What makes Laravel different from other PHP frameworks? Speed and simplicity. Laravel's fast-paced application development, expansive ecosystem, and toolset allow you to quickly build websites and apps with clean, readable code.

Matt Stauffer, renowned educator and lead developer, offers both a general overview of the framework and specific examples of working with him. The book will help experienced PHP developers quickly get into a new topic in order to implement a project in Laravel. The book also covers Laravel Dusk and Horizon topics, as well as information about community resources and other packages that are not included in the Laravel core.

In this book you will find:

• Tools for collecting, validating, normalizing, filtering user data

• Blade, Laravel's powerful custom templating engine

• Expressive Eloquent ORM model for working with application databases

• Role information Illuminate Request object in the application lifecycle

• PHPUnit, Mockery and Dusk for testing your PHP code

• Tools for writing JSON and RESTful API

• Interfaces for accessing the file system, sessions, cookies, caches and lookup

• Implementing queues, jobs, events and WebSocket event publishing