What distinguishes Laravel from other PHP web frameworks? Speed and simplicity, to be precise. This rapid application development framework and its ecosystem of tools allow you to quickly create new websites and applications with clean, readable code. The fully updated third edition of this practical guide offers the definitive introduction to one of today's most popular web frameworks – Laravel 10. Matt Stauffer, a leading teacher and developer in the Laravel community, provides a comprehensive overview and concrete examples to help experienced PHP web developers get started with this framework immediately. This updated edition covers the entirely new authentication and frontend tools, as well as other tools introduced by Laravel since the second edition. Dive into features such as: Blade, Laravel's powerful custom templating tool; tools for collecting, validating, normalizing, and filtering user-submitted data; the Eloquent ORM for working with application databases; the Illuminate request object and its role in the application lifecycle; PHPUnit, Mockery, and Dusk for testing your PHP code; tools for writing JSON and RESTful APIs; interfaces for file access, sessions, cookies, caches, and search; tools for implementing queues, jobs, events, and WebSocket event publishing; as well as special packages like Scout, Passport, Cashier, and more.