, add Composer and Homebrew, then park your local projects in a workspace, verify with a test domain, and access them in the browser.

Install Docker Desktop and Laravel Sail to run Laravel in Docker. Create a new Laravel project with curl, add services, then start Sail and use Sail Artisan commands and composer.

Install essential tools to support Laravel development on your local machine, including a modern web browser, Visual Studio Code, terminal access, database tools, and Node.js with npm, and Yarn.

Build a Bitly-style URL shortener from scratch, validate real URLs with form validation, store original URLs and shortcodes in a database, handle Unicode route parameters, and implement HTTP redirects.

Set up a brand-new Laravel project, confirm SQLite as the database, and run the server and migrations to ensure a ready, zero-config local development environment for building the URL shortener.

Create a Laravel model for the links table and secure it with mass assignment safeguards. Use a fillable whitelist for original_url and shortcode so data maps safely.

Build a post route and a controller in Laravel to handle url shortening, and implement server-side validation to ensure the original URL is present and valid.

Generate a cryptographically secure six-character shortcode for a validated URL using Laravel's Str helper, and save the mapping to the links table via the link model, noting potential collisions.

Save the validated original URL and shortcode to the database using eloquent, then redirect back to the home page and render a flashed success message in the welcome view.

Develop and test a short URL route in Laravel that captures a shortcode, queries the links table, and redirects to the original URL, returning 404 when not found.

Define web routes in web.php, return views, create posts index blade with a list, add a dynamic posts/{post} route, pass the post to the show view, and display the id.

Install tailwind css in a Laravel project and configure tailwind and postcss. Apply tailwind directives to app.css, customize the font, enable the typography plugin, and run npm run dev.

Learn to build a practical Laravel workflow for multiple image uploads, including validation, file storage, image resizing, and displaying uploaded images with a minimal user interface.

Validate uploaded images in a Laravel form request by requiring an images array, validating each file as an image under two megabytes, and displaying errors for invalid input.

Store file metadata in the database, including original name, mime type, size, and path, while keeping the file on disk and using a media model with fillable fields.

Create an accessor to generate a public original URL for uploaded images using the storage URL helper, and display them in an index view via a route and blade template.

Resize images before saving with Intervention Image, read the uploaded file, scale to a max width of 320 pixels preserving aspect ratio, encode, and store on the public disk.

Learn to set up Tailwind CSS in a Laravel project, configure and import it, build with npm run dev, and create a reusable application layout using Laravel layouts and slots.

Explore the Laravel project structure, including app (MVC), config, database, public, resources, routes, storage, vendor, dot env and example, and Artisan commands like serve.

Constrain route parameters in Laravel using the where method with regex. Ensure id is numeric and name is alphabetic, and use where alpha, where number, or alphanumeric for concise patterns.

Learn to name routes with the name method, generate links via the route helper, and prevent 404 errors when changing paths, ensuring consistent navigation.

Define a fallback route with the route facade to handle requests that don't match any route, triggering a 404 page and returning a callback response.

Learn to display data using blade templates in Laravel, echoing variables with safe escaping, choose between blade and plain php views, and embed code or comments in the view.

Create a contacts index view using blade in a Laravel app. Learn blade compilation, view caching, and artisan commands to pre-compile or clear the view cache for deployment performance.

Practice building the contacts create view in Laravel by following the exercise. Create a new create blade PHP file and link it to the all contacts page.

Pass data to a Laravel view using an associative array or compact, access it by key in the view, and display contacts with foreach, linking to their detail by id.

Practice blade template inheritance and bootstrap styling to create dynamic titles and contact views, extending the main layout, and link create and index routes in Laravel.

Style the empty view by replacing a paragraph with a table cell using a tr and td, merging six columns with colspan, and displaying a bootstrap alert message.