In this chapter, the history and the installation of the HTML Laravel composer package was outlined. The construction of the master template was explained and then the form components, such as the various form input types, were shown through examples.

Finally, the construction of a form for the room reservation, as used in the book's example software, was explained, as well as a "do not repeat yourself" form macro creation technique.

In the next chapter, we will take a look at a way to use annotations to reduce the time required to create routing for the application's controllers.