Laravel — resources
roadmap.sh: https://roadmap.sh/laravel
Books
- Laravel: Up & Running (Matt Stauffer) — the definitive guided tour of the framework’s features and philosophy.
- Battle Ready Laravel (Ashley Allen) — auditing, testing, and hardening real Laravel apps for production.
- Laravel Queues in Action (Mohamed Said) — deep, practical coverage of queues, jobs, and background processing.
- Refactoring to Collections (Adam Wathan) — master Eloquent/Illuminate collections and a functional style in PHP.
Courses / practice
- Official Laravel docs — exceptionally well-written, the primary reference for every feature.
- Laracasts — the canonical Laravel video learning platform, made by the community’s core educators.
- Laravel Bootcamp — official hands-on guide building a real app with Blade, Livewire, and Inertia.
- Laravel News — stay current with releases, packages, and ecosystem tutorials.