Let's Learn Laravel & Livewire: A Guided Path For Beginners (Udemy.com)

Some good explanations and it started as a fun project. However, there's no additional help provided by the instructor if you get stuck and it's not very active with students providing feedback. Searching how to fix things with AI is somewhat effective but I continued to have a lot of errors in both VS Code Intelliphense and in the project. The meme, "it works on my machine" comes to mind. Overall, I enjoyed the instructors descriptions but could use a bit more of that sort of thing, especially when marketed to 'beginners.'

Learn The Essential Concepts of PHP, Laravel (11) and Livewire to Launch a New Career!" is an outstanding course for anyone looking to build a strong foundation in modern web development. The explanations are clear, practical, and beginner-friendly, yet detailed enough for intermediate learners. Laravel 11 and Livewire are taught in a way that makes complex concepts easy to understand, and the hands-on projects really help solidify the knowledge.

Brad is a fantastic teacher! He walks through a project from ground zero to live, running web app (with https) and explains what is going on at each step. This is a fantastic tutorial for anyone who wants to learn Laravel. It is truly a guided path and covers database connection and migrations, SPA behavior with Livewire, using the Blade engine, MVC architecture, creating API endpoints and interacting with them using Postman or Insomnia, and even includes 3 deployment scenarios: a shared hosting account with DreamHost, a Docker container on the local computer that mimics a VPS, and a shared VPS account setup with Linode.com/Akamai. Great stuff!

I am from a DevOps environment where I am mostly used to server side configurations, Kubernetes and many other things that are not part of developers work. So, for my first time to start a course on web development, I can say I am entirely satisfied with the way Brad teaches. I can’t believe there are no slides but everything perfectly clicks and is digestible. He takes you from local development to a production live environment and this is my first time to see how this is done. Extremely knowledgeable, I actually liked when he skipped the GitLab/Bitbucket/GitHub servers to push the commits straight to the vps. I believe however as a humble suggestion he can containerize the application via a Dockerfile and later connect it with a Kubernetes environment like Minikube for local environment or EKS for production environment to give extra 5 stars ⭐️ to the course. A small remark is that the life chat does not keep the conversations between the users. This course was amazing and thanking for passing down the knowledge with such a great energy.

Lots of really useful information in this course with lots learned, the app that is built is very simple and aids the learning process some courses try to create far too much too quickly and I think this course reallyu finds a balance between learning and creating an app. Also the section on deploying is a really useful starting point. I have a few of Brad's courses and he always delivers. Like all educators he sometimes goes around the houses to say something simple but I generally run courses at a faster speed then slow them down at important parts so this is never an issue. You won't regret buying this course if you are interested in learning Laravel

Its really a good journey of learning Laravel. So as a complete front end developer I started to learn this course so it helped me to learn a completely a new language and gain knowledge on SQL databases and server side. Now I feel confident that I can able to develop websites similar to the one that was explained in this course. Also its gave me a starting point to learn more advanced topics in Laravel. Thankyou for this wonderful Journey of learning.

Brad is the best teacher when it comes to learning to how code/program. I myself used to be a programming instructor and I can say I learned many good habits from Brad. This course is right on par with what I would expect from him. If you are a bit more advanced you may want to do things your way and not as manual as he does in this course. Like if you're a Windows user and want to use Laragon, go for it. It is still easy enough to follow and make the necessary changes. Again, wonderful course. Brad never gives too much info or doesn't assume you may already know something. A teacher than can explain complex topics in a very simple manner are the ones to follow.

I enjoyed the course a lot. Brad is a very good teacher and I felt his teaching style worked well for me. However, I would recommend students new to programming, to audit a beginner level PHP course before you give this course a go. You may feel a bit overwhelmed otherwise.

Thank you! This course was clear and easy to follow. The instructor spoke and taught at a speed that was higher than other courses I have taken, but I appreciated this because it meant the content was condensed and clear, instead of being extra inflated. I rarely watched the videos at higher playback speeds like I would normally do in online courses, and instead I found myself stopping to catch up and really understand a lot of the time. I also made several typing errors or mistakes, but rewatching the videos and explaining to myself what might be going wrong helped me to get through all the bugs I encountered, and I was able to follow along to full completion. I used several different software systems that were not the same as the ones in the videos, but that helped me to understand more about how each bit of code works, and not rely on doing exactly what the instructor does, to get the same effect. Overall, highly effective!

I've almost finished the course and I wanted to share my review. Let me start by saying that the course is awesome, but I do have a few constructive criticisms. Firstly, I think it would be beneficial for students to have some prior knowledge of PHP and relational databases before taking this course. The instructor doesn't go into great detail about the language, and there's no mention of topics such as dividing tables or creating foreign keys. Secondly, I was hoping for more in-depth coverage of mobile APIs. While I appreciate that the course covers website development as a whole, I subscribed specifically to learn about mobile APIs, and felt that the instructor moved through that section quite quickly. That being said, I did find the material informative and relevant to my needs. Thirdly, I think it would be helpful if the instructor provided more detailed documentation and explained where he gets his syntax from instead of simply typing the name of the functions. This would enable students to search for specific functions and features in laravel more easily after completing the course. Finally, I think it would be helpful if the instructor discussed different hosting options (such as VPS, shared hosting, cloud hosting, etc.) and how to choose between them. Overall, I highly recommend this course, but these are just a few areas where I think it could be improved.