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🧭 PHP Laravel Full Stack Developer Roadmap (2025)
🧱 1. Foundations
✅ HTML
- Semantic HTML
- Forms & Validation
- Accessibility Basics
✅ CSS
- Flexbox, Grid
- Responsive Design
- CSS Frameworks (Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS)
✅ JavaScript (Frontend)
- DOM Manipulation
- ES6+ Features
- Event Handling
- Fetch API / Axios
🔥 2. Frontend (Optional Frameworks)
✅ React.js / Vue.js (optional but recommended)
- Component-based UI
- State Management (React: Redux, Vue: Vuex or Pinia)
- Integration with Laravel APIs
🧠 3. Core PHP
✅ Learn Core PHP
- Variables, Data Types
- Functions, Loops, Arrays
- Superglobals (
$_GET, $_POST, $_SESSION, $_COOKIE)
- File Handling
- Form Validation
- Error Handling
🚀 4. PHP OOP (Object-Oriented Programming)
- Classes & Objects
- Inheritance, Polymorphism
- Traits, Interfaces
- Namespaces
- Autoloading with Composer
🧰 5. Composer (PHP Package Manager)
- Install/Update Packages
- Use Laravel installer
- PSR Standards
🧩 6. MySQL / Database
- CRUD Operations
- Joins, Views, Indexes
- Foreign Keys & Relationships
- Query Optimization
- Laravel Query Builder & Eloquent ORM
🌐 7. Laravel Framework (Latest Version)
✅ Laravel Basics
- Installation & Setup
- Folder Structure
- Routing & Middleware
- Controllers
- Blade Templating Engine
- Request & Response
- Dependency Injection
✅ Laravel Advanced
- Authentication (Laravel Breeze, Jetstream, Fortify)
- Authorization (Gates & Policies)
- File Uploads
- Notifications (Email, SMS)
- Queues & Jobs
- Event Broadcasting
✅ Eloquent ORM
- Relationships: One-to-One, One-to-Many, Many-to-Many
- Eager Loading
- Accessors & Mutators
- Scopes
✅ Artisan CLI
- Create models, controllers, migrations
- Run scheduled commands
- Cache, config, route clear
✅ Migrations & Seeders
- Create & Manage Tables
- Data Seeding
- Factories (for testing)
📦 8. REST APIs with Laravel
- Resource Controllers
- API Resource Classes
- Authentication (Laravel Sanctum / Passport)
- API Versioning
- Rate Limiting
📱 9. Frontend Integration
- Use Laravel with:
- Blade (Default)
- React.js (via Laravel Mix or Vite)
- Vue.js (Inertia.js + Laravel Jetstream)
- AJAX / Fetch / Axios
🛡️ 10. Security in Laravel
- CSRF Protection
- XSS & SQL Injection Prevention
- Hashing Passwords (bcrypt, Argon2)
- Encryption
📤 11. Deployment & DevOps
- Use Laravel Forge or Vapor
- Deploy on:
- Shared Hosting
- VPS (e.g., DigitalOcean)
- Cloud (AWS, Heroku)
- NGINX / Apache Configuration
- GitHub Actions / CI/CD Pipelines
🧪 12. Testing
- PHPUnit (Unit Testing)
- Feature Testing with Laravel
- Mocking & Factories
📈 13. Advanced Tools & Topics
- Laravel Livewire (Reactive UI with PHP)
- Laravel Echo (Real-Time Events)
- Laravel Horizon (Queue Monitoring)
- Laravel Telescope (Debugging Tool)
- Multi-tenancy Applications
💼 14. Project Ideas
- E-commerce Website
- Blog CMS
- Task Manager
- API for Mobile App
- Booking System
🛠️ 15. Tools You Should Know
- Git & GitHub
- Postman / Thunder Client
- VS Code with PHP Extensions
- Docker (for containers)
- Redis (for cache/queues)
- Laravel Debugbar, Clockwork
🎓 Learning Path Suggestion
- HTML + CSS (2–3 weeks)
- JavaScript + DOM (2 weeks)
- Core PHP + MySQL (4–5 weeks)
- OOP + Composer (2 weeks)
- Laravel Basics (4–6 weeks)
- APIs + Authentication (2–3 weeks)
- Advanced Laravel + Testing + Deployment (3–4 weeks)
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