Learning & Keeping Up To Date, with Eric Barnes

04/28/20 • 45 min

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If you're going to work with Laravel -- or any tech stack -- you need to find the best way to learn it, and then you need to find the best way to stay up to date over time.

Eric Barnes has been a member of the Laravel community since the earliest days; he worked at UserScape with Taylor when Taylor was building out Laravel 2, 3, and 4; and he runs Laravel-News.com, the largest and most comprehensive aggregator (and one of the larger creators) of Laravel-related content.

Laravel News: https://laravel-news.com/
Laracasts: https://laracasts.com/
Laravel News Newsletter: https://laravel-news.com/newsletter
Eric Barnes' web site: https://ericlbarnes.com/
Eric Barnes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericlbarnes
UserScape: https://userscape.com
Larajobs: https://larajobs.com/
Laracon Online: https://laracon.net/
Tumblr: https://tumblr.com/
Popular YouTube Laravel teachers
- Matt's streams: https://youtube.com/mattstauffer
- Coder's Tape: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQI-Ym2rLZx52vEoqlPQMdg
- Traversy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC29ju8bIPH5as8OGnQzwJyA
Popular Laravel blogs
- Matt Stauffer: https://mattstauffer.com/
- Tighten: https://tighten.co/blog
- Laravel Daily: https://laraveldaily.com/
- Freek: https://freek.dev/
Adam Wathan's video courses
- Refactoring to Collections: https://adamwathan.me/refactoring-to-collections/
- Test-Driven Laravel: https://course.testdrivenlaravel.com/
News podcasts
- Laravel News Podcast: https://laravel-news.com/category/podcast
- Laravel Snippet: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-laravel-snippet/id1451072164
Todo app tutorials in the Laravel docs
Lists of open source Laravel apps:
- https://github.com/chiraggudeawesome-laravel#codebases-for-reference
- Tighten open source SaaSes
  - NovaPackages: https://github.com/tightenco/novapackages
  - Onramp: https://github.com/tightenco/onramp
  - Symposium: https://github.com/tightenco/symposium
  - Ozzie: https://github.com/tightenco/ozzie
  - Gistlog: https://github.com/tightenco/gistlog
  - Giscus: https://github.com/tightenco/giscus
Laravel: Up and Running: https://laravelupandrunning.com/
Onramp: https://onramp.dev/

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Editing sponsored by Tighten; transcript sponsored by Larajobs.

If you're going to work with Laravel -- or any tech stack -- you need to find the best way to learn it, and then you need to find the best way to stay up to date over time.

Laravel News: https://laravel-news.com/
Laracasts: https://laracasts.com/
Laravel News Newsletter: https://laravel-news.com/newsletter
Eric Barnes' web site: https://ericlbarnes.com/
Eric Barnes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericlbarnes
UserScape: https://userscape.com
Larajobs: https://larajobs.com/
Laracon Online: https://laracon.net/
Tumblr: https://tumblr.com/
Popular YouTube Laravel teachers
- Matt's streams: https://youtube.com/mattstauffer
- Coder's Tape: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQI-Ym2rLZx52vEoqlPQMdg
- Traversy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC29ju8bIPH5as8OGnQzwJyA
Popular Laravel blogs
- Matt Stauffer: https://mattstauffer.com/
- Tighten: https://tighten.co/blog
- Laravel Daily: https://laraveldaily.com/
- Freek: https://freek.dev/
Adam Wathan's video courses
- Refactoring to Collections: https://adamwathan.me/refactoring-to-collections/
- Test-Driven Laravel: https://course.testdrivenlaravel.com/
News podcasts
- Laravel News Podcast: https://laravel-news.com/category/podcast
- Laravel Snippet: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-laravel-snippet/id1451072164
Todo app tutorials in the Laravel docs
Lists of open source Laravel apps:
- https://github.com/chiraggudeawesome-laravel#codebases-for-reference
- Tighten open source SaaSes
  - NovaPackages: https://github.com/tightenco/novapackages
  - Onramp: https://github.com/tightenco/onramp
  - Symposium: https://github.com/tightenco/symposium
  - Ozzie: https://github.com/tightenco/ozzie
  - Gistlog: https://github.com/tightenco/gistlog
  - Giscus: https://github.com/tightenco/giscus
Laravel: Up and Running: https://laravelupandrunning.com/
Onramp: https://onramp.dev/

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Editing sponsored by Tighten; transcript sponsored by Larajobs.

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