| I think neither StackExchange nor HackerNews are probably the right place where you'll find help with this. I'm sure there are plenty of Laravel peeps lurking around here, but HN's format isn't great for code review. Find dedicated Laravel communities like Laracasts, Larachat Slack, the official Laravel Discord, your local tech community group's #laravel or #php channel. To your question: Will this code get you a job? No, it's a super basic example. You seem to know that demonstrating more advanced concepts will do you good. Basically, a snippet of code isn't enough to get you hired. Yes, you've done the absolute basics of MVC with Laravel, and split logic out into a Service class which can be handy. What you need to do is put the entire project on your Github. Use everything you're learning in the app. Then, make sure the readme is up to date with what the project does, and add some screenshots or a recording to the readme of how it works. You don't have to build the next Amazon, but a basic "fake" e-commerce app and similar is good enough to demonstrate what you're doing. Make sure you commit code frequently and logically (commit groups of code by the feature you've added), so that your progress can be seen. Otherwise it can also look like to just copied and pasted code into the repo. All that being said, the sample you've built is decent for junior work! If you want to keep levelling up, I recommend Laracasts (plenty of free content on the site and Youtube channel) and Laravel Daily to start with. The other poster is right that understanding the fundamentals of your tech is arguably more important than learning a framework, but at this stage in your career I think it's more of a tomato tomato thing. You can start with a framework to be productive and then learn more about the fundamentals over time as you need to. Don't get bogged down in building a perfect understanding of PHP and associated technologies if it's resulting in you not getting anything built. |