Laravel, I've come to bargain...

laravel-I-have-come-to-bargain.md

I have been doing a lot of "pros-and-cons" stuff from a little over 2 years now - about using Laravel.

I made it a big deal (and I believe I regret it in a certain capacity).

It should not have been a big deal.

It is a just another framework.

Finally, I have caught up with my senses and I strongly believe that I was too arrogant or stupid to not go down the Laravel path.

I am far too young to allow myself to fall into such traps of "not-wanting-to-do-certain-framework-or-language".

Laravel, here I am, and I have come to bargain... and after that it's you "React JS and React Native"...

It's shockingly surprising how one's attitude changes when you do something out of sheer interest and curiosity vs when you are asked to do something.

Well, "that thing" happened with my "Laravel learning".

I was so pumped up to learn Laravel, and I got assigned to a project in which I have to code - and the framework is Laravel.

Suddenly, all my enthusiasm seems to be lost, and I am struggling to keep up the learning.

It's been a little over 2 months, and while I am still "learning Laravel", I have come to realise how my attitude changed, and that was definitely not for the best.

Now that I have realised this, I am back on track and have brought my best friend "passion" to the project (and my endeavour in learning Laravel).

Once again, restarting... #nazarRakheyo...

Here's the reason/excuse/justification for not updating this thread.

I was learning Laravel (damn it, that's the perfect excuse, especially in the context of this thread).

Anyhow, yes, that's true - I've been learning Laravel, and I don't mean "setup controller, model, views", I mean the whole shebang - routes, to migrations, to form-requests, service-providers, console commands, test-driven-development, using the first party packages (and third party as well), to add oh-so-many features.

Following tools have been added to my tech-stack and I have written more code in last 1 year than I have written in 10 years preceding that.

1. Laravel 9.x
2. Docker / docker-compose
3. Tailwind-CSS
4. Alpine.js
5. Terraform
6. Heroku CLI
7. GCP Cloud Run / Cloud SQL
8. AWS / RDS / Postgres
9. PhpStorm [probably "the-best" investment that I have done, like ever]

Packages/tools that I have been experimenting with:

1. Telescope
2. Breeze
3. Sanctum
4. PHP parallel lint, php-cs, php-md, php-security-checker
5. PestPHP
6. ZSH [z-shell]
7. Bladewind-UI
8. Blade-ui-icons
9. SVG icons, and the same icons as "fonts" - Material UI and devicons fonts

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