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Backend Engineering

BUILD track: design durable APIs, data models, and production Laravel services for African products.

1 course 8–12 weeks 12 modules 36 lessons ~55 hours
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Why builders choose this path

Structured curriculum

Week-by-week modules with lessons built for African builders shipping real products.

Assignments & projects

Practice work and capstone-style projects that prove skill — not just video watching.

Certificate on completion

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What you’ll walk away with

Outcomes from the lead course in this track — the skills and proof you can show employers and clients.

  • Write maintainable modern PHP (types, exceptions, namespaces) suitable for team backends
  • Apply object-oriented design and dependency injection to keep domain logic testable
  • Structure a Laravel 13 application with clear HTTP, domain, and persistence boundaries
  • Design HTTP routes and thin controllers with Form Request validation and consistent JSON errors
  • Model relational data with migrations, Eloquent relationships, constraints, and N+1-aware queries
  • Build authenticated JSON APIs with authorization policies, API Resources, pagination, and idempotency awareness

Courses in this path

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Backend Engineering with PHP and Laravel

DRAFT PLACEHOLDER PRICING — not a live purchasable SKU while unpublished. Backend Engineering with PHP and Laravel teaches you to design, build, test, and operate professional backend systems on **Laravel 13** and modern...

12 modules 36 lessons 55 hours By Africoders

₦65,000

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Syllabus from Backend Engineering with PHP and Laravel. Open the course page for previews, assignments, and checkout.

Week 1: Modern PHP and Backend Engineering

3 lessons
  • Backend engineering vs scripts Preview 28m
  • Modern PHP language essentials 32m
  • Composer, tooling, and package discipline 30m

Week 2: Object-Oriented PHP

3 lessons
  • Classes, interfaces, and composition 30m
  • SOLID in practical backend code 32m
  • Dependency injection without framework magic 30m

Week 3: Laravel Application Fundamentals

3 lessons
  • Laravel 13 application structure and lifecycle 32m
  • Service container and configuration 30m
  • Artisan workflows that scale with a team 28m

Week 4: HTTP, Routing and Controllers

3 lessons
  • Route design for APIs and web entry points 30m
  • Controllers that stay thin 30m
  • Middleware as policy checkpoints 28m

Week 5: Validation, Forms and Application Boundaries

3 lessons
  • Form requests and validation rules 30m
  • Mapping HTTP input to domain commands 30m
  • Consistent error responses and status codes 28m

Week 6: Databases, Eloquent and Migrations

3 lessons
  • Relational modelling for Laravel apps 32m
  • Eloquent relationships and query discipline 32m
  • Migrations, factories, seeders, and N+1 prevention 32m

Week 7: Authentication, Authorization and API Design

3 lessons
  • Authentication sessions vs API tokens 32m
  • Authorization with gates and policies 34m
  • API Resources, versioning, pagination, and idempotency 34m

Week 8: Laravel Services, Events and Background Jobs

3 lessons
  • When requests should not wait 30m
  • Jobs, retries, and failed job handling 32m
  • Events, listeners, and side-effect boundaries 30m

+ 4 more modules — see full syllabus

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