Session Spotlight

Building THAT SaaS Web App with Laravel!

In today's dynamic software landscape, launching a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is the best way to validate ideas and adapt to the market quickly. Laravel, a popular PHP framework, is renowned for its robustness, simplicity, and community support. In this session, we'll use Laravel to create an MVP for a basic Customer Relationship Management (CRM) SaaS application. Agenda: 1. Why Laravel for App Development - Brief intro to Laravel - Real-world apps built with Laravel 2. Setting the Stage - Spinning up a new Laravel project - Configuring the app environment 3. Designing the Data Model - Drafting a basic data model for our CRM - Creating migrations and Eloquent models - Using seeders for demo data 4. Crafting the Controllers - Basics of resourceful controllers - CRUD operations for our CRM entities 5. Building the View Layer - Intro to Blade, Laravel's templating engine - Building intuitive layouts and reusable components 6. Validation and Security - Leveraging Laravel's built-in validation methods - Overview of Laravel's batteries-included security 7. Testing - Why automated testing is beneficial - Intro to writing tests for your app 8. Deployment - Learn a few different ways to deploy your app to the public