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A complete first-day guide to Laravel — installation, folder structure, your first route, and your first migration.
API routes, resources, Form Request validation, correct status codes, and Sanctum auth — a real, production-reasonable Laravel API.
One-to-many, many-to-many, polymorphic, and the N+1 query trap that catches almost every Laravel developer at least once.
Why anything that talks to the outside world belongs in a queued job, and how to dispatch, delay, and chain them correctly.
A complete token-based authentication flow for a Laravel API consumed by a separate frontend — login, protection, logout, and scoped abilities.
A real architecture for splitting a Laravel JSON API from a Next.js frontend — CORS, auth across domains, and on-demand revalidation.
How Inertia.js lets a Laravel backend and Vue.js frontend feel like one SPA-style codebase, without building a separate JSON API.
A complete Dockerfile, docker-compose stack, and Nginx configuration for running a Laravel app in containers, from local dev to production.