Laravel 5.6 blog

The purpose of this repository is to show good development practices on Laravel as well as to present cases of use of the framework's functionalities like :

• Authentication
• API
  • Token authentication
  • API Resources
  • Versioning
• Blade
• Broadcasting
• Cache
• Filesystem
• Helpers
• Jobs & Queues
• Localization
• Mail
• Migrations
• Policies
• Providers
• Requests
• Seeding & Factories
• Testing

Beside Laravel, this project uses other tools like :

• Bootstrap 4
• PHP-CS-Fixer
• Travis CI
• Font Awesome
• Vue.js
• axios
• Redis
• Many more to discover.

Some screenshots

You can find some screenshots of the application on : https://imgur.com/a/Jbnwj

Installation

Development environment requirements :

• Docker
• Docker Compose

Setting up your development environment on your local machine :

$ git clone https://github.com/guillaumebriday/laravel-blog.git
$ cd laravel-blog
$ cp .env.example .env
$ docker-compose run --rm --no-deps blog-server composer install
$ docker-compose run --rm --no-deps blog-server php artisan key:generate
$ docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/app -w /app node npm install
$ docker-compose up -d

Now you can access the application via http://localhost:8000.

There is no need to run php artisan serve. PHP is already running in a dedicated container.

Before starting

You need to run the migrations :

$ docker-compose run --rm blog-server php artisan migrate

Seed the database :

$ docker-compose run --rm blog-server php artisan db:seed

This will create a new user that you can use to sign in :

Email : [email protected]
Password : 4nak1n

And then, compile the assets :

$ docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/app -w /app node npm run dev

Useful commands

Running tests :

$ docker-compose run --rm blog-server ./vendor/bin/phpunit

Running php-cs-fixer :

$ docker-compose run --rm --no-deps blog-server ./vendor/bin/php-cs-fixer fix --config=.php_cs --verbose --dry-run --diff

Generating backup :

$ docker-compose run --rm blog-server php artisan backup:run

Generating fake data :

$ docker-compose run --rm blog-server php artisan db:seed --class=DevDatabaseSeeder

Starting job for newsletter :

$ docker-compose run blog-server php artisan tinker
> App\Jobs\PrepareNewsletterSubscriptionEmail::dispatch();

Discover package

$ docker-compose run --rm --no-deps blog-server php artisan package:discover

Accessing the API

Clients can access to the REST API. API requests require authentication via token. You can create a new token in your user profil.

Then, you can use this token either as url parameter or in Authorization header :

# Url parameter
GET http://laravel-blog.app/api/v1/posts?api_token=your_private_token_here

# Authorization Header
curl --header "Authorization: Bearer your_private_token_here" http://laravel-blog.app/api/v1/posts

API are prefixed by api and the API version number like so v1.

Do not forget to set the X-Requested-With header to XMLHttpRequest. Otherwise, Laravel won't recognize the call as an AJAX request.

To list all the available routes for API :

$ docker-compose run --rm --no-deps blog-server php artisan route:list --path=api

Broadcasting & WebSockets

Before using WebSockets, you need to set the BROADCAST_DRIVER in your .env file for Redis :

BROADCAST_DRIVER=redis

More details

More details are available or to come on Guillaume Briday's blog (French).

Contributing

Do not hesitate to contribute to the project by adapting or adding features ! Bug reports or pull requests are welcome.

License

This project is released under the MIT license.