PHP 8, New Features

Hello. This is Jeong Sang-woo. 😎

I have published my first development book, Awesome Laravel . It is scheduled to be published on April 3, 2023. An eBook will also be published. The example codes in this book are also available on GitHub. If you have any questions, please leave them in the GitHub discussion and I will try to answer them as much as possible.

『Awesome Laravel』 is a Laravel book based on the latest version of Laravel, 10.x, released in February 2023. The book is structured in a way that you can learn concepts as needed through actual projects. You will be able to learn while feeling how Laravel's features are used in actual projects. This method will actually ease the resistance to technologies that you are using for the first time when using Laravel in practice.

The target readers are those who are new to Laravel, and also existing PHP developers who want to develop better services and grow by using a framework rather than CMS(Content Management System) such as Gnuboard and WordPress. Therefore, to read this book, you need to have general experience using PHP as a prior knowledge. Or, if you have taken the PHP lectures I opened at Inflearn, 『 PHP 7+ Programming 』『 PHP 7+ Programming: Object-oriented 』, you can follow along without difficulty.

What sets this book apart from other Laravel books, along with its support for the latest version, is testing. It writes and runs tests for every piece of code written in the project. It doesn’t just talk about how to write tests in Laravel, it writes tests for the actual code written in the project.

I plan to use this book as a textbook to create a Laravel lecture on Inflearn in the future. It will be a paid lecture, but since there are parts that I couldn't talk about in the book or parts that are easier to express in words rather than writing, I will talk about them in more detail than in the book. However, since online lectures and books are different learning methods, it will not be a big problem to do both or only one, because it will be different for each person. Since the book will be published first and the lecture will be released two or three months later, it is a good idea to study in advance with the book and then listen to the lecture to transfer the knowledge to long-term memory. The book and the lecture will play a complementary role to each other.

It's already been two years since I started writing "Awesome Laravel". It should have been published last year, but I think it was delayed because I was concerned about the quality and completeness of the code. I don't forget that there were people who waited for my book. It's finally time to meet those expectations 😊