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Laravel advanced concepts and next steps

Laravel advanced concepts and next steps

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Laravel advanced concepts and next steps

- [Instructor] Now that you've seen the basics in how Laravel works, you may be interested in looking further and determining how you might use Laravel to build your own applications. The first you'll want to look at is the data layer. There's a DB class that you can use to do query and general database accessing. The Eloquent ORM tool is a quick and easy way to get set up plugging in your databases. There's also a schema class that's great for scripting database creation and you can utilize this when you work with migrations. The Artisan command line interface will make migrations easier so once you've set them up, then you simply need to run these migrations in order to move from environment to environment or if you need to start fresh. Additionally, there's a Redis class that you can use for Redis support. There are a number of other concepts that you can look into once you've mastered the MVC elements of Laravel. The middleware option allows you to handle pre- and post-controller…

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