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Laravel Packages Development

Tinashe Musonza

Anyone familiar with the Laravel framework or any PHP framework can make use of this book. Ever installed PHP composer packages or want to create Laravel packages through a Test Driven approach? This book provides that.

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About the Book

Who is this book for?

Anyone familiar with the Laravel framework or any PHP framework can make use of this book. Ever installed PHP composer packages or want to create Laravel packages through a Test Driven approach? This book provides that.

How to use this book

I will provide all the code used in this book, but it is beneficial to code along as you go through it to get the most out.

What are we building?

We are going to build a chat package by following a test-driven approach. This package will be installed in any Laravel application and adds the ability for your Laravel models to participate in conversations with each other. For instance, a bot model can chat with a user model and a client model, and so forth. There will be fewer limitations.

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Tinashe Musonza

Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

About this book

  1. Who is this book for?
  2. How to use this book
  3. What are we building?

Requirements

  1. Composer
  2. Git

Package setup

  1. Project structure
  2. Composer init
  3. Composer require-dev
  4. Composer require

Laravel Packages

  1. Service Provider
  2. Facades

Testing

  1. Why Test-Driven Approach?
  2. Setup tests
  3. Conversation
  4. Composer Scripts
  5. It returns a conversation
  6. Model Factories - generate test data
  7. It can add participants to a conversation
  8. It can remove a single participant from a conversation
  9. It can return conversation participants
  10. It can create a direct conversation between two participants
  11. It can make a private conversation
  12. It can create a conversation with details
  13. Value Objects - gain control over primitives
  14. Refactoring Tests
  15. Messaging

Create messages

  1. It can send a message
  2. It can specify the message type
  3. It returns a message given the id
  4. It creates participant message references

Read / Delete messages

  1. It can mark a message as read
  2. It can tell whether a participating model has read a message
  3. It can mark a conversation as read
  4. Events

What are events?

Our package events

  1. ConversationStarted
  2. ParticipantsJoined
  3. ParticipantsLeft
  4. MessageWasSent
  5. Routes in packages

Unit tests vs Feature tests

Conversation

  1. POST /conversations
  2. GET /conversations/<id>
  3. PUT /conversations/<id>

Participation

  1. POST /conversations/<id>/participants
  2. DELETE /conversations/<id>/participants
  3. GET /conversations/<id>/participants

Messaging

  1. POST /conversations/<id>/messages
  2. GET /conversations/<id>/messages
  3. Configuration
  4. Data Transformers

What are transformers

Fractal

Conversation Transformer

  1. GET /conversations/<id>
  2. POST /conversations

Message Transformer

  1. POST /conversations/<id>/messages
  2. GET /conversations/<id>/messages
  3. Continuous Integration

What is Continuous Integration?

Travis CI

  1. Package distribution

Packagist

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