mattstauffer
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4 years ago Great! Just a few additions and edits:
Easy session-backed internal APIs: Learn to build simple APIs with Laravel that will power your app's JavaScript with almost no code.
Deployments: Learn how to use powerful tools like Laravel Forge to spin up your own servers and automatically deploy your code to it from GitHub.
Monitoring: Stay on top of your applications performance even during development to learn when the app broke for your users.
Basic Testing: Write code that asserts its own behavior to help you start and stay confident it does what it should.
Basic Dev-Ops: Manage your servers and the rest of your deployment infrastructure yourself.
Why Laravel / Laravel vs WP / Pros and Cons of Laravel for WP developers: Learn the differences between Laravel and WordPress and why you might choose to use Laravel for a project.
@mattstauffer Here's my try at the descriptions. I have a draft PR that will add the description field to the Module Resource so that these can be easily updated on the live site after you've provided feedback/made adjustments.
All Modules
Build a basic website Building a website can unlock a whole set of opportunities.
Basic Terminal & Git Master navigating the command line and code versioning concepts to increase your productivity as a developer.
Local PHP Environment Prepare your local development environment before you install and configure your first Laravel application.
Beginning PHP Start building dynamic, interactive web applications by learning one of the most widely used languages on the web.
Object-Oriented Programming Gain foundational knowledge of writing a clean, modular computer program by learning key concepts including Inheritance, Polymorphism, Abstraction and Encapsulation.
Laravel Basics A great starting point for developers that are new to the Laravel framework and its features.
Basic Javascript Use this to turn your basic website into a dynamic web experience and start thinking like a programmer.
Laravel Mix Ease into module-bundler configuration with a Webpack wrapper that's completely optimized for use with Laravel.
Basic session-backed internal APIs
Deployments Want to ship valuable features out faster? Add continuous integration and deployment techniques into your workflow.
Monitoring (e.g. Bugsnag) Stay on top of your applications performance even during development to provide your application's users with a greater experience.
Basic Testing Detect problems and areas of improvement in your code faster with test driven development.
Basic Dev-Ops Seamlessly move your applications from development and into production.
WordPress Only Modules
Local PHP Environment Configuring your local environment for development outside of WordPress.
Laravel Basics -- Not sure that this needs to be so different from the original
Why Laravel / Laravel vs WP / Pros and Cons of Laravel for WP developers Learn the differences between Laravel and WordPress and why you might choose Laravel instead.
Mapping the WP concepts Taking concepts you're already familiar with like themes and hooks, and seeing how they might be accomplished using Laravel.