From the Book - First edition.
Setting up a Laravel development environment
Collecting and handling user data
User authentication and authorization
Queues, jobs, events, broadcasting, and the scheduler
From the eBook - Third edition.
How This Book Is Structured
Conventions Used in This Book
"I'll Just Build It Myself"
Consistency and Flexibility
A Short History of Web and PHP Frameworks
The Influx of PHP Frameworks
The Good and the Bad of CodeIgniter
Laravel Versions in the New SemVer World (6+)
What's So Special About Laravel?
The Philosophy of Laravel
How Laravel Achieves Developer Happiness
Chapter 2. Setting Up a Laravel Development Environment
Local Development Environments
Creating a New Laravel Project
Installing Laravel with the Laravel Installer Tool
Installing Laravel with Composer's create-project Feature
Installing Laravel with Sail
Laravel's Directory Structure
Chapter 3. Routing and Controllers
A Quick Introduction to MVC, the HTTP Verbs, and REST
Modifying Routes to Allow Signed Links
Returning Simple Routes Directly with Route::view()
Using View Composers to Share Variables with Every View
Injecting Dependencies into Controllers
Single Action Controllers
Implicit Route Model Binding
Custom Route Model Binding
HTTP Method Spoofing in HTML Forms
response()->json() and ->jsonp()
response()->download(), ->streamDownload(), and ->file()
Chapter 4. Blade Templating
Defining Sections with @section/@show and @yield
View Composers and Service Injection
Binding Data to Views Using View Composers
