Laravel in 60 Minutes

Most framework documentation is written for people who already know the framework. Laravel in 60 Minutes takes the opposite approach: the shortest path from an empty directory to something running, with the concepts introduced only when you hit the point where you need them.

The first edition came out in 2017; the second in 2019, rewritten for the parts of the framework that had moved on in between. The book grew into a set of video courses and learning material covering the same ground for people who’d rather watch than read. Teaching a thing turns out to be the fastest way to find out which parts of it you only thought you understood — a fair amount of how I structure code now came out of trying to explain it.