Laravel 5.x Cookbook

Chương 1: Setting Up and Installing Laravel

• Introduction
• Setting up Homestead
• Setting composer and PHP on your local machine for faster Workflows
• Setting up your first application in Homestead
• Using .env for your local build
• Using sequel pro and connecting to local and remote databases
• Setting up Gulp and Elixir

Chương 2: Using Composer Packages

• Introduction
• Working with Composer install command and avoiding Composer update
• Making a provider
• Using the Facade pattern
• Using private packages

Chương 3: Routing

• Introduction
• Building an API / JSON based route for searching
• Testing your route in PHPUnit
• Building a view based route
• Testing your view based route in PHPUnit
• Creating named routes

Chương 4: Building Views and Adding Style

• Introduction
• Organizing your Blade files
• Installing a WrapBootStrap theme
• Making your authentication pages
• Implementing an error message template
• Building your main search page
• Adding a static page

Chương 5: Working with Data

• Introduction
• Setting up users and running migrations
• Altering a migration
• Using factories for migrations and tests
• Using a generator to scaffold your user wishlist area
• Seeding so you can see how your app looks
• Adding a file upload to user profile
• Validating the file upload
• Saving files to S3

Chương 6: Adding Angular to Your App

• Introduction
• Adding Angular search to our search page
• Handling Angular and Ajax requests
• Paginating our Angular results
• Testing an Angular page with Behat
• Creating a relationship with favorites
• Building a favorites Ajax widget in Angular
• Validating incoming input
• Using the CORS protection
• Using Elixir and Gulp to set up Angular

Chương 7: Authentication, Security, and Subscriptions

• Introduction
• Using policies and guard to protect user pages
• Adding feature flags to hide features from users
• Implementing Socialite to allow users to login with Facebook
• Adding custom middleware to protect user admin area
• Using Laravel to set up a subscription site
• Creating an interface for the user to manage subscriptions
• Creating an admin interface for subscriptions

Chương 8: Testing and Debugging Your Application

• Introduction
• Generating tests
• Using tests to think through your code TDT (Test Driven Thinking)
• Getting your code onto GitHub
• Using VCR for API testing
• Using Travis to run tests with every push
• Launching Gulp watch into your workflow
• Using mockery to test your controllers
• Troubleshooting your application

Chương 9: Adding Advanced Features to Your App

• Introduction
• Building an Artisan command
• Creating scheduler to notify users of new comics
• Setting up e-mail notices
• Adding clean URLS for the users profile page
• Using pusher for live notifications
• Adding a blog area to update users on new features

Chương 10: Deploying Your App

• Introduction
• Setting up Forge, AWS, and CodeDeploy
• Setting up Travis to auto deploy when all is passing
• Working with your .env file
• Testing your app on Production with Behat
• Making a composer package out of our client