Introduction to Laravel: Your Gateway to Fullstack Development

Curious about building web applications from frontend to backend with ease? This workshop is specially designed to help you understand the fundamentals of Laravel, a framework trusted by developers worldwide for creating fast, secure, and scalable applications.

What You’ll Learn:

• Laravel basics: Routing, Blade Template Engine, and the MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture.
• Building a simple RESTful API to support a frontend application.
• Database management with Eloquent ORM.

Why Join This Workshop?

• Hands-on learning with a mini project you can practice immediately.
• Guided by experienced mentors ready to answer your questions.
• An opportunity to connect with local developers and expand your network.

Who Should Attend?

• Beginners looking to learn Laravel from scratch.
• Developers wanting to add fullstack skills to their toolkit.
• Anyone interested in creating modern web applications.

What to Prepare :

1. Laptop Requirements:

• Install PHP (v8.2+ recommended). 

• Install Laravel globally via Composer (Laravel 11).

• Install Composer, PHP’s dependency manager.

• Install MySQL (or MariaDB).

2. Code Editor:

• Recommended: Visual Studio Code (VS Code) or PhpStorm.

3. VS Code Extensions (Optional) :

• PHP Intelephense: IntelliSense and autocomplete for PHP.

• PHP Namespace Resolver: Automatically resolve namespaces.

• Laravel Extra Intellisense: IntelliSense for Laravel-specific classes and methods.

• Laravel Artisan: Run Artisan commands directly from VS Code.

• Laravel Blade Snippets: Blade template code snippets.

• Laravel Snippets: Quick code snippets for Laravel.

4. Development Environment:
• Recommended: XAMPP
• Or Apache server if you are using Linux.