Introduction

Introducing the HackerPair Companion Project
About this Book
About W. Jason Gilmore
Errata and Suggestions

Chapter 1. Introducing Laravel

Installing the Laravel Installer
Managing Your Local Laravel Project Hosting Environment
Perusing the HackerPair Skeleton Code
Configuring Your Laravel Application
Useful Development and Debugging Tools
Testing Your Laravel Application
Conclusion

Chapter 2. Managing Your Project Controllers, Layout, Views, and Other Assets

Creating Your First View
Creating Your First Controller
Managing Your Application Routes
Introducing the Blade Template Engine
Integrating Images, CSS and javascript
Introducing Laravel Mix
Project Exercise: Build the HackerPair Skeleton
Testing the Project Skeleton with Laravel Dusk
Conclusion

Chapter 3. Talking to the Database

Configuring Your Project Database
Introducing the Eloquent ORM
Creating Your First Model
Introducing Migrations
Seeding the Database
Introducing Resourceful (RESTful) Controllers
Creating a Resourceful Controller
Tweaking Your Eloquent Queries
Introducing Query Builder
Summary

Chapter 4. Customizing Your Models

Managing Model Dates and Times
Defining Accessors and Mutators
Introducing Query Scopes
Creating Sluggable URLs
Testing Your Models
Summary

Chapter 5. Creating, Updating, and Deleting Data

Inserting Records Into the Database
Updating Existing Records
Deleting Records
Implementing the Event Controller’s Remaining Resourceful Actions
Integrating Flash Notifications
Updating an Event
Conclusion

Chapter 6. Validating User Input

Introducing Validation Rules
Introducing Form Requests

Chapter 7. Creating and Managing Model Relationships

Introducing Relations
Introducing One-to-One Relations
Introducing the Belongs To Relationship
Introducing One-to-Many (Has Many) Relationships
Introducing Many-to-Many Relations
Introducing Has Many Through Relations
Introducing Polymorphic Relations
Eager Loading
Conclusion

Chapter 8. Sending E-mails

Creating the Contact Form
Creating the Contact Form Request
Configuring Laravel’s Mail Component
Generating the Mailable Class
Protecting Your Form with a CAPTCHA
Summary

Chapter 9. Authenticating and Managing Your Users

Registering Users
Retrieving the Authenticated User
Restricting Forms to Authenticated Users
Adding Custom Fields to the Registration Form
Allowing Login Using a Username
Integrating OAuth with Laravel Socialite
Summary

Chapter 10. Creating a Restricted Administration Console

Identifying Administrators
Creating the Administration Controllers
Restricting Access to the Administration Console
Summary

Chapter 11. Introducing Events and Notifications

Chapter 11. Introducing Vue.js

Installing Vue
Creating Your First Component
Responding to Browser Events
Working with Props
Rendering Lists
Nesting Components
Integrating AJAX Requests with Axios
Summary

Chapter 12. Creating an Application API with Laravel Passport

API Fundamentals
Introducing Laravel’s API Infrastructure
Creating an API Endpoint
Creating New Events via the API
Introducing Laravel Passport
Conclusion