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Pragmatic Laravel

Master Laravel by Doing

Complete Project-Based Training

Learn Laravel by building a real survey application — from views and routing to authentication, data analytics, and deployment — so you can ship production-ready apps with confidence.

Join other developers who've learned Laravel the pragmatic way.

About This Course

Pragmatic Laravel is a project-based course designed to teach Laravel the way it’s actually used in real applications — by building one from the ground up.

Instead of jumping between isolated examples, you’ll work through a single, cohesive project: a fully-featured survey application. Starting with a static HTML mockup, you’ll progressively transform it into a dynamic, production-ready Laravel app using best practices throughout.

Each module builds naturally on the last, introducing new concepts when they become relevant — just like real development work.

💥 What You’ll Build & Learn
As the project evolves, you’ll implement real features you’d expect in a professional Laravel application, including:
- Blade layouts, components, and reusable views
- Clean routing and controller organization
- Database design, migrations, seeding, and Eloquent relationships
- Form handling, validation, and error workflows
- Authentication and authorization
- Middleware, sessions, and request lifecycles
- RESTful resources and admin tooling
- Email notifications and background workflows
- Survey analytics, dashboards, and reporting
- Public-facing pages and deployment considerations

By the end of the course, you won’t just understand how Laravel works — you’ll understand how to structure, grow, and maintain a real Laravel project.

👉 Who This Course Is For
This course is ideal for:
- Developers who already know PHP and basic Laravel concepts
- Laravel users who feel stuck in “tutorial hell”
- Developers who want to learn why things are done a certain way, not just what to type
- Anyone who wants a realistic Laravel project they can learn from — or reference later

If you’re looking for quick tips or surface-level introductions, this probably isn’t for you.
If you want depth, context, and practical experience, you’re in the right place.

🎬 Course Format
- 17 structured modules
- 50 long-form videos
- 16+ hours of in-depth instruction
- One continuous, real-world project
- Immediate access to all lessons

The videos are intentionally long-form, allowing ideas to be fully explained and implemented — because real understanding doesn’t happen in five-minute clips.

It’s a deep dive into practical Laravel — one that connects concepts to craftsmanship. ⚡

Master

17

modules

Includes

49

videos

Over

16.3 hrs

of content

Course Roadmap

Many Laravel courses either stay too basic or jump into abstractions without explaining how everything fits together.
This course takes a different approach. You’ll build a real Laravel application from the ground up, learning concepts in context and applying best practices as the project evolves.
This curriculum follows a single, continuous project — each module adds meaningful functionality to the same application.
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"Good code isn’t about knowing more — it’s about making better decisions."

TekFoundry, Founder

Meet Your Instructor

Hi, I’m Bob Cravens — a software developer, consultant, and educator with years of experience building and maintaining real-world web applications.

I run a technology consulting company where I help clients design, build, and evolve production systems. That experience directly shapes how I teach. The patterns, tradeoffs, and decisions you’ll see in this course aren’t theoretical — they’re the same ones I use when building software that has to be understood, maintained, and extended over time.

I created Pragmatic Laravel because too many tutorials focus on isolated features without showing how everything fits together. Real applications don’t exist in fragments — and learning shouldn’t either.

My goal with this course isn’t just to show you how Laravel works, but to help you understand how to think about building Laravel applications — from structure and flow to long-term maintainability.

If you’re looking for quick tricks or shortcuts, this probably isn’t the right fit. If you want depth, context, and a realistic development experience, you’ll feel right at home.

If you want to get in touch, shoot me an email bob.cravens@tekfoundry.com.

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Why This Series?

Most Laravel tutorials focus on isolated features or polished demos. That’s useful for reference — but it doesn’t teach you how real applications are built.

This series takes a different approach.

Instead of jumping between disconnected examples, you’ll work through a single, evolving project. You’ll see how decisions made early affect later features, how tradeoffs are evaluated, and how structure matters as an application grows.

The videos are intentionally long-form. Not to waste time — but to show complete thought processes, real refactors, and the kind of decision-making that short tutorials skip.

By the end of the series, you won’t just know more Laravel syntax — you’ll understand how to build, reason about, and maintain a Laravel application.

Ready to start watching?

This video series will be fully released to all subscribers on Thursday 23rd of April 2026 . Monthly Plan — Watch 21 videos in this series today. New episodes unlock automatically as they’re released. Yearly & Forever Plans — Get instant access to all videos in this series plus 196 total TekCasts videos available today. Learn more topics, explore other series, and build faster—no waiting. Learn more about subscription options

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$99 $149 yearly
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