Motherdough

Mother dough is another name for a [REST API] starter. This can be used to make just about any type of [REST API], or to flavor other types of [Web Apps]. It is most well known for making artisan [REST APIs]. -- Loren McCune, paraphrased

Overview

Motherdough is an artisanal PHP 8.1+ REST API starter kit built on Slim 4 and Vue 3.

This repo is monolithic by design, but is built in a way that you could split it into separate client and REST microservices if you so desired.

Disclaimer:

This is a personal project starter for myself. If you also like it, great! If you feel there is a missing core feature or something fundamentally broken with it, feel free to post an issue or issue a PR about it.

However, just because an issue or PR is submitted doesn't mean I will implement/accept it as I have my own goals for this framework, and you are more than welcome to fork this as you see fit.

Features:

• Client AND REST API Routing
• Database (via RedBeanPHP w/ SQLite by default)
• Authentication
  • cookie based sessions
  • registration
  • login
  • session state
  • password reset
  • email based 2FA by default'
  • Argon2ID password encryption with "reasonably safe defaults"
• Admin utilities (work in progress)
  • user management
  • session token management
  • roles and permissions
• Middleware
  • auth redirects
• Docker-compose workflow
• CLI based workflow
• File uploads/storage support
• Server-side templates
• Emails
• REST model validation/sanitization
• Content Security Policy (CSP) (work in progress)

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Getting started:

Requirements:

You will need the following:

• git
• if running via CLI
  • php 8.1+
  • node.js/npm
• if running via docker (work in progress)
  • docker-compose

Docker workflow:

docker-compose up -b

From here you should be able to open http://localhost:3005 in your browser and view your webapp.

Start making changes and refresh to see things in action.

CLI workflow:

Run the following commands in your terminal to setup the local environment:

# Clone the github repo
git clone https://github.com/bmcminn/motherdough ./your-project-name-here

# Copy the sample .env config and fill it out as needed
cp ./.env.sample ./.env

# Install local dependencies; this will install composer
#   and /client dependencies as well
npm i

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TODO:

SO many things... lots of things to reference in the original repo: https://github.com/bmcminn/starter-api

In no particular order:

• API: allow for password reset verification
• API: allow for password resets
• API: allow user to update info
• API: compare user passwords against list of invalid passwords
• API: deleting a user should fill the deleted_at field and blank their password field
• API: login should fail on empty password field
• API: use Email class to send emails
• API: use MJML to generate email views (find original implementation and migrate to this repo)
• CLI: allow for docker-compose client instance with vite --watch; expose port :5173 to allow for HMR
• CRON: daily -- iterate through all "deleted" users and expunge their data from the database
• DB: convert list of invalidate-passwords.txt to table
• DB: implement user_confirmation table
• DB: implement user_profile table
• DB: implement user_remembered table?
• DB: implement user_reset table -- list of password resets stored by auth token
• DB: implement user_session table -- list of sessions with user_id, expires_at
• DB: implement user_throttled table
• DOCS: add a docs/ directory with references to internal utilities
• DOCS: add a docs/cookbook/ resource for more specialized workflows
• UI: allow admin/super to blank users passwords to force reset them
• UI: allow admin/super to lookup sessions
• UI: allow admin/super to lookup users
• UI: allow admin/super to promote/demote user roles
• UI: allow admin/super to revoke one/many/all sessions
• UI: allow admin/super to soft delete users -- super cannot delete themselves
• DB: implement user table
• GIT: hookup this repo to a new branch on OG repo