The document discusses a Laravel workshop focused on rapid application development, particularly for SaaS and MVP projects. It highlights Laravel's comprehensive toolbox, modern development setup, and an extensive community background, emphasizing the framework's evolution since its inception in 2011. Key features include a robust backend and frontend support with tools like Eloquent, Blade templating, and various testing and packaging systems.

1. Laravel Workshop

2. ● Rapid Application Development
● Ideal for SaaS / MVP
● Comprehensive Toolbox
● Modern Dev Setup
● Vast Community

3. Background

4. Taylor Otwell
June 2011 V. 1
Illuminate V.4 2013
V.5 (LTS) 2015

5. ..back in 2011 CodeIgniter was lacking some functionality that
Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel, considered to be essential
in building web applications.

6. Ecosystem

7. ● Laracasts
● Documentation
● Build to Deployment
● Blogs
● Packages
● CMS - October / Asgard

14. Features

15. ● Routes
● Query Builder
● Eloquent Active Records
● Artisan & Tinker
● Packaging System
● Migrations & Seeding
● Blade Templating
Backend

16. ● Dusk JavaScript testing
● Mix - Webpack with NPM and Sass
● Vue JavaScript Framework
● jQuery
● Bootstrap CSS Framework
● Presets >= v 5.5
Frontend

17. Requirements

18. ● PHP >= 5.6.4
● OpenSSL PHP Extension
● PDO PHP Extension
● Mbstring PHP Extension
● Tokenizer PHP Extension
● XML PHP Extension
● Composer

19. ● Composer
● Homestead
● Valet (OSX)

20. App Launch

21. ● Homestead
● Valet
● Forge
● Envoyer

22. Demo
https://goo.gl/UnsVuH

23. Thanks
Jasper @imwz.io