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# Chapter 2: Building Our First Website

Now that we know how to install Laravel, let's start working our way into our first Laravel website. In this chapter, you will learn about Laravel structure, routes, Controllers, Blade templates, Artisa

> **Important:** The book now supports Laravel 5.6. This chapter is complete. We will be updating all chapters regularly to fix bugs and > mistakes.

# Chapter 1 - Installing Laravel {#c1il}

There are many ways to install Laravel. We can

Tihomir Tonov shows us how to use a design pattern called Null Object Pattern to deal with null responses.

Patrick Brouwers introduces Laravel Excel 3.1 and shows us how to use it.

Sky Chin shows us 3 simple ways to use Collection’s map method in Laravel 5.

Laraflash is a good package which provides a handy way to work with the flash messages.

Model Notes is a simple Laravel Package which can be used to add Notes or Comments against any Laravel Eloquent Model.

MailCare is an open source disposable email address service, that was built and maintained at mailcare.io.