Latest Lessons — Page 7
Browse our latest lessons below. Most of our lessons can be viewed in both written and screencast format.

Project Setup & Creating Dummy Data
In this lesson, we'll be setting up our project with fake data using a Model Factory and a Seeder. We'll also set up our initial list of posts so that we're all set and squared away to cover

Project Structure
In this lesson, we'll get familiar with our Adonis 5 project by running through all the folders and files and their purposes. We'll learn which folders and files within our project structure

Prerequisites & Creating A New Project
In this lesson, we'll learn about AdonisJS 5; what it is, what it offers, its prerequisites, and how to create a new project. We'll then start our project up to ensure everything is working.

Let's Learn Adonis 5: Introducing The Edge Template Engine
In this lesson, we learn the basics of the Edge Templating Engine, which allows us to dynamically inject our server-side data into our HTML views.

Let's Learn Adonis 5: Validating Requests
In this lesson, we focus on Adonis' built-in Validator. We'll learn how to define a validation schema, custom messages, custom rules, and more

Let's Learn Adonis 5: Writing Reusable Queries with Query Scopes
In this lesson, we'll learn how we can extract repetitive query builder statements into reusable query scopes as a way to keep our codebase easy to maintain.

Let's Learn Adonis 5: Querying, Checking Existence, and Aggregating Relationships
In this lesson we'll learn how to query relationships, determine if a relationship exists, and how to aggregate relationship data.

Let's Learn Adonis 5: The Query Builder
In this lesson we'll be focusing specifically on the query builder. We'll discuss how we can filter down data, order, limit, and aggregate our data.

Let's Learn Adonis 5: Creating Data & Relationships Records
In this lesson, we learn about conditional inserts and how to reach through to relationships to create relationships and related records.

Let's Learn Adonis 5: Intro to Creating, Reading, Updating, and Deleting (CRUD)
In this lesson, we'll learn the two different modules Adonis' Lucid provides us to communicate with our database. We'll then introduce basic CRUD operations using these modules.

Let's Learn Adonis 5: Defining Model Relationships
In this lesson, we'll learn about the different types of database relationships, how Adonis supports these relationship types, and how to define these relationships.

Let's Learn Adonis 5: Intro to Models
This lesson is all about models. We'll learn what they are, how to define them, what they're used for, and some of the extended capabilities they provide.