Laravel Learning Path

This repository contains the ordered list of Laravel topics to learn, step-by-step, with related links.

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Beginner Level

Create your very first simple Laravel project

Topic	Learning Links (:book: Official Docs :clapper: Video :page_facing_up: Article :capital_abcd: Course)
Routing and Controllers: Basics
Callback Functions and Route::view()	📖 Basic Routing 📖 View Routes
Routing to a Single Controller Method	📖 Basic Controllers with Routes
Route Parameters	📖 Route Parameters
Route Naming	📖 Names Routes
Route Groups	📖 Route Groups
Blade Basics
Displaying Variables in Blade	📖 Blade: Displaying Data
Blade If-Else and Loop Structures	📖 Blade: If-Statements 📖 Blade Loops
Layout: @include, @extends, @section, @yield	📖 Blade: Layout Using Template Inheritance
Blade Components	📖 Blade Components 🎬 Laravel Blade Components: Two Examples - Laravel Breeze/UI
Auth Basics
Starter Kits: Breeze (Tailwind) or Laravel UI (Bootstrap)	📖 Laravel Breeze Official Documentation 📖 Laravel UI: Official Github Page
Default Auth Model and Access its Fields from Anywhere	📖 Retrieving the Authenticated User
Check Auth in Controller / Blade	📖 Determining If The Current User Is Authenticated 📖 Blade: Authentication Directives
Auth Middleware	📖 Protecting Routes
Database Basics
Database Migrations	📖 Database Migrations
Basic Eloquent Model and MVC: Controller -> Model -> View	📖 Eloquent: Getting Started
Eloquent Relationships: belongsTo / hasMany / belongsToMany	📖 Eloquent Relationships: One-to-Many 📖 Eloquent Relationships: BelongsTo 📖 Eloquent Relationships: Many-to-Many
Eager Loading and N+1 Query Problem	📖 Relationships: Eager Loading
Full Simple CRUD
Route Resource and Resourceful Controllers	📖 Laravel Resource Controllers 📄 Simple Laravel CRUD with Resource Controllers [digitalocean.com]
Forms, Validation and Form Requests	📖 Laravel Validation
File Uploads and Storage Folder Basics	📖 Filesystem: File Uploads
Table Pagination	📖 Database Pagination

Advanced Beginner Level

The goal of this level is to find the first job or freelance gig

Topic	Learning Links (:book: Official Docs :clapper: Video :page_facing_up: Article :capital_abcd: Course)
Routing Advanced
Route Model Binding	📖 Route Model Binding 🎬 Laravel Route Model Binding: All You Need To Know
Route Redirect	📖 Redirect Routes
Middleware
Create Custom Middleware Class	📖 Defining Middleware
Database Advanced
Database Seeders and Factories	📖 Database: Seeding 📖 Defining Model Factories
Eloquent Query Scopes	📖 Eloquent: Query Scopes
Polymorphic relationships	📖 Polymorphic Relationships
Eloquent Accessors and Mutators	📖 Accessors & Mutators
Eloquent Collections	📖 Eloquent Collections 📖 General Laravel Collections
Soft Deletes	📖 Soft Deleting
Auth Advanced
Authorization: Roles/Permissions, Gates, Policies	📖 Authorization 🎬 Laravel Roles and Permissions: All CORE Things You Need To Know
Authorization: Extra Packages - Spatie Permission, Bouncer, etc	🎬 Spatie Laravel Permission: Example Project Review 📄 Two Best Laravel Packages to Manage Roles/Permissions 📖 spatie/laravel-permission 📖 JosephSilber/bouncer
Authentication: Email Verification	📖 Email Verification
File Uploads Advanced
Drivers and Disks, Example of Amazon S3	📖 File Storage 🎬 Laravel: How to Upload Files to Amazon S3
Extra Packages: Spatie Medialibrary, Intervention Image, etc	📖 spatie/laravel-medialibrary 📖 intervention/image
API Basics
API Routes and Controllers	📖 API Resource Routes 📖 Default Route Files
Working with API Clients: Postman or Alternatives	📖 Postman API Client
API Eloquent Resources	📖 Eloquent: API Resources
API Auth with Sanctum	📖 Laravel Sanctum
API Error Handling and Status Codes	🎬 Laravel API 404 Error: Customize Exception Message 📄 HTTP Status Codes
Debugging Errors
Log Files in Laravel	📖 Logging
Try-Catch and Laravel Exceptions	📖 Error Handling 🎬 Exceptions in Laravel: Why/How to Use and Create Your Own
Local Debugging Tools: Debugbar, Telescope, Ray	📖 barryvdh/laravel-debugbar 📖 Laravel Telescope 📖 Spatie Ray (Premium Tool) 🎬 Debug Eloquent Queries from API: Laravel Telescope 🎬 Spatie Ray: Laravel Debugging with Pleasure
Customizing Error Pages and Messages	📖 Custom HTTP Error Pages 🎬 Laravel Error Pages: Change Text or Customize Layouts
(optional) Third Party Bug Trackers: Bugsnag, Flare, Sentry, Rollbar	📖 Bugsnag Laravel 📖 Flare Homepage 📖 Sentry Laravel 📖 Rollbar Laravel 🎬 Bug Tracking in Laravel: Bugsnag vs Flare [Demo/Review]
Sending Email
Mailables and Mail Facade	📖 Mail & Mailables
Configure Drivers/Services: Mailgun, Mailtrap, etc	📄 How to Send Email From Laravel, and Why We Need 3rd Party Providers For It 📖 Mail: Drivers Prerequisites
Notifications System: Email, SMS, Slack, etc.	📖 Notifications
Automated Testing with PHPUnit
"Smoke" Tests to Check if Pages are Loading	📖 Testing: Getting Started 🔠 Laravel: PHPUnit Testing for Beginners
Configure Testing Database and Test CRUD Operations	📖 Database Testing
Deployment and Version Control
Git Version Control	📖 Git 🎬 Git in Laravel. Part 1 - Branches: Main, Develop and Feature
Deployment on Live Servers	📖 Deployment 📄 How to Deploy Laravel Projects to Live Server: The Ultimate Guide 📄 What Server is Needed to Deploy Laravel Projects 🎬 How we Deploy Laravel: Branches, Staging Servers, Forge and Envoyer

Mid Level

Master all Laravel features with 3-5 years of practical experience

Topic	Learning Links (:book: Official Docs :clapper: Video :page_facing_up: Article :capital_abcd: Course)
Routing Extra Features
Route Caching	📖 Route Caching
Rate Limiting	📖 Rate Limiting 🎬 Laravel: Create Public API with Cache and Rate Limits
Invokable controllers	📖 Single Action Controllers
Database/Eloquent Extra Features
Model Observers	📖 Eloquent Observers 🎬 Laravel Model: Check if Any Field Was Changed 🎬 Eloquent Observers or Events Listeners? Which is Better?
Raw Database Queries	📖 Query Builder: Raw Expressions
All Eloquent Features	📖 All About Eloquent 🔠 Eloquent: Expert Level 📄 20 Laravel Eloquent Tips and Tricks
Various Extra Laravel Features
Custom Blade Directives	📖 Extending Blade
Events and Listeners	📖 Events and Listeners 🎬 Laravel: 3 Ways to Send a Welcome Email (Controller vs Observer vs Events) 🎬 Laravel: Why Observers and Event Listeners are "Risky"
Laravel HTTP Client and Guzzle	📖 HTTP Client 🎬 Laravel and External APIs: Get Data with HTTP Client
Login with X: Laravel Socialite	📖 Laravel Socialite
Creating Artisan Commands	📖 Writing Artisan Commands 🎬 How to Create Artisan Commands in Laravel
Task Scheduling	📖 Task Scheduling
Caching	📖 Cache 🎬 Cache Eloquent Query Results to Load Pages Instantly
Real-time: Broadcasting, Echo and Pusher	📖 Broadcasting
Jobs and Queues	🔠 Queues in Laravel
Queueable Classes and Jobs	📖 Creating Jobs 📖 Queueing Notifications 📖 Queued Event Listeners 📖 Queueing Mail 🎬 Laravel Queues 101: Example with Sending Emails
Job Dispatching, Batching and Chaining	📖 Dispatching Jobs
Processing Failed Jobs	📖 Dealing with Failed Jobs
Configuring Queues: Drivers, Redis, Supervisor	📖 Running the Queue Worker 📖 Configuring Supervisor
Laravel Horizon (optional, if you use Redis)	📖 Laravel Horizon
API Advanced
Upload Files via API	📄 Laravel API: How to Upload File from Vue.js
Generate API Documentation	📄 Laravel API Documentation with OpenAPI/Swagger 🎬 Scribe: New Package for Laravel API Documentation
API Versioning	📄 Versioning your REST API with Laravel 🎬 Versioning your API: from V1 to V2 and Beyond [video from my course]
Only-API Projects with Front-end like Vue.js	🔠 Vue.js + Laravel: CRUD with SPA
Only-API Projects with Mobile Apps	📄 Using Sanctum to authenticate a mobile app
(optional) Starter Kits: Laravel Jetstream and Fortify
Laravel Jetstream (requires Livewire/Inertia knowledge)	📖 Laravel Jetstream 🔠 Laravel Jetstream+Livewire: Real Mini-Project 🎬 Laravel Jetstream: How it Works and Example How to Customize
Laravel Fortify	📖 Laravel Fortify 🎬 Laravel Fortify: Four Auth Things to Customize
Payments
Laravel Cashier with Stripe/Paddle	📖 Laravel Cashier (Stripe) 📖 Laravel Cashier (Paddle)
Custom Payment Providers: PayPal, Mollie, etc	📄 Subscription billing with Laravel Cashier for Mollie 📄 How To Integrate Paypal Payment Gateway In Laravel
Automated Testing Advanced
TDD: Test-Driven Development	🔠 Build A Laravel App With TDD 🔠 TDD With Laravel
Mocking	📖 Mocking
(optional) Laravel Dusk	📖 Laravel Dusk
Full-Text Search
Laravel Scout	📖 Laravel Scout
Drivers: ElasticSearch, Algolia or MeiliSearch	📄 ElasticSearch Driver for Laravel Scout 📖 Algolia: Scout Extended 📄 Full-Text Search with MeiliSearch and Laravel Scout
Laravel Packages
Contributing to Packages, making Pull Requests	🎬 How to Contribute to Laravel Docs (or any open-source repository)
Create Laravel Packages	📖 Package Development 🔠 Laravel Package Development

(TO BE DONE LATER) Senior Level

Topic	Learning Links (:book: Official Docs :clapper: Video :page_facing_up: Article :capital_abcd: Course)