Back-End Roadmap

Introduction 🧐

Before embarking on studying any track (including Back-end) you must be familiar with a Science such as (Data Structure, Algorithms, Problem Solving) because they will help you more in your technical life and there is no interview free from questions about them. It is known also that a Back-end is considered a second phase after Fron-end (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) which is considered as the first phase So, you must be familiar with Front-end also to update any IMPORTANT urgent thing related with Front-end when you want that. FINALLY you must be familiar with Design Patterns also because you'll meet them more when you study Back-end and when you reach the Laravel framework you'll find out that the most advanced topics in Laravel is based on common design patterns such as Facade design pattern.

Prerequisites 📢

Xampp and Laragon are local development tools and you can choose between them to use according to your comfort, BUT personally, I prefer to use Xampp, you can choose also between PhpStorm and VS Code according to your comfort, BUT personally, I prefer to use VS Code for simplicity and speedy and in case you choose to use VS Code I recommend you to use these useful extensions you maybe love to use my extension also, I recommend some Chrome extensions they will help you also. Composer is a dependency manager for PHP, you will need it to install, update, and remove the packages in your PHP or Laravel projects.

Awesome Extensions 💡

VS Code

PHP Debug
PHP Inteliphense
Laravel Extension Pack
Auto Rename Tag
Error Lens
PHP Class Generator
PHP Snippets
vscode-icons
MySQL
GitHub Copilot

Chrome

GitHub Copilot is a very awesome tool BUT please use it in production applications ONLY NOT while learning.

Getting Started 🚀

Beginner Level 😋

PHP: Elzero || Laracasts || Traversy Media

At the first, we will use PHP programming language in our backend journey as a powerful language 👇

Apitizers

You can watch the PHP For Beginners as a optional choice after Elzero course also you can watch this tutorial

OOP: Elzero || Dani Krossing

Second, to be master at PHP you will need to be a hero in OOP (object-oriented programming) 👇

OOP

You can watch the Object Oriented PHP Tutorial as a optional choice after Elzero course

Advanced PHP: Elzero

Third, you may need to know some advanced topics in PHP like Sanitization and XSS 👇

Advanced PHP

Database: Elzero

After you become master in PHP you will need to know about Databases 👇

Database

Payment Gateway: Traversy Media

Sometimes you need to provide Payment methods to your website such as (Hyper Pay, PayPal, ...etc) 👇

Payment Gateway

You can see how I implement Hyper Pay payment gateway in Delivery-Management project

API: Traversy Media

Finally, after you’ve finished PHP & MySQL you'll need to know how to create APIs to be usable via Android TEAM 👇

API

You can find more about PHP in Awesome PHP

GitHub: Elzero || freeCodeCamp.org

Here you will learn how to deal with GitHub and publish your awesome projects 👇

GitHub

You can watch the Git and GitHub for Beginners - Crash Course as a optional choice after Elzero course

Intermediate Level 🔥

Laravel 5.x: Coder’s Tape

Here you will learn many things but in the old Laravel version 👇

Laravel 5.x

Laravel 7.x: Sarthak Shrivastava

Here you will learn many and many in Laravel and see new tools like Laravel-Livewire and Tailwind CSS 👇

Laravel 7.x

Livewire: Sarthak Shrivastava

Here you will learn the Livewire framework, this framework is similar to Vue.js 👇

Laravel Livewire

This step is optional BUT I advise you to learn that great framework as it will relieve you from AJAX problems. If you'd like to learn Vue.js you can see this tutorial, you may love to use Alpine.js also because it's a very lightweight Javascript framework

Advanced Level 😎

Laravel 6.x: Coder’s Tape

Here you will learn very advanced topics in Laravel 👇

Advanced Laravel

Laravel Real-Time 7.x: Ahemd Emam

Here you will learn very advanced topics and real-time actions in Laravel 👇

Laravel Realtime

You may love to take a look over Laravel-Websocket project

Ninja Level 🐱‍👤

Packages:

Andre Madarang || Sarthak Shrivastava here with you to will learn many useful packages in Laravel

Suppose that you want to make a project for a client, Surely you will NOT send the project to him and maybe you do NOT have private hosting, So welcome Ngrok. This awesome tool enables you to publish your project in virtual hosting

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