What sets Laravel apart from other PHP web frameworks? Speed and simplicity, for starters. This rapid application development framework and its ecosystem of tools let you quickly build new sites and applications with clean, readable code. Fully updated to include Laravel 10, the third edition of this practical guide provides the definitive introduction to one of today's most popular web frameworks.
Matt Stauffer, a leading teacher and developer in the Laravel community, delivers a high-level overview and concrete examples to help experienced PHP web developers get started with this framework right away. This updated edition covers the entirely new auth and frontend tooling and other first-party tools introduced since the second edition.
Dive into features, including:

Blade, Laravel's powerful custom templating tool

Tools for gathering, validating, normalizing, and filtering user-provided data

The Eloquent ORM for working with application databases

The Illuminate request object and its role in the application lifecycle

PHPUnit, Mockery, and Dusk for testing your PHP code

Tools for writing JSON and RESTful APIs

Interfaces for filesystem access, sessions, cookies, caches, and search

Tools for implementing queues, jobs, events, and WebSocket event publishing

Specialty packages including Scout, Passport, Cashier, and more