Laravel 11 Cookbook

This book is packed with hands-on recipes that will empower you to overcome any real-world challenge you face when building, debugging, and deploying Laravel applications. There are so many advanced routing and controller patterns to explore, from dynamic URL parameters to resource controllers and custom JSON APIs. You'll be amazed at how your application responds precisely to user requests.

You'll implement Laravel Breeze for user authentication, craft RBAC with middleware, add social logins via Socialite, and enforce two-factor authentication with Fortify against unauthorized access. With server-side validation, you can create custom validation rules with clear feedback, centralize exception handling, and set up real-time error monitoring with Laravel Pulse. You'll also learn to automate critical workflows—configuring queue drivers and background jobs, retrying failed tasks, scheduling recurring operations, and backing up databases and media. Once you do, you'll be able to automate analytical reporting, from custom shell scripts to scheduled generation of performance-insight summaries. And you'll tie it all into Laravel's Scheduler and Linux cron.

In this book, you'll find ready-to-use solutions to the scenarios you face day to day. Whether you're dealing with broken migrations, N+1 queries, authentication gaps, missing alerts, or sluggish jobs, this book has you covered. It addresses the most common pain points in Laravel development without claiming to cover every possible edge case. Instead, it gives you proven recipes that let you focus on building features, confident that you have reliable fixes at your fingertips.

Key Learnings

• Achieve mastery of the Linux-based Laravel setup: Let's dive into the world of PHP installation, Composer, file permissions, and IDE configuration!
• Build dynamic routes, resource controllers, and Blade views for robust request handling.
• Protect your applications with Breeze authentication, role-based middleware, Socialite logins, and two-factor auth.
• Discover the magic of Eloquent models, one-to-many and many-to-many relationships, migrations, and seed realistic test data.
• Optimize database performance using eager loading, selective column queries, and proper indexing strategies.
• Take advantage of server-side validation, custom rules, and centralized exception handling for unparalleled data integrity.
• Keep an eye on errors in real time with the amazing Laravel Pulse, Debugbar, and Telescope dashboards.
• Offload your heavy tasks with ease using job queues, retry strategies, and Laravel Scheduler automation.
• Securely store, process, resize, and stream media using Laravel filesystem and Intervention Image.
• Automate backups, generate analytical reports, and integrate custom shell scripts with Laravel commands.

Table of Content

1. Setting up PHP and Laravel Environment
2. Advanced Routing, Controllers, and Blade Views
3. Authentication and Authorization Practices
4. Database Models, Migrations, and Query Optimization
5. Robust Data Validation and Error Management
6. Alerts, Notifications, and Performance Monitoring
7. Job Queues and Background Processes
8. File Storage, Media Management, and Processing
9. Scheduling, Automation, and Backup Tasks