31 Best Laravel Books of All Time (Updated for 2026)

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Laravel: Up & Running: A Framework for Building Modern PHP Apps

Matt Stauffer

5.0

What sets Laravel apart from other PHP web frameworks? Speed and simplicity, for starters. This rapid application development framework and its ecosystem of tools let you quickly build new sites and applications with clean, readable code. Fully updated to cover Laravel 5.8, the second edition of this practical guide provides the definitive introduction to one of today's mostpopular web frameworks.

2

Laravel Testing Decoded

Jeffrey Wa

4.8

Please note that this book exclusively covers Laravel 4.

I've seen it way too many times. As your application grows, so does your sloppy, untested codebase. Before long, you begin to drown, as your ability to manually test the application becomes unrealistic, or even impossible! It's at these specific times, when you begin to realize the down-right necessity for testing. Sure, you might have read a

3

Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript: With jQuery, CSS & HTML5 (Learning PHP, MYSQL, Javascript, CSS & HTML5)

Robin Nixon

4.8

Build interactive, data-driven websites with the potent combination of open source technologies and web standards, even if you have only basic HTML knowledge. In this update to this popular hands-on guide, you’ll tackle dynamic web programming with the latest versions of today’s core technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, and key jQuery libraries.

Web designers will learn how to use the

4

Laravel: From Apprentice To Artisan

Taylor Otwell

4.8

Written by the creator of Laravel, this is the definitive guide to advanced application development with Laravel 4. Learn about dependency injection, interfaces, service providers, SOLID design, and more while exploring practical, real-world code examples. Whether you're building a robust, large application with the Laravel framework, or just want to sharpen your software design chops, this book w

5

PHP Advanced and Object-Oriented Programming: Visual Quickpro Guide

Larry Ullman

4.8

Readers can take their PHP skills to the next level with this fully revised and updated PHP Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide, Third Edition! Filled with fourteen chapters of step-by-step content and written by bestselling author and PHP programmer Larry Ullman, this guide teaches specific topics in direct, focused segments, shows how PHP is used in real-world applications. The book teaches developi

6

Build APIs You Won't Hate

Phil Sturgeon and Ashley Hockne

4.8

Everyone and their dog wants an API, so you should probably learn how to build them.

Tasked with building an API for your company but don't have a clue where to start? Taken over an existing API and hate it? Built your own API and still hate it? This book is for you.

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Php, Mysql, & JavaScript All-In-One for Dummies

Blum

4.8

Explore the engine that drives the internet

It takes a powerful suite of technologies to drive the most-visited websites in the world. PHP, mySQL, JavaScript, and other web-building languages serve as the foundation for application development and programming projects at all levels of the web.

Dig into this all-in-one book to get a grasp on these in-demand skills, and figure out how to apply them to

8

PHP and MySQL Web Development

Luke Welling, Laura Thomson

4.8

PHP and MySQL Web Development, Fifth Edition The definitive guide to building database-driven Web applications with PHP and MySQL
PHP and MySQL are popular open-source technologies that are ideal for quickly developing database-driven Web applications. PHP is a powerful scripting language designed to enable developers to create highly featured Web applications quickly, and MySQL is a fast, reliab

Recommended by Scott Johnson.

Scott Johnson

I spent a ton of years doing mostly product management as opposed to software engineering (what I do now). Although I had written code and managed engineers, I wasn't really a hands on software engineer. In the wake of the dot com crisis, when everyone was unemployed, when an unexpected software engineering gig landed on me, the book PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thompson literally taught me database backed web development. Oddly enough, two years later, I ended up marrying one of the book's editors. If I hadn't read that book, I wouldn't have ended up speaking at the PHP conference where I met my wife and I would not be married to her (or have my kids). That one book took me down the Open Source path and while I've changed languages (Ruby / Rails), it literally changed every single aspect of my life. [source]

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The Complete Manual Guide for Dummies: Connect Laravel 6 API to Flutter Mobile App in 10minutes using a Sample Project

Matt Sam

4.8

This manual guide is detailed to guide you through this Laravel 6 API and Flutter on how to connect them using API Endpoint through Laravel Framework. However, It is written with a STEP by STEP approach which guarantees that you wouldn't miss anything with this guide in hand.
Simple and easy guide for new or an old Laravel Developer trying to get a hang on this Laravel Framework API and Flutter, th

10

Laravel 5 Cookbook Enhance Your Amazing Applications

Nathan Wu

4.8

We believe programming should be fun to learn. You'll LEARN BY DOING right from the beginning. This book features a lot of practical Laravel tutorials. Each tutorial includes practical advice, tips and tricks for working with jQuery, AJAX, JSON, API, modular PHP, testing, deployment and more.

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Laravel 5 Essentials

Martin Bean

4.7

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Php, MySQL & JavaScript All in One, Sams Teach Yourself

Julie C. Meloni

4.7

In just a short time, you can learn how to use PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript together to create dynamic, interactive websites and applications using three leading web development technologies. No previous programming experience is required. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson in this book builds on the previous ones, enabling you to learn the essentials of full-stack web appli

13

Mastering Laravel

Christopher John Pecoraro

4.7

If you are an experienced or a capable PHP programmer who has a basic understanding of the concepts of modern PHP (at least version 5.4), this book is ideal for you. Basic object-oriented programming and database knowledge is expected. You should already know your way around Laravel, or have at least experimented with the framework.

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Tor and the Deep Web: Bitcoin, DarkNet & Cryptocurrency (2 in 1 Book) 2017-18: NSA Spying Defeated

Lance Henderson

4.7

THE ULTIMATE TOR BROWSER & DARKNET GUIDE FOR 2018-2019Just three questions you need to ask yourself: ✔ Do You Value Privacy?✔ Do You Value Freedom?✔ Do You Want to be Anonymous?If you answered yes to any of the above, then this is your book. Instant anonymity, right now, can be yours for the taking. As science fiction author Hugh Howey once stated: When Pursuing a Dream, Don't Wait.People sling wo

15

Laravel Application Development Cookbook

Terry Matula

4.7

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Laravel in 60 Minuten: Eine Einführung in das moderne PHP-Framework (German Edition)

Anton Porsche

4.7

17

Laravel Design Patterns and Best Practices

Arda Kilicdagi, H. Ibrahim YILMAZ

4.7

This book covers how to develop different applications and solve recurring problems using Laravel 4 design patterns. It will walk you through the widely used design patterns—the Builder (Manager) pattern, Factory pattern, Repository pattern, and Strategy pattern—and will empower you to use these patterns while developing various applications with Laravel. This book will help you find stable and ac

18

Laravel: Code Bright

Dayle Rees

4.7

This title is the successor to Laravel Code Happy, which sold almost 3000 copies last year, and was considered one of the top learning resources for the Laravel framework. At $29 and cheaper than a good pizza, you will get the book in its current partial form, along with all future chapters, updates, and fixes for free. As of the day I wrote this description, Code Bright had 130 pages and was just

19

Full-Stack Vue.js 2 and Laravel 5: Bring the frontend and backend together with Vue, Vuex, and Laravel

Anthony Gore

4.7

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PHP e Laravel: Crie aplicações web como um verdadeiro artesão

Rodrigo Turini and 0

4.7

21

Learning Laravel's Eloquent

Francesco Malatesta

4.7

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PHP, LARAVEL, MySQL, HTML, CSS3, JAVASCRIPT. Pack 3 LIBROS: Introducción a Laravel - Desarrollo PHP + MySQL - Sitios Multiplataforma con HTML5 + CSS3 (Spanish Edition)

Staff Users, Users, et al.

4.7

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Laravel Starter

Shawn McCool

4.6

This book is a practical, task-based, step-by-step tutorial that demonstrates topics ranging from MVC code-separation, to code-modularity, to utilizing ActiveRecord for data abstraction which are explained from the ground-up to provide a strong framework of understanding for creating professional web-applications with Laravel. This book is ideal for programmers familiar with PHP who are interested

24

Laravel para ninjas

Ademir C. Gabardo

4.6

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Laravel Application Development Blueprints

Arda Kiliçdagi and Halil Ibrahim Yilmaz

4.6

Follow along as we work together to build 10 different applications using Laravel 4. Since each chapter is devoted to the design of a different application, there is no need to read the book in any particular order. Instead, you can pick and choose the blueprints that are of most interest to you and dive right in.This book is for intermediate to advanced level PHP programmers who want to master La

26

Getting Started with Laravel 4

Raphael Saunier

4.6

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Laravel Tworzenie aplikacji Receptury (Polish Edition)

Terry Matula

4.6

28

Beginning PHP Laravel: Step to step approach to building an Inventory App

Oluwafemi Alofe

4.6

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WEB-лаборатория: Разработка web-приложений любой сложности на шаблоне проектиования HMVC с использованием php-фрэймворка Laravel (Russian Edition)

Александр Михалькевич

4.6

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Laravel入门与实战：构建主流PHP应用开发框架

Matt Stauffer

4.6

31

Sams Teach Yourself PHP4 in 24 Hours

Matt Zandstra

4.6

This work offers five sections that guide the reader through PHP4 from the basics to the advanced functions. The first section of the book teaches the fundamentals of PHP. Building upon what has been taught in the first section, sections two through four show how to apply that knowledge in order to interact with the user by creating and managing forms, cookies and authentication. It also teaches h