Laravel Mastery Roadmap

[Manvendra2000]

Laravel Mastery Roadmap

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Laravel Mastery Roadmap

Introduction to Laravel

• What is Laravel?
• History of Laravel
• Features of Laravel
• How Laravel fits into the PHP ecosystem

Setting Up Laravel

• System Requirements
• Installing Laravel via Composer
• Configuring .env file
• Running Laravel development server
• Using Laravel Valet / Homestead / Sail
• Laravel project structure

Routing

• Basic routing
• Route groups
• Route parameters
  • Required parameters
  • Optional parameters
• Named routes
• Route model binding
• Route caching
• Redirect routes

Controllers

• Creating controllers
• Resource controllers
• Single action controllers
• Using dependency injection in controllers
• Applying middleware in controllers
• Invokable controllers
• Controller methods

Middleware

• What is middleware?
• Using built-in middleware
  • auth
  • csrf
  • throttle
• Creating custom middleware
• Assigning middleware to routes
• Global middleware vs. route-specific middleware

Blade Templating Engine

• What is Blade?
• Blade syntax and directives
• Template inheritance
• Layouts and sections
• Blade components and slots
• Blade loops and conditions
• Form and CSRF tokens
• Displaying data and escaping output

Database and Eloquent ORM

• Introduction to Eloquent
• Database configuration
• Migrations
  • Creating and running migrations
  • Modifying tables
  • Rolling back migrations
• Eloquent models
  • Creating models
  • Retrieving data
  • Inserting, updating, deleting records
• Eloquent relationships
  • One-to-one
  • One-to-many
  • Many-to-many
  • Has-many-through
• Eloquent collections
• Accessors and mutators
• Query scopes

Validation

• Basic validation
• Validation rules
• Custom error messages
• Validating request data
• Form request validation
• Conditional validation
• Custom validation rules

Authentication and Authorization

• Introduction to authentication
• Setting up authentication
• Laravel Breeze and Jetstream
• Guarding routes
• Password hashing
• Role-based access control (RBAC)
• Policies
• Gates
• Email verification
• Password resets

API Development

• RESTful APIs in Laravel
• Creating API routes
• Resource controllers for APIs
• API resources and collections
• Pagination for APIs
• Token-based authentication with Laravel Sanctum
• OAuth2 authentication with Laravel Passport
• API rate limiting

Session and Cookies

• Introduction to session management
• Configuring session drivers
• Storing and retrieving session data
• Flash data
• Cookies in Laravel
• CSRF protection and tokens

File Storage

• Introduction to Laravel file system
• Configuring file systems
  • Local file storage
  • Cloud storage (AWS S3, DigitalOcean)
• File uploads
• File downloads
• Managing files (move, copy, delete)
• File visibility and permissions

Artisan Console

• Introduction to Artisan
• Common Artisan commands
• Creating custom commands
• Scheduling tasks with Artisan
• Using queues in Laravel
• Running queue workers

Testing in Laravel

• Introduction to testing in Laravel
• PHPUnit setup
• Writing feature tests
• Writing unit tests
• Mocking and faking
• Testing routes and controllers
• Testing databases with SQLite
• Testing file uploads and downloads
• Browser testing with Laravel Dusk

Events and Listeners

• Introduction to events in Laravel
• Creating events and listeners
• Dispatching events
• Event broadcasting
• Broadcasting with Pusher or Laravel Echo
• Queued event listeners

Task Scheduling and Queues

• Introduction to task scheduling
• Creating scheduled tasks with schedule()
• Setting up cron jobs
• Introduction to queues in Laravel
• Queue drivers (database, Redis, SQS)
• Dispatching jobs to queues
• Running queue workers

Caching

• Introduction to caching in Laravel
• Configuring cache drivers
• Caching routes and queries
• Storing and retrieving cached data
• Clearing cache
• Cache tagging and locking

Notifications

• Introduction to notifications
• Sending notifications via email, SMS, or Slack
• Configuring mail drivers (SMTP, Mailgun, etc.)
• Creating custom notification channels
• Notification queues

Real-Time Laravel

• Introduction to real-time features
• Broadcasting events with Laravel Echo
• Setting up WebSockets
• Real-time notifications
• Real-time updates with Vue.js

Security Best Practices

• Securing routes with middleware
• Protecting against SQL injection
• CSRF protection
• XSS protection
• Password hashing with Bcrypt
• Protecting API endpoints

Deployment

• Deploying Laravel apps
• Using Laravel Forge for server management
• Optimizing for production
  • Config caching
  • Route caching
  • Optimizing autoloaders
• Monitoring Laravel applications
• Laravel Envoyer for zero-downtime deployment

Advanced Laravel Topics

• Service providers and container bindings
• Service container and dependency injection
• Facades in Laravel
• Building packages for Laravel
• Advanced query building
• Debugging with Laravel Telescope

Laravel Ecosystem

• Laravel Mix for asset compilation
• Laravel Nova for admin panels
• Laravel Vapor for serverless deployment
• Laravel Horizon for queue management

[dansholds]

Awesome @Manvendra2000 !

I've added it to our list to review, and I'll get back to you ASAP (going to close now as I've captured it but I'll comment back!)

[Manvendra2000]

Sure @dansholds! Thanks for the update. 🚀