Laravel
A PHP application framework with routing, an ORM, queues, and a template engine. It is the modern end of PHP, where WordPress is the content-platform end.
I first used Laravel at UW-Milwaukee from 2016, converting the university's ColdFusion applications to it, and I value it for its expressive syntax and productive application-development conventions.
- Age
- 15 years (since 2011)
Experience highlights
- Converted ColdFusion applications to Laravel at UW-Milwaukee from 2016 to 2021.
- Maintain and modernize older Laravel applications at UW-Milwaukee, and use current Laravel for new ones.
- Advocated for adopting Laravel at Bader Rutter, where the team chose to stay with plain PHP.
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Related writing
Articles from JWS News and DEV that relate to Laravel.
Learning Laravel: Protected Routes and Authentication
Previously in this series, we have looked at how to install laravel, how laravel works, and how to deploy a laravel app. In today’s post, we are going to look at how you would protect a route so that the user would need to login in order to view a webpage.
How to deploy a Laravel app
As I promised in the most recent Laravel post, today we are going to talk about how to deploy a Laravel app to a production environment. At the time that I write this, the most recent version of Laravel is 9.x but when you read this, there is a good chance that 10.x or 11.x…
Learning Laravel: What is Laravel?
In last week’s laravel post, I mentioned that Laravel is an open-source PHP framework that uses the model–view–controller (or MVC for short) architectural pattern. This week, I want to drill down more on what that means.
Learning Laravel: Composer and The Laravel Installer
I spent years writing Laravel code at UWM but you might have noticed that I almost never wrote anything on this blog about it. I am hoping to address that here and now. If you don’t already know, Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework, intended for the development of w…
I bought laradock.dev and homestead.dev because … why not?
I just forwarded them to this site. If anybody involved with the projects want them, let me know.
PSA: Make sure that your server is not serving your .env file
Write laravel for a living? Maybe make sure that you don’t let your web server serve your .env files. Sample Google search: db_username filetype:env
Finding related thoughts…