Develop robust modern web-based software applications and RESTful APIs with Laravel, one of the hottest PHP frameworks
If you are an experienced or a capable PHP programmer who has a basic understanding of the concepts of modern PHP (at least version 5.4), this book is ideal for you.
Basic object-oriented programming and database knowledge is expected. You should already know your way around Laravel, or have at least experimented with the framework.
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.
With this book you will learn how to rapidly develop software applications using the Laravel 5 PHP framework.
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.
Chapter 1: Designing Done Right with phpspec
Chapter 2: Automating Tests – Migrating and Seeding Your Database
Chapter 3: Building Services, Commands, and Events
Chapter 4: Creating RESTful APIs
Chapter 5: Using the Form Builder
Chapter 6: Taming Complexity with Annotations
Chapter 7: Filtering Requests with Middleware
Chapter 8: Querying the Database with the Eloquent ORM
Chapter 9: Scaling Laravel
Chapter 10: Building, Compiling, and Testing with Elixir
