Chapter 3. Your First Application
Having learned about Laravel's conventions, working with dependencies using Composer, and setting up a development environment with Homestead, you are now ready to build your first application!
In this chapter, you will use the concepts presented in the previous two chapters in a practical way and learn how to do the following:
- Plan the URLs and entities of your application
- Troubleshoot common issues when getting started
- Define routes and their actions, as well as models and their relationships
- Prepare your database and learn how to interact with it using Eloquent
- Use the Blade template language to create hierarchical layouts
The first step in creating a web application is to identify and define its requirements. Then, ...
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