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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

Using tests to think through your code TDT (Test Driven Thinking)


In this section, we are just going to think about a small chunk of code using tests. It is not TDD in that I am testing Red, Green, and Refactor. It just uses unit tests to build, think, and iterate over simple or complex ideas. If you find yourself reloading a browser to see if something is working right, then it is a good sign. You can just be writing a test. Even if you end up not keeping the test, it will get you to the final code quicker.

Getting ready

SSH into Homestead using the command homestead ssh and cd into the recipe directory and let's get testing. Also, we are going to use the client that we made to query the Marvel Comics API. So, you will need an API Key and a Token from them at https://developer.marvel.com/account.

How to do it...

  1. First, we need to add the key and secret to your .env file:

  2. Then, we will make a test around this setup:

    >php artisan make:test MarvelApiClientTest
    
  3. First, let's just write in the...