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Mastering Laravel

By : Christopher Pecoraro
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Mastering Laravel

By: Christopher Pecoraro

Overview of this book

<p>PHP continues to revive and Laravel is at its forefront. Laravel follows modern PHP's object-oriented best practices and reduces time-to-market, enabling you to build robust web and API-driven mobile applications that can be automatically tested and deployed.</p> <p>With this book you will learn how to rapidly develop software applications using the Laravel 5 PHP framework.</p> <p>This book walks you through the creation of an application, starting with behavior-driven design of entities. You'll explore various aspects of modern software including the RESTful API, and will be introduced to command bus. Laravel's annotations package is also explained and demonstrated. Finally, the book closes with a demonstration of different ways to deploy and scale your applications.</p>

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Mastering Laravel
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Laravel
Mastering Laravel
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Designing Done Right with phpspec
Designing Done Right with phpspec
A new era
Installing and configuring Laravel
TDD done right
phpspec
Entity creation
The MyCompany database schema
Designing with phpspec
Specifying with phpspec
Controllers
Summary
2
Automating Tests – Migrating and Seeding Your Database
Automating Tests – Migrating and Seeding Your Database
Using Laravel's migration feature
From schema to migration
Migration anatomy
Creating seeds
Database testing with PHPUnit
Functional testing with Behat
Summary
3
Building Services, Commands, and Events
Building Services, Commands, and Events
Request routing
Summary
4
Creating RESTful APIs
Creating RESTful APIs
RESTful APIs in Laravel
Essential CRUD
Bonus features
Controller creation
CRUD(L) by example
Model binding
Moving beyond CRUD
Nested controllers
Eloquent model casting
Route caching
Summary
5
Using the Form Builder
Using the Form Builder
History
Installing the HTML package
Building web pages with Laravel
Our example
Conclusion
Summary
6
Taming Complexity with Annotations
Taming Complexity with Annotations
Annotations in other programming languages
DocBlock annotations
Resource controller using DocBlock annotations
Single method routing
Scanning routes
Automatic scanning
Additional annotations
Using annotations in Laravel 5
Conclusion
Summary
7
Filtering Requests with Middleware
Filtering Requests with Middleware
The HTTP kernel
The basic middleware structure
Route middleware unravelled
Using middleware
Middleware exclusion and inclusion
Conclusion
Summary
8
Querying the Database with the Eloquent ORM
Querying the Database with the Eloquent ORM
Basic operations
Eloquent relations
Polymorphic relations
Conclusion
Summary
9
Scaling Laravel
Scaling Laravel
Scalability issues
Towards the enterprise
Route caching
Creating a master/slave database configuration
Summary
10
Building, Compiling, and Testing with Elixir
Building, Compiling, and Testing with Elixir
Automating Laravel
Towards automation
From Gulp to Elixir
Getting started
Running Elixir
Setting up notifications
Combining CSS and JavaScript files with Elixir
Compiling with Laravel Elixir
Running tests with Elixir
Setting up a file watcher
Additional Laravel Elixir tasks
Summary
Index
Index

Running tests with Elixir

In addition to compiling and sending notifications, Elixir may also be used to automate the launching of tests. The following sections will discuss how Elixir can be used for both PHPSpec and PHPUnit.

PHPSpec

The first step would be to run the PHPSpec tests to automate code testing. By adding phpSpec() to our gulpfile.js as follows, PHPSpec tests will run:

elixir(function(mix) {
    mix.less('app.less').phpSpec();
});

The output is shown in the following screenshot. The PHPSpec output is maintained, so the test output is very useful:

When the PHPSpec tests fail, the results are easily readable:

A screenshot of Laravel Elixir's output

In this example, phpspec encountered an error in the it creates a reservation test line as shown in the preceding screenshot.

PHPUnit

Similarly, we may add PHPUnit to our suite of tests by adding phpUnit to the list of tasks as follows:

elixir(function(mix) {
    mix.less('app.less').phpSpec().phpUnit();
});

Creating custom tasks

Elixir gives us...

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