PHP8 - Laravel 12

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Introduction ​

About Laravel ​

Laravel is a popular and widely-used PHP web application framework for modern web development. It is designed for web developers who need a simple, elegant, and well-documented toolkit to build full-featured web applications with PHP.

Laravel offers features like built-in authentication, elegant syntax, and a vibrant community, making it an ideal choice for modern web development.

Laravel popularity

  • Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework
  • Laravel is based on Symfony
  • Laravel follows the model-view-controller (MVC) architectural pattern
  • Its aim is to make development an enjoyable and creative experience by easing common tasks (authentication, database migrations/seeding, routing, templating and more) used in most web projects
  • The framework was originally developed by Taylor Otwell in 2011 as a more advanced alternative to the CodeIgniter framework

To further enhance the development experience, this course incorporates the TALL stack, which complements Laravel's capabilities.

Laravel's MVC Pattern ​

The MVC pattern separates an application into three interconnected components:

  • Model: Manages the data and business logic.
  • View: Handles the presentation layer.
  • Controller: Acts as an intermediary between the Model and View, processing user input and updating the Model or View accordingly. Laravel's implementation of MVC ensures a clean separation of concerns, making code easier to maintain and scale.

Laravel MVC pattern

TALL Stack ​

In addition to Laravel, this course introduces other tools to enhance usability. The so-called TALL stack consists of the following four components:

  • Tailwind CSS:
    Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces without writing your own CSS
  • Alpine.js:
    Alpine.js is a tiny JavaScript framework composing Javascript behavior directly in your HTML markup and works perfectly with Livewire because it is developed by the same creator
  • Livewire:
    Livewire is a full-stack framework for Laravel that simplifies building dynamic/interactive view components. It allows you to stay within the Laravel ecosystem and eliminates the need to write JavaScript manually.
  • Laravel

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Since we added the Livewire starter kit for authentication at the start of this project, all TALL stack components are already present. This kit also includes a bunch of Flux UI components (buttons, forms, modals, etc.) that you can use in your project.

Laravel 12 ​

Tailwind CSS ​

Alpine js ​

Livewire ​

Flux UI components ​

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