Laracasts

Learn from the best instructors in the industry, and build amazing web applications with PHP, Laravel, Vue, and more.

Laracasts is the learning platform for the Laravel and PHP ecosystem: screencasts that go deep on the framework, testing, JavaScript adjacent to Laravel, and the craft habits around them, taught at a pace and depth documentation cannot reach.

Why founders use it: a framework's documentation tells you what exists; Laracasts shows how practitioners think. For teams standardizing on Laravel, it is effectively the onboarding program, new hires ramp in days on the conventions, the testing habits and the ecosystem's judgment calls. The library has aged well, older series still apply because Laravel's core ideas are stable.

A realistic use: a new Laravel developer watches the fundamentals track while building a first project, then follows the series on testing, queues and deployment as the product needs them. The snippets and lesson transcripts double as searchable reference.

Trade-offs: it is Laravel-shaped, general PHP and JavaScript coverage exists but is secondary, and video learning suits some people's rhythm more than others. Compare with the framework's official docs for reference, and with broader platforms when the stack is polyglot.