How do I build a Laravel 11 CRUD application with authentication?

The course builds a Laravel 11 app using Jetstream and Inertia, covering course creation, listing, editing, deletion, and authenticated user data.

How can I authorize users to delete only their own Laravel courses?

It uses Laravel policies to check that the authenticated user's ID matches the course owner's user ID before allowing deletion.

How do I deploy a Laravel app to Cloudways with a custom domain?

The course covers pushing to GitHub, configuring the Cloudways application, running migrations safely, and creating a DNS A record pointing your domain to the server.

Free Course Image Laravel Full Course: Build, CRUD, Auth, Email and Deploy to Live Server

Free online course Laravel Full Course: Build, CRUD, Auth, Email and Deploy to Live Server

Duration of the online course: 3 hours and 52 minutes

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Build real Laravel web apps fast: CRUD, auth, roles, email and deployment. Take this free course and move from local setup to a live server with confidence.

In this free course, learn about

Course stack: Laravel 11 + Jetstream + Inertia (SPA-style) for rapid web app development
Local development setup and installing a new Laravel 11 project
Database + .env configuration and running migrations to create default tables
Creating pages the Laravel way: routes/controllers returning Inertia responses (e.g., /courses)
Full CRUD for a Course model: create, read, update, delete with Inertia forms
Using flash messages so Jetstream banners show success feedback after actions
Querying only the authenticated user's records and passing them to Inertia views
Update/delete request patterns: proper HTTP verbs and sending requests from the frontend
Authorization with Policies (e.g., only the owner can delete a course)
Role/permission management with Spatie and protecting routes with permission middleware
Email setup (Postmark) via env config and sending mail via Mailables on course creation
Git/GitHub workflow and why built frontend assets may need to be committed for deployment
Deploying to Cloudways: handling migrations on a fresh server/app to avoid legacy conflicts
Pointing a custom domain to Cloudways by creating the correct DNS record

About the free online course

Want to build modern web applications with Laravel and feel confident going from an empty project to a live, working product? This free online course guides you through a practical workflow built around Laravel 11, helping you develop the skills employers and clients expect: creating pages the Laravel way, wiring routes, connecting a database, and shipping features that real users can log into and use.

You will build a complete, hands-on project with a clean development setup, then implement full CRUD functionality so you can create, read, update, and delete records properly. Along the way, you will work with an authentication-ready foundation, handle validated form submissions, and learn how to display user feedback smoothly after actions like creating or updating data. The course also emphasizes working the right way with user-specific data so each account only accesses what it should.

Security and access control are treated as core skills, not afterthoughts. You will add authorization using policies, then extend your app with roles and permissions to control which users can access sensitive routes and features. This is exactly the kind of architecture used in dashboards, admin panels, and multi-user SaaS products.

To make your application feel complete, you will configure email sending and learn how to trigger messages through Laravel’s mailing workflow when key events happen in your app. You will also connect the everyday tools developers rely on: version control with GitHub and a deployment process that moves your code from local development to a real live server. By the end, you will understand the critical deployment steps, how to avoid common migration issues on a fresh server, and how to point a custom domain using the correct DNS record.

If your goal is to become job-ready in web development or to confidently build and launch Laravel projects on your own, this course offers a clear path from fundamentals to production.

Course content

Video class: Laravel 11 Full Course 2025: Course Content Overview 03m
Exercise: Which stack is used throughout the course to build Laravel web apps quickly?
Video class: Laravel 11 Full Course 2025: Local environment setup [Lesson #1] 08m
Exercise: What is the main purpose of Laravel Jetstream in a new Laravel project?
Video class: Laravel 11 Full Course 2025: Installing Laravel [Lesson #2] 14m
Exercise: After creating the database and updating the .env file, which command is used to create the default tables in the database?

Video class: Laravel 11 Full Course 2025: Creating your first page the Laravel way [Lesson #3] 22m
Exercise: When creating a new Courses page with Inertia, what should the route do when the /courses URL is visited?
Video class: Laravel 11 Full Course 2025: CRUD in Laravel (create) [Lesson #4] 27m
Exercise: Which flash key should be used when redirecting back so the Jetstream banner displays the success message after creating a course?
Video class: Laravel 11 Full Course 2025: CRUD in Laravel (read) [Lesson #5] 21m
Exercise: How are only the authenticated user’s courses retrieved and passed to the index page?
Video class: Laravel 11 Full Course 2025: CRUD in Laravel (update) [Lesson #6] 23m
Exercise: When updating an existing course, which HTTP method is used for the update route and Inertia form submission?
Video class: Laravel 11 Full Course 2025: CRUD in Laravel (delete) [Lesson #7] 15m
Exercise: When implementing the delete feature for a Course, what is used to send the delete request from the frontend?

Video class: Laravel 11 Full Course 2025: Authorization with Policies 08m
Exercise: In a Laravel policy, what condition was used to authorize deleting a course?
Video class: Laravel 11 Full Course 2025: Spatie Roles and Permissions [Lesson #9] 29m
Exercise: Which middleware is used to protect a route so only users with the right permission can access it?

Video class: Laravel 11 Full Course 2025: Email Configuration [Lesson #10] 10m
Exercise: Which environment variable should be set to make Postmark the default mailer in a Laravel app?
Video class: Laravel 11 Full Course 2025: Mailables - Creating 09m
Exercise: Which Laravel feature is used to send an email when a new course is created?

Video class: Laravel 11 Full Course 2025: Push from local to Github [Lesson #12] 06m
Exercise: Why remove public/build from .gitignore before deploying the Laravel app?
Video class: Laravel 11 Full Course 2025: Deploy to Live Server [Lesson #13] 26m
Exercise: When deploying a Laravel app via Git to a new Cloudways application, what must you do to prevent old default migration files from causing problems during `php artisan migrate`?
Video class: Laravel 11 Full Course 2025: Using your own Domain 04m
Exercise: After adding your custom domain in Cloudways, what DNS record should you create to point the domain to your Cloudways server?

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