This isn't a tutorial by any means, but it's a nice blogging application built on Laravel that you could look through:

https://github.com/ericbarnes/wardrobe

I also felt it when I started with Laravel, but since I had some experience with Rails, a little tries and I got far. But yes it would be a great addition to the documentation.

There's a pretty basic Todos app I built up on GitHub https://github.com/ChrisSoutham/LaravelTodoApp with a link to the working version http://laraveltodoapp.csoutham.com

You could perhaps take that apart as something basic, but it does some things you'd expect from a normal web app.

I have written a blog tutorial, and every thing is explained from models to authentication, here you go: https://github.com/usm4n/laravel-tutorial-codeheaps

There are many ways to get started. Documentation is helpful, but you need to know your way around to make use of it, but so are live examples in my opinion.

Personally I would take a look at Code Bright, you can buy a full book or check Dayle Rees's blog (I believe there are other books for beginners, but it depends on preferences), and where you have basic understanding what Laravel is all about, then write an app when helping yourself with live examples and tutorials. Nothing will teach as much as writing code, period.

Apps to look at: Wardrobe, October CMS (to be release soon), (L4withSentry)[https://github.com/rydurham/L4withSentry]

I just finished my first project with Laravel. The project itself was not that simple, but working on it allowed me to gain experience with most of Laravel's components.

I've been developing for a few years and usually when I learn a new framework I read the entire doc then get married to the forum and ask a bunch of questions. Laravel has been the only framework that I've learned so far where I haven't had the need to ask questions because I find that the documentation is by far the best that I've seen in a framework.

Of course I already had an idea of what I wanted to do, so my simple project became my real playground project.

I understand how important it might be to have a simple project, however, my recommendation would be just dive in as much as you can. You'll find that the doc might be the only reference you might need. It's not as scary as it appears at first glance :)

You can see my project at:

http://www.garimp3.com

I did a presentation this passed weekend at the Souther California Linux Expo (SCALE 12X) to share my experience with Laravel and some members of the audience mentioned that they'll give it a shot. Below is the link to the post at SCALE 12X:

http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale12x/presentations/php-cool-and-bizarre

I spent most of my time demoing the project and showing the behind the scenes, but posted the short slides at:

http://www.slideshare.net/jgarifuna/laravel-demo-022214

The project itself took longer than what I'm used to, given that I knew nothing about Laravel, but I'm glad I invested the time. I wouldn't consider myself a Laravel master yet, but my confidence level is very high and I intend to continue my learning journey with Laravel.

Just my two cents :)

Laravel truly rocks!

what about https://laracasts.com/

I got started with Code Bright, then moved to the docs in Laravel, then I subscribed to Laracasts. Code Bright is good for beginners, and I use the term beginner loosely because you should have some programming background and basic knowledge of objects, classes, functions, and such. After that, the Laravel docs made a lot more sense, but there were some things that it didn't quite click, ie IoC containers, design patterns, etc.

For that, I subscribed to Laracasts to "illuminate" some areas, and it's still helping me to this day. Jeffrey Way does a fantastic job of teaching you, and even challenging you to relook, redo and relearn, your current habits, so you'll come into new projects armed with solid principles will take you beyond Laravel and PHP. And he does all of that without making you feel bad!

Lastly, none of that matters if you don't engage in interactive learning. Don't just simply watch the teacher code for you, actually copy/paste what they do and see it for yourself!

i have written some introduces laravel, and laravel a simple and easy framework in php languages.

but first you have required Laravel Requirement and then you will install and with install composer.

just you think completed install and then as well as use MVC Model are good used in filed.