Laravel: The Big Picture
Laravel is a full-stack web framework for modern PHP based web apps. This course will teach you what Laravel is, where it's being used, why you would use it, give an overview of it's components and architecture, and guide you in future learning.
What you'll learn
PHP is a language that has been around for a long time used to power most of the web site and web apps on the internet today. In order to be more efficient teams, utilize Laravel a PHP based web app framework to get organized and accelerate the build of their web apps. In this course, Laravel: The Big Picture, you’ll learn about the Laravel full-stack framework. First, you’ll explore Laravel’s core components such as: routing, middleware, controllers, requests, responses, views, blade templates, and more. Next, you’ll discover how to install Laravel, configure it, how it handles security, works with databases, about its APIs and more. Finally, you’ll learn what it is like to develop, build, and deploy an app with Laravel. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Laravel needed to decide if it is the right PHP web framework for you and where to go next on your journey with Laravel.
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About the author
Steve Buchanan is a Principal Program Manager with a leading global tech giant focused on improving the cloud. He is a Pluralsight author, the author of eight technical books, Onalytica's Who’s Who in Cloud?-top 50, and a former 10-time Microsoft MVP. He has presented at tech events, including, DevOps Days, Open Source North, Midwest Management Summit (MMS), Microsoft Ignite, BITCon, Experts Live Europe, OSCON, Inside Azure management, and user groups. He has been a guest on over a dozen podca... more