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113 Best + Free Laravel Courses & Certificates [2026]
Ranked by Michael Kuhlman, CourseDuck's founder, from student reviews across every provider. How we rank
Our top picks
- PHP with Laravel for beginners - Become a Master in Laravel [Udemy] - Best Paid Course
- Laravel & PHP Mastery: Build 5 Real-World Projects [Udemy]
- Create an eCommerce Website Using Laravel (PHP & MySQL) [Udemy]
- Laravel + Vue 3 + Inertia: From Zero to Production SPA [Udemy]
- Laravel Homestead [Udemy]
- Laravel 2019, the complete guide with real world projects [Udemy]
- PHP From Scratch | Beginner To Advanced [Udemy]
- Laravel 9 A-Z For Beginner With Complete News Portal Website [Udemy]
- Let's Learn Laravel & Livewire: A Guided Path For Beginners [Udemy]
- Laravel 13 & Vue 3: Full Stack REST API + Inertia.js SPA [Udemy]
About the best Laravel courses
CourseDuck compares the 113 Laravel courses listed here from 2 providers, 13 of them free, and ranks them from the 73,000 ratings and reviews their students have left, with the price, length and level of each one side by side. No course pays to be listed or ranked. As featured on Harvard EDU, Stackify and Inc. How we rank
Frequently asked questions
- Udemy and Eduonix are best for practical, low cost and high quality Laravel courses.
- Coursera, Udacity and EdX are the best providers for a Laravel certificate, as many come from top Ivy League Universities.
- YouTube is best for free Laravel crash courses.
- PluralSight, SkillShare and LinkedIn are the best monthly subscription platforms if you want to take multiple Laravel courses.
- Independent Providers for Laravel courses & certificates are generally hit or miss.
Laravel is one of the most popular PHP frameworks for building web applications. With its various useful features it lets developers build their websites fast and without the struggle. Also, it's very fluent, user friendly and easy to learn and understand.
- Average
- $85,767 a year
- Middle half earn
- $68,000 to $102,000 25th to 75th percentile
- Full range
- $35,000 to $123,000
Share of US job postings in each pay band; the dark bar holds the average, the striped bars the 25th and 75th percentiles. Source: ZipRecruiter salary data, gathered when this guide was first published in October 2026.
Yes and No. Certified Laravel developers on average make more money. Having a Laravel certificate greatly increases the chance of landing an interview and can open otherwise closed doors. Coursera, Udacity and EdX offer excellent certificate options for impressing your future employers. Eduonix, Udemy and several other providers offer certificates, but they aren't as reputable. If you have a Computer Science Degree, certificates are not as important. Still, many employers won't care about certificates, but rather your interview skills, experience and/or skills assessment.
113 Filtered Courses
Best Paid Course
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PHP with Laravel for beginners - Become a Master in Laravel (2021)
4.4
A 43-hour Laravel course that covers every Eloquent relationship type, then builds a CMS with roles and permissions, from a PHP instructor students find clear and fun.
Best for: PHP developers who know basic OOP and want one long, patient walk through Laravel's core ideas before building a CMS.
Pros
Cons
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- Covers every Eloquent relationship type, including polymorphic, each with its own CRUD section
- Reviewers say Diaz explains things several ways and the repetition makes concepts stick
- Q&A support gets repeated thanks in the reviews, even years after release
- Includes a Git and GitHub section and deployment to shared hosting, not just Laravel itself
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- Last updated March 2021; the newest sections target Laravel 7 and the CMS is also built in Laravel 5.2
- At 43 hours and 409 lectures, one reviewer calls it too big for a beginner
- No quizzes or coding exercises, so practice comes only from following the build
2
Laravel & PHP Mastery: Build 5 Real-World Projects (2025)
4.4
Five Laravel projects, from a task list to a job board, plus a PHP crash course appendix, taught at a slow, clear pace that 36,500 students have followed.
Best for: Beginners who want to learn Laravel by building several apps and don't mind the videos using Laravel 10.
Pros
Cons
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- Five distinct projects, from CRUD basics to a REST API, Livewire, and a nine hour job board build
- Slow, clear narration that re-explains key concepts in each project, which reviewers say makes it easy to follow
- Shows how to read Laravel errors and fix bugs, not just the happy path
- Six hour PHP crash course appendix, so no PHP background is needed
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- Videos use Laravel 10; students on newer releases spend real time adapting code despite the change notes
- Some reviewers find the accent and flat delivery hard to follow when code gets tricky
- No quizzes or coding exercises, and no offline download outside the mobile app
3
Create an eCommerce Website Using Laravel (PHP & MySQL) (2022)
4.1
An 8-hour build-one-shop project in Laravel with an admin panel, cart and Stripe checkout, popular with 124,000 students but showing its age since the 2022 update.
Best for: PHP developers who want a finished Laravel store for a portfolio or final-year project and don't mind fixing things along the way.
Pros
Cons
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- Builds one complete store: auth, admin panel, cart, Stripe checkout, orders and wishlist in 8.4 hours
- Reviewers say the coding is simple and easy to follow along step by step
- The instructor's on-screen mistakes double as debugging practice, which a couple of reviewers say they liked
- Admin panel section is the longest at nearly two and a half hours, so the back end gets real attention
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- Last updated September 2022 and reviewers say the Laravel version and PayPal section are outdated
- A cart quantity bug is never fixed and students say the Q&A offered no solution
- Low audio, wrong captions, and promised source code that reviewers say never appeared
4
Laravel + Vue 3 + Inertia: From Zero to Production SPA (2025)
4.6
The only course among our Laravel picks built around Vue 3 and Inertia, taking one full-featured listings app from setup to email verification in 19.5 hours.
Best for: PHP developers who know basic JavaScript and want to build a single-page app in Laravel without writing a separate API.
Pros
Cons
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- One real app that grows section by section: auth, relations, pagination, uploads, offers, notifications, email
- Reviewers repeatedly praise the instructor's clear English and simple explanations of hard topics
- Source code on GitHub plus separate Windows and Mac setup sections and a JavaScript crash course appendix
- Inertia removes the separate API layer, which one reviewer says made SPAs far simpler than an old Ajax setup
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- Code drifts from current Laravel and Inertia releases; reviewers report fixing version errors themselves
- No exercises, quizzes or assignments, so it is watch-and-code-along only
- One reviewer waited a long time for any answer in the Q&A, including private messages
5
Laravel Homestead (2017)
4.7
A free two-hour walkthrough of installing Laravel Homestead on Mac and Windows, taught by Edwin Diaz, with 2,371 reviews and a 4.7 rating despite a 2017 last update.
Best for: Laravel developers who want a guided Homestead and Vagrant install on Mac or Windows without reading the docs alone.
Pros
Cons
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- Free, and short enough to finish in an evening: 14 lectures, about two hours.
- Separate Mac and Windows install sections, so you only watch the half that applies.
- Mistakes are made and fixed on camera, which one reviewer says taught them to troubleshoot.
- One student says it got Laravel and Vagrant running after other tutorials had failed them.
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- Last updated July 2017; reviewers report Homestead paths and Laravel steps have changed since.
- Instructor jumps around; lower-star reviews want a checklist of what to install and when.
- Vagrant commands and virtualization are barely explained, so newcomers end up in the docs.
6
Laravel 2019, the complete guide with real world projects
4.4
Build simple to advanced web applications using the PHP's most popular web framework - Completely re-recorded for 5.8
What You'll Learn
- Build simple to advanced web applications using laravel
- Learn how to build ecommerce web applications in php/laravel
- Learn how to build forums, blogs, and the most popular of today's web applications
- Get a deep understanding of laravel
7
PHP From Scratch | Beginner To Advanced (2025)
4.6
Learn PHP fundamentals then build a job listing website from the ground up, using a Laravel-like infrastructure
What You'll Learn
- Learn the fundamentals of PHP programming
- Learning modules for data types, functions, loops, OOP, databases and more
- Build a job listing website from the ground up without using any frameworks or libraries
- Create a custom Laravel-like router that takes params & middleware
- Learn to utilize namespaces and PSR-4 Autoloading
- Build an authentication system using sessions
- Great precursor if you plan on learning Laravel
8
Laravel 9 A-Z For Beginner With Complete News Portal Website (2024)
4.6
In this course, you will learn larval 9 A-Z, Build One complete Basic Project and Online News Portal Website Project
What You'll Learn
- Laravel 9 Fundamental A-Z
- Create Complete News Portal Project with Laravel 9
- Multiple Language Option
- Adding Professional Theme for Frontend
- Adding Professional Theme for Backend
- Image Upload System
- User Role Management
- How to Set Up Reset Password Option
- How to Create Change Password Option
- Website Setting Option
- Manage News Advertisements
- News Photo and Video Gallery
- News Widgets Option
- Custom Pagination in Laravel
- How to Deploy Project in cPanel
- Email Verify in Laravel
- Update User Profile
- Multiple Image Upload
- Laravel 9 Authentication
9
Let's Learn Laravel & Livewire: A Guided Path For Beginners (2025)
4.6
A 17-hour build of one social app in Laravel 11, from PHP basics through Livewire to a live VPS, taught at a pace for people new to frameworks.
Best for: Newcomers who want to build one full Laravel app and host it on a real server.
Pros
Cons
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- Brad's step-by-step teaching is praised as clear, with resources for each lesson
- Builds one app from an empty folder to a live https site on a real VPS
- Covers Livewire, a Sanctum API, email and Docker practice in one path
- Starts with PHP itself, so no framework experience is assumed
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- Some code is outdated for Laravel 11, so learners hit errors Brad does not
- Q&A questions reportedly sit unanswered for weeks, so support is thin
- No quizzes or exercises, and some topics get only a quick pass
10
Laravel 13 & Vue 3: Full Stack REST API + Inertia.js SPA (2026)
4.5
Master Laravel 13, Vue 3, Inertia.js, Pinia, Sanctum & Tailwind CSS. Build, test & deploy 2 real portfolio projects
What You'll Learn
- Build and test a scalable RESTful API using Laravel 12 from scratch
- Create a modern Single Page Application (SPA) using Vue 3, Vue Router, Pinia & Bootstrap 5
- Implement authentication, authorization, and form validation for your API
- Use Postman and PHPUnit to test your backend like a pro
- Structure a fullstack app with clear separation of frontend and backend
- Build a complete monolith SPA using Laravel 12 + Inertia.js no API needed!
- Style your app with Tailwind CSS for a clean and responsive UI
- Learn how Inertia bridges Laravel and Vue for seamless page transitions
- Master the differences between API-first vs Monolith SPA architecture
- Deploy both your backend API and frontend app to a production VPS
- Understand best practices for real-world Laravel + Vue projects
- Gain confidence to build and launch apps that are portfolio-ready and client-worthy
11
RESTful API with Laravel: Build a Real API with Laravel (2022)
4.4
Build a RESTful API for a market system using Laravel and dominate the most challenging features of APIs with Laravel
What You'll Learn
- Create your own projects with Laravel (not only RESTful APIs)
- Make the most of your work tools (Sublime Text 3, Git, Github, Composer, PHP artisan and Laravel)
- Generate and maintain the structure of the database in an automated way with Laravel and the PHP Artisan console
- Use PHP Artisan effectively and be much more efficient
- Create and configure your own local development environment
- Properly configure your development environment for all your projects
- Hone the main HTTP methods/verbs for HTTP and RESTful APIs
- Use free professional tools to improve your productivity