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
   

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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
   

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3. For Further Reading
   laravelupandrunning.com easylaravelbook.com
   

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4. What exactly is Laravel?
   

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5. Laravel Ecosystem
   Framework
   Tools
   Learning &
   Community
   

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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
   

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7. 5.5 is the current LTS
   

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8. Which version should you use?
   https://www.reddit.com/r/laravel/comments/5v5mo8/
   laravel_55_will_be_the_next_lts_release/ddzwwf9/
   

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9. LaravelShift.com
   

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10. Getting Laravel
    composer global require “laravel/installer”
    

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11. Installing Laravel
    laravel new quickstart-basic-5.5
    

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12. Install via Composer
    composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel quickstart-5.5
    

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13. Local Dev Environment
    

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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
    

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15. Getting Homestead
    git clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead.git Homestead
    

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16. Getting Homestead
    cd Homestead && bash init.sh
    

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17. How I use Homestead
    composer require —dev laravel/homestead
    

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18. Make Homestead
    ./vendor/bin/homested make
    

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19. Configuring Homestead
    

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20. Starting Homestead
    

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21. Inspecting Homestead
    

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22. Edit /etc/hosts
    Optional for per project Homestead
    

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23. Inspecting Homestead
    

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24. Inspecting Homestead
    

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25. Stopping Homestead
    

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26. Don’t version control
    Homestead.yaml
    

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27. Getting Started with Laravel
    

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28. Project Structure
    

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29. app Folder
    

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30. config Folder
    

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31. database Folder
    

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32. public Folder
    

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33. resources Folder
    

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34. routes Folder
    

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35. Model Factories
    database/factories/UserFactory.php
    

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36. User Migration up()
    database/migrations
    

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37. User Migration down()
    database/migrations
    

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38. Database Seeders
    

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39. Artisan Commands
    

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40. Artisan Commands
    

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41. Create Migration
    artisan make:migration create_widgets_table
    

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42. Create Migration
    

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43. Create Migration
    

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44. Run Migration(s)
    artisan migrate
    

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45. Inspect the Database
    Password is “secret”
    

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46. Inspect the Database
    

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47. Create a model
    artisan make:model Widget
    

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48. Widget model
    

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49. Add Widget ModelFactory
    

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50. Create a seeder
    artisan make:seeder WidgetSeeder
    

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51. WidgetSeeder
    

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52. DatabaseSeeder
    

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53. Run Database Seeders
    artisan db:seed
    

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54. Users Table
    

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55. Widgets Table
    

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56. Routing
    routes/web.php
    

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57. Why 4 route files?!
    

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58. Add /widgets Route
    

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59. localhost:8000/widgets
    

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60. Frontend Development
    

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61. Run: npm install
    

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62. npm run dev
    

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63. Compiled Assets
    

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64. Layouts
    

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65. Example View
    

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66. Return a view()
    routes/web.php
    

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67. Refresh /widgets
    localhost:8000/widgets
    

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68. Clean up our layout
    

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69. Widgets Index View
    

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70. Pass data to a view
    routes/web.php
    

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71. localhost:8000/widgets
    

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72. Joe Ferguson
    Twitter: @JoePFerguson
    Email: joe@joeferguson.me
    Freenode: joepferguson
    Contact Info:
    Feedback!
    https://joind.in/talk/cef75
    

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