I you do any work with arrays in Laravel or Craft you will instantly benefit for harnessing the power and utility of Laravel Collections. For Laravel, for Craft. 

Great concise video on Laravel actions, how to create them and how to test them.

Another handy little Laravel helper, abort_if. Perfect little helper inside actions when things go wrong. 

Great little Laravel model tip. Use the "wasRecentlyCreated" model attribute to check if your model was created or found 👍

It's hard to beat Laravel for backend development and React is a force for front end development. Inertia.js is the little bridge flowing the traffic between the two. This YouTube series does a 🧨 job of explaining how to make it happen.