Why this lesson matters

Understand project structure and apply it in a small Laravel feature. Laravel conventions connect Composer, Artisan, environment configuration and the application directory into one predictable runtime.

How to reason about it

  • For Project Structure, the outcome to verify is: Map each directory to its responsibility before adding application logic.
  • In Project Structure, keep this failure controlled: Do not start copying framework code before you can explain where routes, configuration, application classes and tests live.
  • Project Structure practice target: Inspect a fresh project and trace one request from the route list to the file that would handle it.
Diagram

Project layers

Practical walkthrough

In the Project Structure walkthrough: Map each directory to its responsibility before adding application logic.

structure.txttext
app/Http/Controllers
routes/web.php
routes/api.php
resources/views
database/migrations
tests/Feature

Practice it yourself

Practice

Project Structure exercise

Inspect a fresh project and trace one request from the route list to the file that would handle it.

  • Record the expected result before execution
  • Test one valid path and one lesson-specific failure path
  • Explain in two lines which boundary owns the decision

Summary