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Laravel 5.x Cookbook

By : Terry Matula, Alfred Nutile
Book Image

Laravel 5.x Cookbook

By: Terry Matula, Alfred Nutile

Overview of this book

Laravel is a prominent member of a new generation of web frameworks. It is one of the most popular PHP frameworks and is also free and an open source. Laravel 5 is a substantial upgrade with a lot of new toys, at the same time retaining the features that made Laravel wildly successful. It comes with plenty of architectural as well as design-based changes. The book is a blend of numerous recipes that will give you all the necessary tips you need to build an application. It starts with basic installation and configuration tasks and will get you up-and-running in no time. You will learn to create and customize your PHP app and tweak and re-design your existing apps for better performance. You will learn to implement practical recipes to utilize Laravel’s modular structure, the latest method injection, route caching, and interfacing techniques to create responsive modern-day PHP apps that stand on their own against other apps. Efficient testing and deploying techniques will make you more confident with your Laravel skills as you move ahead with this book. Towards the end of the book, you will understand a number of add-ons and new features essential to finalize your application to make it ready for subscriptions. You will be empowered to get your application out to the world.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Laravel 5.x Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up Travis to auto deploy when all is passing


Level 0 of any work should be getting a deployment workflow set up. What this means in this case is that a push to GitHub will trigger our CI. And then from the CI, if the tests are passing, we trigger the deployment. In this example, I am not going to hit the URL that Forge gives you, but I am going to send an Artifact to S3, and then have CodeDeploy to deploy this Artifact.

As you will see in Chapter 4, Building Views and Adding Style under the Using Travis to run tests on every push section, I have covered setting up this app in Travis CI (https://travis-ci.org/); in this section, I will cover adding CodeDeploy as a part of this step.

Getting ready

You really need to see the section before this, otherwise continuing to know this will make no sense.

How to do it…

The following are the steps:

  1. Install the travis command-line tool in Homestead as noted in their docs at https://github.com/travis-ci/travis.rb#installation. Make sure to use Ruby...