This book is aimed at beginners who are looking to start building applications using Laravel and are ready to get hands-on, pretty fast by building a minimal project that covers most of the Laravel framework basics and a few advanced features that might seem overwhelming to beginners at first. Intermediate users with some experience, seeking better ways to architect small to medium-sized applications will also find this book beneficial.This book will show you how to build a simple inventory application. It will cover topics such as Blade Templating where we will be taking a random Bootstrap theme and converting it into a lean template which we can extend for all our pages, Authentication for our registration and login, Eloquent ORM to show you different database table relationships including a feature called soft deletes, Dependency Injection, Email setup and configuration, Routing types, naming and grouping and finally TASK SCHEDULING & CRON JOBS to perform background process.Most of all you will be learning how to write production-quality code by adhering to a standard naming convention, practices and writing DRY(Do, not repeat yourself) codes.The code to this project is hosted and can be found on GitHub