Blog backend

Lumen project providing an API to a blog environment, with Users, Posts and Comments.

Documentation can be found here.

Requirements

• Docker

Installation

• cd in project directory
• Create .env file with cp .env.example .env and fill all missing variables
• Start Lumen and Database containers with docker-compose up -d
• Install required dependencies with docker exec -it blog-lumen bash -c "composer install"
• Generate JWT Secret with docker exec -it blog-lumen bash -c "php artisan jwt:secret"
• Run migrations with docker exec -it blog-lumen bash -c "php artisan migrate:fresh --seed"
• Profit

Notes

APIs will be available at http://localhost:PHP_HOST_PORT, where PHP_HOST_PORT is declared in .env file.
You can enable or disable XDebug using the XDEBUG_MODE environment variable.

Test

Tests are under /tests folder, run it with phpunit:

docker-compose run --rm blog-lumen bash -c "composer test"

Or, if you like coverage:

docker-compose run --rm blog-lumen bash -c "composer test:coverage"

PHPUnit coverage report will be accessible at private/tmp/index.html.

ToDo

• Upgrade to Lumen 8.x
• Upgrade to Composer 3
• Automated PHP-CS-Fixer
• Redis cache
• Clean up local Docker environment
• Review CI Docker environment
• Use Github workflow
• Setup a simple production environment
• Containerized infrastructure for server
• Pagination
• Notifications
• Upgrade to PHP 8.0

License

Copyright (c) 2020 Aronne Brivio. Released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.