Laravel: Up & Running: A Framework for Building Modern Php Apps

Contiene lo necesario para entender laravel y poder iniciar un proyecto de cualquier tamaño

A great book for both beginner and seasoned Laravel developer. It is very well written and dives in the more complex parts of Laravel... Highly recommend...

I have a PhD in computer science and I'm a software developer with more than 15 of experience. PHP is my preferred programming language, and Laravel is the top PHP framework. I developed many projects with the use of the Laravel framework. But I never learnt Laravel with the use of a book. I used tutorials and the official website. I wish I had known this book before. That way, I would have become a better Laravel programmer in less time. This book is a great introduction for both novice and advanced Laravel programmers. PRO: - This is an excellent introduction about the power and the tools that Laravel provides you. - It teaches you about eloquent, artisan, laravel mix, blade, authentication, rest apis, and testing, among others. - Examples are simple and very well explained. - The concepts are introduced properly. CONS: - The book uses Laravel 5.8 (for all the examples and concepts), when I read it, Laravel was in version 7. Nowadays, Laravel is in version 8. In my opinion, it is not very important. Even, if this book is designed with Laravel 5.8 most of the examples will work with minimum changes that you can easily find on Google. For me, the important part are the concepts and the tools that this book teaches you. Just a quick example, I didn't know about how Laravel supports fakers and dependency injection. Now that I know about these concepts, I try to apply them in my projects, no matter if it is Laravel 5 or 8 (changes are very simple). This book is 100% recommended.

Tem me ajudado muito a amadurecer o conhecimento do framework e melhorar a solução que estamos desenvolvendo.

Don't fear the book is outdated. As the author says, it focus on passing the concepts behind the Laravel framework rather than trying to be a substitute for the technical documentation. I find it very clear and a good basis to understand the important ideas of the framework and how to use it well.