Laravel 9.x: ECOM SHOP

Firstly, I don’t share such a review lightly. I appreciate the effort that authors put into their work. That being said, this course, while perhaps valid in that the app herein works, should not serve as training material for those wanting to improve their Laravel skills. The author has either not read Laravel documentation or is choosing to follow old PHP patterns. Even if the approach taught herein works, you should not use this to code your apps. Among many issues, controllers are not RESTful. HTML code is mixed into controllers and passed to views. To be sure, we’re talking passing in HTML elements as strings to a view along with a PHP data object. Then, in the Blade view, you are rendering the contents of that string. Improper use of the controller. Route naming is overly complex and does not follow best practices. The author uses a GET request for a DELETE route, meaning that important security vulnerabilities exist in the taught approach. Carelessness in route definitions and lack of understanding of request types is unacceptable as an instructor (don’t teach security weaknesses). The author mixes in jQuery extensively, which is fine if that’s your thing but can be better accomplished by Javascript libraries like Vue. The author appears without knowledge that the field has moved on from heavy jQuery usage. No Vue as far as I can tell (after 50%). Lecture 68 is blank (quality control). No request validation in controllers. Finally, the author’s narration is not helpful. He states what he is typing but offers little to no narration of why he is doing something. His narration style is ‘type along’, go here type this do this. Perhaps a language barrier, more likely the author hasn’t thought about what he wants to express. You are watching him code but not being taught, so to speak. An example of something that is foreign to me in which I would have loved an explanation is this in a controller method: json decode(json encode($proImages)). Would have loved an explanation of the decode wrapping encode. In conclusion, there are far better authors and trainers. Don’t learn anti patterns. Most importantly, if you are striving to correctly follow best patterns, you should rely on the official docs for a framework. If you teach patterns that are clearly contradicted by those docs or leaders in that field, you should not be teaching at this time. Despite the few redeeming elements, the few tips I could pick up, I would pass on this course. I suspect that those giving high marks to this author are either novices or otherwise unaware of Laravel best practices.

Awesome Course

Excellent coding language

Good course