Welcome to the Laravel Toolbox repository.

This repo contains the code examples and scripts from the Laravel Toolbox YouTube series - 15 bite-sized lessons covering essential Laravel features in 5 minutes or less.

Each episode shows you how to use a specific Laravel feature with clear explanations, live code, and practical tips you can drop straight into your projects.

1. API Resources: Clean, consistent JSON responses for your APIs.
2. Form Requests: Validate and authorize incoming requests.
3. Eloquent Accessors & Mutators: Transform attributes automatically.
4. Custom Blade Directives: Simplify repetitive template code.
5. Laravel Scout: Full-text search made simple.
6. Query Scopes: Reuse query logic across models.
7. Events & Listeners: Decouple your application logic.
8. Task Scheduling: Automate recurring jobs.
9. Job Queues: Offload heavy tasks for better performance.
10. Rate Limiting: Protect your app from abuse.
11. Testing with Pest: Write expressive, fast tests.
12. Laravel Pint: Keep your code clean and consistent.
13. API Rate Limiting: Control traffic at the API layer.
14. Policies & Gates: Handle authorization cleanly.
15. Observers: Hook into model lifecycle events.

👉 Links to episodes will be added as they go live on YouTube.

Got a tip, suggestion, or better example? Open a PR or drop an issue - this series is for the Laravel community, and contributions are welcome.

This repository is open-sourced under the MIT license.

Catch the full series on YouTube: Laravel Toolbox

New episodes every week.