A beginner-friendly walkthrough of building a simple CRUD journaling app with Laravel from scratch. Covers model creation and migrations, route model binding, form validation (and the bugs that appear without it), the old() helper for preserving input after failed submissions, collapsing manual routes into Route::resource(), and shared Blade layouts. The post emphasizes learning through breaking things rather than following pre-written code.
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What You'll NeedStep 1: The Model and MigrationStep 2: Reading Entries ( index and show )Step 3: Creating Entries ( create and store )Step 4: Editing Entries ( edit and update )Step 5: A Subtler Bug, Old InputStep 6: Deleting Entries, and Collapsing Six Routes Into OneStep 7: Cleaning Up With a Shared LayoutThe Walls, BrieflyWhere Tiny Journal Goes From Here1.2K Impressions1 Comment