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Why Laravel? -- Setting up a Laravel development environment -- Routing and controllers -- Blade templating -- Frontend components -- Collecting and handling user data -- Artisan and tinker -- Database and eloquent -- User authentication and authorization -- Requests and responses -- The container -- Testing -- Writing APIs -- Storage and retrieval -- Mail and notifications -- Queues, jobs, events, broadcasting, and the scheduler -- Helpers and collections.

This practical book teaches Laravel piece by piece, starting from the ground up. It's not a reference book; you'll work through creating usable, real-world tools and applications as a way to learn all of the pieces of the framework. The purpose of this book is to teach beginners the foundations necessary to quickly become proficient with Laravel. This book is ideal for developers with experience in PHP or other C-family programming languages-especially those who don't have the time or resources to sift through the multitude of training resources available online. This is your single resource to Laravel when you want to get up and running right away--