Another pretty straight forward lesson. Just basically added a log in controller that hides much of the information needed to authenticate the user. It even has an option for "Remember Me" built into the authentication function. It also helps track the session for the "Remember Me" as well.
The forms and routes are similar to the previous lesson, They even suggest copying the register view to build the login view. The rest of the lesson was to change the CSS which I didn't do to my app, as it was already a step up from my apps.
Overall, lots of helpers for everything. There is good sized layer of abstraction in Laravel that you don't need to worry about for the basics at least.
The last lesson is more of an overview of options to learn more. I hope to learn more and look at organization suggestions for larger applications. I hope that not everything isn't all in the same directory. Though much of the modules I would normally use aren't needed, it would still be nice to compartmentalize some of that functionality to make it easier to find and move through the code base.
For now I will check out another framework and then maybe come back to this to see what else I can do.