Laravel: Up & Running: Edition 3

Matt Stauffer, a leading teacher and developer in the Laravel community, delivers a high-level overview and concrete examples to help experienced PHP web developers get started with this framework right away. This updated edition covers the entirely new auth and frontend tooling and other first-party tools introduced since the second edition.

Dive into features, including:

• Blade, Laravel's powerful custom templating tool
• Tools for gathering, validating, normalizing, and filtering user-provided data
• The Eloquent ORM for working with application databases
• The Illuminate request object and its role in the application lifecycle
• PHPUnit, Mockery, and Dusk for testing your PHP code
• Tools for writing JSON and RESTful APIs
• Interfaces for filesystem access, sessions, cookies, caches, and search
• Tools for implementing queues, jobs, events, and WebSocket event publishing
• Specialty packages including Scout, Passport, Cashier, and more