Intro to Laravel and getting started in the Laravel Ecosystem MidwestPHP 2018

Join us for an evening to take a tour around the Laravel PHP Framework. We'll explore the basics of getting started and tour around the Laravel Ecosystem including local development with Homestead, deployment with Envoy, and building your next great application idea. We'll explore the basics of databases, routing, views, and then into the deep end with model relationships, form requests, testing, and more!

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1. Intro to Laravel and getting started in the Laravel Ecosystem Joe Ferguson
2. Who Am I? Joe Ferguson PHP Developer PHP Architect @ Ministry Brands Twitter: @JoePFerguson Organizer of @MemphisPHP OSMI Board Member Certified Laravel Developer Drone Racing Pilot
3. For Further Reading laravelupandrunning.com easylaravelbook.com
4. What exactly is Laravel?
5. Laravel Ecosystem Framework Tools Learning & Community
6. Quick note on versions 5.5 LTS bug fixes for 2 years, security fixes for 3 years Non LTS: bug fixes for 6 months, security fixes for 1 year
7. 5.5 is the current LTS
8. Which version should you use? https://www.reddit.com/r/laravel/comments/5v5mo8/ laravel_55_will_be_the_next_lts_release/ddzwwf9/
9. LaravelShift.com
10. Getting Laravel composer global require “laravel/installer”
11. Installing Laravel laravel new quickstart-basic-5.5
12. Install via Composer composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel quickstart-5.5
13. Local Dev Environment
14. What’s in Homestead •Ubuntu 16.04 •PHP 5.6 •PHP 7.0 •PHP 7.1 •PHP 7.2 •Nginx •MySQL •MariaDB •Sqlite3 •Postgres •MailHog •Composer •NodeJS •Bower •Grunt •Gulp •Beanstalkd •Memcached
15. Getting Homestead git clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead.git Homestead
16. Getting Homestead cd Homestead && bash init.sh
17. How I use Homestead composer require —dev laravel/homestead
18. Make Homestead ./vendor/bin/homested make
19. Configuring Homestead
20. Starting Homestead
21. Inspecting Homestead
22. Edit /etc/hosts Optional for per project Homestead
23. Inspecting Homestead
24. Inspecting Homestead
25. Stopping Homestead
26. Don’t version control Homestead.yaml
27. Getting Started with Laravel
28. Project Structure
29. app Folder
30. config Folder
31. database Folder
32. public Folder
33. resources Folder
34. routes Folder
35. Model Factories database/factories/UserFactory.php
36. User Migration up() database/migrations
37. User Migration down() database/migrations
38. Database Seeders
39. Artisan Commands
40. Artisan Commands
41. Create Migration artisan make:migration create_widgets_table
42. Create Migration
43. Create Migration
44. Run Migration(s) artisan migrate
45. Inspect the Database Password is “secret”
46. Inspect the Database
47. Create a model artisan make:model Widget
48. Widget model
49. Add Widget ModelFactory
50. Create a seeder artisan make:seeder WidgetSeeder
51. WidgetSeeder
52. DatabaseSeeder
53. Run Database Seeders artisan db:seed
54. Users Table
55. Widgets Table
56. Routing routes/web.php
57. Why 4 route files?!
58. Add /widgets Route
59. localhost:8000/widgets
60. Frontend Development
61. Run: npm install
62. npm run dev
63. Compiled Assets
64. Layouts
65. Example View
66. Return a view() routes/web.php
67. Refresh /widgets localhost:8000/widgets
68. Clean up our layout
69. Widgets Index View
70. Pass data to a view routes/web.php
71. localhost:8000/widgets
72. Joe Ferguson Twitter: @JoePFerguson Email: joe@joeferguson.me Freenode: joepferguson Contact Info: Feedback! https://joind.in/talk/cef75