2021 is a great time to learn Laravel and improve your knowledge if you’ve been using it. To start the year off we’ve made a list of 21 tutorials on everything from getting started to going deeper with the framework.

Getting Started with Laravel Tutorials

In this tutorial, you’ll go through building a simple link directory app. It covers everything from planning, setting up your database, Blade views, and more. Join our weekly Laravel newsletter and get this as a free PDF.

Laravel Eloquent

Laravel Eloquent is an object-relational mapper (ORM) that makes it easy to interact with your database. When using Eloquent, each database table has a corresponding “Model” that is used to interact with that table. In addition to retrieving records from the database table, Eloquent models allow you to insert, update, and delete records from the table as well.

At its core Eager Loading, is telling Eloquent that you want to grab a model with specific relationships that way the framework produces a more performant query to grab all the data you will need. By eager loading, you can take many queries down to just one or two.

In this tutorial, you’ll set up some example relationships and then walk through how queries change with and without eager loading.

If you’ve been working with Laravel for any time, you probably know the standard methods for creating Eloquent Models like make(), create(), update, and save(). Laravel includes some other methods are that also really useful for creating and updating Models that I feel don’t get enough attention. In this tutorial, you’ll learn about some of these additional methods and see how they might be useful.

Have I been pwned? is a service created by Troy Hunt that aims to archive all data breaches and then allow you to check and see if your email or username has been included in any breaches. It’s a super helpful service to see if your email or password has been found in a breach and in this tutorial learn how to utilize this data in your Laravel Validation

Laravel provides many excellent helper functions that are convenient for doing things like working with arrays, file paths, strings, and routes, among other things like the beloved dd() function. You can also define your own set of helper functions for your Laravel applications and PHP packages, by using Composer to import them automatically.

There are a ton of helper methods in Laravel that make development more efficient. If you work with the framework, I encourage you to see what helpers you can introduce in your day-to-day work. In this post, I’d like to point out a few of my favorites.

Many great developers could improve and gain some productivity and better tooling in their Terminal, so take a look at this tutorial for improving your productivity.

Wrap up

2020 was quite a strange year for everyone but even during the pandemic Laravel continued releasing new versions, making improvements, and getting better. In 2021, look for the release of Laravel 9 and 10, as well as more conferences, and hopefully more in-person meetups as things go back to normal.