Getting Started with the TALL Stack [December 2022]

2 min readNov 22, 2022

I love the TALL stack! It’s a highly-productive, well-documented, web development stack with a strong focus on developer experience. The TALL stack includes Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Laravel, and Livewire.

Free and paid resources for learning the TALL stack

There are so many good resources out there for learning the TALL stack, but here are some of my favorites:

Laravel 8 from Scratch (Laracasts, Free, ~10 hours)
Laravel from Scratch 2022 by Brad Traversy (Youtube, Free, ~4 hours)
Laravel Bootcamp (web, Free)
Blade Component Cookbook (Laracasts, Paid, ~2 hours) — you will need to understand Blade components to prepare for Livewire
Extensible Blade Components — Free article by Tighten
Eloquent Relationships (Laracasts, Paid, ~1 hour 30 min) — a bit more in-depth with Eloquent relationships

Full Livewire Tutorial 2022 — (Youtube, Free, ~2 hours)
Livewire Official Screencasts — (partly free; requires paid sponsorship to watch all)
Livewire Basics — (Laracasts, Paid, ~3 hours)
Livewire Performance — (CodeCourse, Paid, ~1 hour 20 minutes)
Laravel Cookbook — (Laracasts, Paid, ~4 hours) — includes lessons covering interactive charts, stats cards, and file uploads

Tailwind Crash Course by Brad Traversy (Youtube, Free, ~1 hour 30 minutes)
Tailwind 2: From Zero to Production — (Youtube, Free, ~ 1 hour 40 minutes) — covers Tailwind 2.0, but is still very good and relevant
Craft Scalable, Custom-Made Interfaces with Tailwind CSS — (egghead.io, Free, ~2 hours 30 minutes) — a bit more advanced, but an excellent walkthrough of using Tailwind to build a Discord clone.

Great news! All the TALL stack frameworks have excellent documentation. Be sure to review the official docs in addition to the resources above.