Laravel for Beginners: Setting Up Your First Project
A complete first-day guide to Laravel — installation, folder structure, your first route, and your first migration.
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A complete first-day guide to Laravel — installation, folder structure, your first route, and your first migration.
One-to-many, many-to-many, polymorphic, and the N+1 query trap that catches almost every Laravel developer at least once.
Actions vs filters, safe functions.php structure, and the defensive habits that keep a single typo from taking down your site.
How events and listeners let unrelated features react to the same action without a controller needing to know about all of them.
Pest's readable syntax on top of PHPUnit — expectations, feature tests, datasets, and grouping, with zero loss of Laravel testing helpers.
SQL injection, broken access control, XSS, mass assignment, and misconfiguration — the real vulnerabilities developers actually cause, with fixes.