LARAVEL Training in Washington, DC, United States

Learning Objective: 

Learn to install and set up Laravel and Homestead.

• Setting up Homestead
• Setting up composer and PHP on your local machine for faster Workflows
• Using .env for your local build
• Using sequel pro and connecting to local and remote databases
• Setting up your first application in Homestead
• Setting up Gulp and Elixir

Hands-on: 

Set up Homestead, composer, PHP, Gulp, Elixir.

Learning Objective: 

Learn about some of the day-to-day workflows of setting up Laravel to use composer and many of the packages for use in our PHP applications.

• Working with the composer install command and avoiding the Composer update
• Downloading and installing Guzzle using Composer
• Making a provider
• Using the Facade pattern
• Using private packages

Hands-on: 

Work with composer, download and install Guzzle using Composer

Learning Objective: 

Learn to test your routes, API based routes, and name them.

• Building an API / JSON based route for searching
• Testing your route in PHPUnit
• Building a view based route
• Testing your view based route in PHPUnit
• Creating named routes

Hands-on: 

Build API based route for searching and test the routes.

Learning Objective:   

Walk through setting up Blade files, installing a theme, making an authentication page, and more.   

• Organizing your Blade files
• Installing a WrapBootStrap theme
• Making your authentication pages
• Implementing an error message template
• Building your main search page
• Adding static pages

Hands-on: 

Install themes and build your main search page.

Learning Objective:   

Learn about the common workflows and other tips and tricks around Laravel and data or state, which include files.

• Setting up users and running migrations
• Altering a migration
• Using factories for migrations and tests
• Using a generator to scaffold your user wishlist area
• Seeding so you can see how your app looks
• Adding a file upload to user profile
• Validating file upload
• Saving files to S3

Hands-on: 

Set up users and alter migration. Also, save files to S3

Learning Objective:   

Learn about the day-to-day workflows that are needed to protect your site, manage subscriptions, and administer users.

• Using policies and guard to protect user pages
• Adding feature flags to hide features from users
• Implementing Socialite to allow users to login with Facebook
• Adding custom middleware to protect the user admin area
• Using Laravel to set up a subscription site
• Creating an interface for the user to manage subscriptions
• Creating an admin interface for subscriptions

Hands-on: 

Create an interface for the user to manage subscriptions. Also, create an admin interface for subscriptions.

Learning Objective:   

Learn the concepts of what to test, how to get started, mocking, and more.

• Generating test
• Using tests to think through your code TDT (Test Driven Thinking)
• Using VCR for API testing
• Getting your code onto GitHub
• Using Travis to run tests with every push
• Launching Gulp watch into your workflow
• Using Mockery to test your controllers
• Troubleshooting your application

Hands-on: 

Test, debug and troubleshoot application in order to deploy.

Learning Objective:   

Learn about Artisan commands and how to use them. Also, learn about setting up notification e-mails so that we can notify users when new comics come in and more.

• Building an Artisan command
• Creating scheduler to notify users of new comics
• Setting up e-mail notices
• Adding clean URLs for the users profile page
• Using pusher for live notifications
• Adding a blog area to update users on new features

Hands-on: 

Set up notification emails to notify users.

Learning Objective:   

Go over some key steps to getting your application to deploy.

• Setting up Forge, AWS, and CodeDeploy
• Setting up Travis to auto deploy when all is passing
• Working with your .env file
• Testing your application on production with Behat
• Making a composer package out of our client

Hands-on: 

Set up environment for deployment.