This repo is home to the Icodestuff website built with Laravel

Local Setup

Homestead is the development environment the website uses to ensure consistency between environments you must use it in order to contribute.

Mac Setup:

System Requirements

• Download Homebrew
• Download VirtualBox6.X
• Download Vagrant

Install PHP & Composer

In your terminal run the following commands:

brew install php
brew install composer

Install Dependencies & Setup Virtual Machine

composer install
php vendor/bin/homestead make
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]"

Update Homestead.yml

Here is an example of my Homestead.yml file:

ip: 192.168.10.10
memory: 2048
cpus: 2
provider: virtualbox
authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
keys:
    - ~/.ssh/id_rsa
folders:
    - map: /Users/solomonantoine/icodestuff/website
      to: /home/vagrant/code
sites:
    - map: local.icodestuff.io
      to: /home/vagrant/code/public
      php: "7.4"
      schedule: true
      wildcard: "yes"
databases:
    - icodestuff
    - icodestuff_testing
features:
    - mysql: true
    - mariadb: false
    - ohmyzsh: true
    - webdriver: true
name: icodestuff
hostname: icodestuff

Start Virtual Machine

vagrant up
vagrant ssh

Setup Environment

Setup your local environment just type setup into your terminal. This will setup your daemon, redis and database.

Configure Hosts File

This should happen automatically, but if it doesn't go to: /etc/hosts and paste this:

192.168.10.10 local.icodestuff.io

Be sure the ip address isn't being used more than once.

Coding Standards

Use IoC container

Please use dependency injection and the IOC container when needing to access services. Stay away from Facades as they are anti-pattern. Read more here why not to use Facades.

Bad Practice

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash;
class ExampleController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Create a new controller instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        //
    }
    public function foo()
    {
        Hash::make(); // bad practice
    }
}

Good Practice

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Hashing\Hasher;
class ExampleController extends Controller
{
    private Hasher $hasher;
    /**
     * Create a new controller instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct(Hasher $hasher)
    {
        $this->hasher = $hasher;
    }
    public function foo()
    {
        $this->hasher->make();
    }
}

Do not get data from the .env file directly

Pass the data to config files instead and then use the config() helper function to use the data in an application.

Bad Practice:

$apiKey = env('API_KEY');

Good Practice:

// config/api.php
'key' => env('API_KEY');
// Use the data
$apiKey = config('api.key');

Static Analysis

To ensure your build doesn't fail, run ./vendor/bin/phpstan analyse to perform a static analysis check.

Testing

Please write tests!! Run php artisan test before committing your code, to ensure your build doesn't fail.

Troubleshooting

Composer Memory

If you get an issue about composer memory limit just type memory into your terminal. This will create a swap file and boost your memory to 4GB.

Redis Failure

Sometimes Redis fails to run, to get it going again just run: sudo /etc/init.d/redis-server restart

Contributing Guide

TODO