What is the best version to start learning Laravel from?

Question

Laravel

The Internet is full of courses and articles on the 5.x version, as well as quite a few on 7.x.
But there are already 8 on the off site, as I understand they are normally so different from each other ..
So which version is better to start learning Laravel from?

Answer 1

With current. Those. from the eighth.
The seven is also full of tutorials, but they do not differ much. At least basically.

Answer 2

Learn by installing the latest version.
We read all the documentation on the official website (yes, in English).
From myself, I will advise the YouTube channel Laravel Business and Dmitry Afanasiev's playlist .

Answer 3

The main difference between 7 and 8 is routes (in 8 you need to use namespaces and call controller methods differently) and model factories (in 8 the factory method is called on the model). And given that not everyone needs factories, only routes remain, and there you need to open the documentation and see the new syntax when an error occurs. Those. It makes no sense to put 7 at all.