In this tutorial, we will go through the setup process and the main development tasks to create a Codeigniter 4 application from scratch. CodeIgniter is a PHP application development framework featuring a small footprint and great documentation. However, it’s simple and flexible enough to let you choose your way to work. It provides simple configuration and helpful tools for common development tasks.
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Web development topics in general, web application development. It applies also to developers and developer tasks.
Building a Laravel 8 Application: Routes and Views
In this post, we start building a Laravel 8 Application just created. You can follow the tutorial Create a Laravel 8 application from scratch to install and create your first project and the initial application structure. However, this can be applied to a project created using the Laravel Sail tools or Composer.
The main areas to work at the start of the project are:
- Understanding the project directory structure
- Navigation paths, adding/modifying routes
- Application screens, creating/modifying views
Create a Laravel 8 application from scratch
In this tutorial, we will explore how to create a Laravel 8 application from scratch and then prepare your application for development. However, the overall process changed from the previous version (Laravel 7), improving the developer experience with a fresh set of tools. Now, the new Laravel 8 provides Sail, a built-in solution for running your Laravel project using Docker.
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In this post, I share some useful GIT commands for everyday use. After years of using GIT, I’ve found useful commands to make my developer’s life easier. This is the list of the most frequently used in my case.
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How to explain Javascript .filter() .map() and .reduce() to SQL users
I found using .filter() .map() and .reduce() Array methods could help to reduce code complexity and simplify many typical array data processing tasks. Looking at http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es5/#test-Array_methods, you can confirm these methods are compatible with almost any modern desktop/mobile browser.
A good approach to understand how to use .filter() .map() and .reduce() is to compare each one to SQL data operations in SELECT statements.
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Google SEO Tools to improve your site rank
There are many useful Google SEO tools, created by Google, to improve your SEO and site rank. These free tools could help you improve your search position:
- Webmaster Tools (Google Search Console)
- Google Analytics
- Keyword Planner
- Google Page Speed
- Structured Data tools
- Markup Helper
- Structured Data Testing
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Configure PHP and Laravel Framework
In this guide we configure PHP and Laravel Framework to build web applications and REST APIs. As a result, you can prepare the environment to start the development process in a Laravel Project.
Note: for the newest Laravel 8, you can follow the instructions in this new post: Create a Laravel 8 application from scratch
After this process, you will get installed the following components:
- PHP (PHP 7 or newer)
- MySQL/MariaDB server engine and client
- PEAR (PHP repository of common reusable components)
- Composer (PHP package and dependency manager)
- XDebug (PHP debugger used by unit tests tools like PHPUnit)
- Laravel command line tools (
laravelandphp artisan)
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GitHub is now offering Unlimited private repos for free
GitHub is now offering Unlimited private repos for free. From a recent update on January 7th, 2019, Github announced a big change in their main offerings for developer and enterprise accounts.
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Statically typed Javascript : Why and How
In the last months I have found good experiences using Statically typed Javascript. For example, using React with Typescript. It helps a lot to build a robust Web development, with statically typed Javascript support, ready for a complex and enterprise-level projects.
TypeScript is maintained by Microsoft, but it’s not the only option for statically typed Javascript. Flow, from Facebook and Dart from Google are similar options among a long list of implementations.
Why so many “big companies” are doing really big efforts to introduce static typing in Javascript development in the last years?
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Build a REST API with Node.js SQLite and Express JS
In this guide you can build a REST API with Node.js SQLite and Express.js. Then, in a next part, we will be building automated Unit tests using Mocha and Chai, ready for a Test-Driven Development (TDD).
The main components of this REST service are:
- A Node.js base project, created as a NPM module
- An Express.js web server to manage the API endpoints, requests and responses
- A SQLite database for application storage
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