This section covers the most critical topics for a Senior Laravel Developer role, focusing on Modern PHP, Architecture, and the TALL stack.
1. Modern PHP & Core
PHP 8.2+ features, Service Container, Lifecycle, and Design Patterns.
2. Architecture & Patterns
Service Container, Facades, Dependency Injection, and Repositories.
3. Eloquent & Database
Optimization (N+1), Relationships, Scopes, and Queues.
4. TALL Stack & Filament
Livewire 3 Lifecycle, Alpine.js, and Filament Resources.
5. API Development
API Resources, Sanctum Auth, and Versioning strategies.
6. Queues & Jobs
Workers, Horizon, Redis, and handling failed jobs.
7. Testing
Pest vs PHPUnit, Feature vs Unit tests, and Mocking.
8. Security
CSRF, XSS, SQL Injection, Gates, and Policies.
9. Performance
Caching drivers, Database indexing, and Route caching.
10. Deployment
Forge vs Vapor, CI/CD pipelines, and Env management.
11. Events & Listeners
Observers, Broadcasting, and Decoupling logic.
12. Collections & Helpers
Pipelines, Higher Order Messages, and Lazy Collections.
13. Take-Home Task
Practice building a RESTful API with Sanctum.