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Your First Application

Having learned about Laravel's conventions, working with dependencies using 

Composer, and setting up a development environment with Homestead, you are 

now ready to build your first application!

In this chapter, you will use the concepts presented in the previous two chapters in  

a practical way and learn how to do the following:

•  Plan the URLs and entities of your application

•  Troubleshoot common issues when getting started

•  Define routes and their actions, as well as models and their relationships

•  Prepare your database and learn how to interact with it using Eloquent

•  Use the Blade template language to create hierarchical layouts

The first step in creating a web application is to identify and define its requirements. 

Then, once the main features have been decided, we derive the main entities as well 

as the URL structure of the application. Having a well-defined set of requirements 

and URLs is also essential for other tasks such as testing; this will be covered later in 

the book.

A lot of new concepts are presented in this chapter. If you have trouble 

understanding something or if you are not quite sure where to place a particular 

snippet of code, you can download the annotated source code of the application from 

http://packtpub.com/support

, which will help you to follow along.

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Your First Application