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What level of experience with PHP should one have to get the most out of this book?
by jjjensen 11y ago
What level of experience with PHP should one have to get the most out of this book?
- paulredmond 11y agoI'd say Intermediate level developers. Advanced developers that haven't written Laravel or Lumen APIs can benefit. I've geared the book towards the bigger PHP audience on purpose because I have found an amazing productivity boost in using Laravel for web apps and Lumen for APIs. The workflow is the same. By itself, Lumen provides a solid developer experience with database migrations, the Eloquent ORM (optional) and service providers. I have found a huge productivity boost in using Laravel + Lumen as my go-to development toolkit for APIs since I don't have to switch mindsets when writing APIs vs web applications. Those who write Laravel