Ultimate Laravel for Modern Web Development: Build Robust and Interactive Enterprise-Grade Web Apps Using Laravel's MVC, Authentication, APIs, and Cloud Deployment

Book Title ....1 Inner title ....3 Copyright....4 Dedicated Page ....5 About the Author....6 About the Technical Reviewer....7 Acknowledgements....8 Preface....9 Downloading the codebundles and colored images....11 PIRACY Page ....12 Table of Contents....13 Chapter 1: Getting Startedwith Laravel....24 Introduction....24 Structure....24 Introduction to Laravel....25 Preference for Laravel....25 Scalable....25 MVC Architecture....25 Community....26 Class Dependency Management....26 Eloquent ORM....26 Unique Features of Laravel....28 Database Seeding....28 Localization....29 Latest Version Release Changes....31 How to Upgrade....31 Dependencies....31 Minimum Stability....32 Public Path Binding....32 Redis Cache Tags....33 Database Expressions....33 Eloquent....33 Testing....34 Installation and Setup of LaravelDevelopment Environment....34 Installing PHP....34 Mac....34 Windows....35 Installing Composer....37 Mac....37 Windows....39 Installing Laravel....40 Laravel Artisan....41 Core Concept....47 Conclusion....48 Chapter 2: MVC Architecturein Laravel....49 Introduction....49 Structure....49 Overview of MVC Architecture....49 History....50 Separation of Components....50 MVC Architecture Pattern in the Context of Laravel....51 Design Principles....52 Reusability....52 Flexibility....52 Cohesion....52 Coupling....53 Design Independence in Components....53 MVC in Laravel....53 Key Features....54 SEO Friendly....54 Importance of SEO....54 Principles....54 Test Driven Development....55 Simultaneous Development....55 Maintainability and Extensibility....55 Models in Laravel....56 Views in Laravel....56 Controllers in Laravel....57 Conclusion....57 Chapter 3: Routers and Viewsin Laravel....59 Introduction....59 Structure....59 Routers in Laravel....60 Introduction to Routers....60 Routes Directory....61 Router Methods....62 Types of Routers....62 Redirect Routes....63 View Routes....63 The Route List....63 Fallback Routes....64 Route Parameters....64 Optional Parameters....65 Regular Expressions Constraints....66 Regular Expressions....66 Regular Expressions Constraints....68 Route Groups....69 Middleware....70 Controllers....71 Subdomain Routing....72 Route Prefixes....72 Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS)....73 Caching....74 Views in Laravel....74 Creating Views....75 Views and View Extensions....76 Nested Views Directories....76 First Available View....76 Data and Views....77 Sharing Data....78 View Composers and Creators....79 View Composers....79 Multiple Views with Composer....82 View Creators....83 View Optimization....83 Conclusion....84 Points to Remember....85 Chapter 4: Building Controllers and Blade Templates....86 Introduction....86 Structure....86 Controllers with Views in Laravel....87 Controllers....87 Resource Controllers....88 Constructor Injection....90 Method Injection....91 Redirects in Laravel....92 Redirect Helper....92 Redirecting to Named Routes....92 Redirecting to Controller Actions....93 Redirecting - Flashed Session Data....93 Directives in Laravel....94 Conditional Directives....95 Custom if Statements....96 Switch Directive....96 Auth Directive....97 Loops....99 Once Directive....101 Blade as Template Engines in Laravel....102 Data in Blade....102 HTML Entity Encoding....103 Components....104 Rendering Components....105 Passing Data....106 Layouts....107 Template Inheritance....108 Rendering Blade Templates....109 Rendering Blade Fragments....110 Conclusion....111 Points to Remember....111 Chapter 5: Working with Eloquent ORM and Query Builder....113 Introduction....113 Structure....113 Eloquent in Laravel....114 Database Migrations....115 Primary Key....116 Timestamps....117 Eloquent Events....118 Query Builder in Laravel....120 Selects....120 Joins....122 Left Join....122 Advanced Joins....123 Advanced Where....123 Aggregates....124 Raw Expressions....124 Pessimistic Locking....125 Caching Queries....125 Eloquent Operations....125 Model Classes....126 Model Conventions....127 Table Name....128 Primary Key....128 UUID and ULID Keys....131 Database Connections....133 Retrieving Models....133 Collections....134 Chunking Results....135 Chunk Using Lazy Collections....136 Cursors....137 Advanced Subqueries....138 CRUD Operations on Models....139 Events....141 Conclusion....143 Points to Remember....144 Chapter 6: Implementing Authentication and Authorization in Laravel....145 Introduction....145 Structure....145 Laravel’s built-in Authentication System....146 Laravel API Authentication Services....147 Passport....147 Sanctum....148 Customizing Authentication andRegistration logic....148 HTTP Authentication....148 Stateless HTTP Authentication....149 Custom User Providers....150 User Provider Contract....152 Authenticatable Contract....154 Implementing Authorization Policies and Gates....155 Invalidating User Sessions....156 Password Management....157 Configuration....157 Routing....157 Authentication Custom Guards....159 Closure Request Guards....160 Invalidate Sessions across Multiple Devices....162 User Session Knowledge....163 Additional Authentication Methods....163 Authenticate a User Instance....164 Authenticate a User By ID....165 Authenticate a User Once....165 Securing Routes and Actions withMiddleware....165 Middleware....166 Assigning Middleware To Routes....169 Middleware Groups....171 Sorting Middleware....173 Middleware Parameters....174 Terminable Middleware....175 Conclusion....177 Points to Remember....178 Chapter 7: Developing APIs with Laravel....179 Introduction....179 Structure....179 Understanding APIs, REST....180 REST....180 SOAP....180 Resources, Collections and NestingRelationships....180 Writing Resource....184 Relationships....185 Data Wrapping....186 Understanding Data Wrapping....188 Conditional Relationships....190 Resource Response....192 Laravel Passport....193 Installing and Setup....194 Configuration....195 Token Lifetimes....195 Overriding Default Models....196 Overriding Routes....197 Access Tokens....198 Client....198 JSON API....199 GET....199 POST....200 PUT....200 DELETE....201 Protecting Routes....201 Middleware....202 Access Token....203 Token Scopes....203 Defining a scope....203 Default Scope....204 Check Scope....205 Conclusion....206 Points to Remember....207 Chapter 8: Testing and Debugging your Laravel Application....208 Introduction....208 Structure....208 Introduction to Testing in Laravel....209 Setting up Environment for Testing....209 Testing Lifecycle....210 Creating Tests....210 Running Tests....212 Parallel Execution of Tests....212 Reporting....215 HTTP Tests....216 Make a Request....216 Customizing Request Headers....217 Cookies....218 Authentication....219 Debugging Responses....221 Exception Handling....223 File Upload Testing....223 Debugging in Laravel....225 Conclusion....226 Points to Remember....227 Chapter 9: E-mail and Notifications in Laravel....228 Introduction....228 Structure....228 Generating Notifications....229 Sending Notifications....229 Delivery Channels....230 Queuing Notifications....231 Delaying Notifications....232 Custom Notification Queue....233 Custom Notification Channel Queue....234 On-Demand Notifications....236 Mail Notifications....237 Customizing Email Components....238 Custom templates....240 Handling Raw Data....242 Tags and Metadata....243 Custom Symfony Message....244 Broadcast Notifications....244 Notification Events....247 Conclusion....249 Points to Remember....250 Chapter 10: Deploying your Laravel Appto Cloud....252 Introduction....252 Structure....252 Cloud Deployment Fundamentals....253 Cloud Providers Overview....254 Amazon Web Services....254 Heroku....255 Google Cloud....255 Laravel Application Deployment withVapor....256 Installation....256 Installing the Vapor Core....257 Installing the Vapor Dashboard....257 Dashboard Authorization....258 Environment....258 Deployment....262 Hooks....262 Development....264 Configure OpenSSL....264 Domains....267 DNS Records....268 Custom Records....268 SSL Certificates....269 Add Domain to Environment....269 Troubleshooting....272 Conclusion....273 Points to Remember....274 Index....275 A....275 B....276 C....276 D....276 E....277 F....277 G....277 H....277 I....278 J....278 L....278 M....279 N....279 O....279 P....279 Q....280 R....280 S....281 T....281 U....281 V....281 W....282 Back title....284