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Laravel 5.x Cookbook

Laravel 5.x Cookbook

By : Terry Matula, Alfred Nutile
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Laravel 5.x Cookbook

Laravel 5.x Cookbook

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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.
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Testing your route in PHPUnit

As seen in the preceding recipe, I used the browser to show that the API is working. Here, I want to show how you can speed up your workflow by using PHPUnit to do this and then, more importantly, you end up with long term testing.

Getting ready

The previous recipes will help show how to lay the foundation. In this one, I will continue from there.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to test your route:

  1. Make a test:
    > php artisan make:test SearchComicsApiTest
    
  2. Then, edit the file tests/SearchComicsApiTest.php:
    How to do it…
  3. And run phpunit:
    > phpunit --filter=api_results_from_search_verify_format
    
  4. Now let's make it do something by hitting that API:
    How to do it…
  5. And let's verify some data, first, I will dump the data to my terminal to get a sense of what I can look for:
    How to do it…

    We will get the following output:

    How to do it…
  6. Then, I decide to assert a few things:
    How to do it…
  7. That's it, I now know my route is working, without going in the browser, and can now start working with the AngularJS code to display this...
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