Laravel e-commerce Restful API

What is this

This is an course work by following RESTful API with Laravel course (the repo) with some diffrences.

What's this cover

Eloquent ORM and model event - Collection - File Upload - Email - Migration - Factories and Seeding - Request and Response Transformation - Complex Model Operation - Paging - Caching - Hateoas (or REST level 3) - Validation - Error Handling - Middlewares - Passport and Scopes - Policy - Gate

What I Did Differently

Docker instead of Vagrant

I was using docker-compose-laravel for the development environment instead of vagrant. With that setup, i didn't need to install dev app (such as artisan or composer) on my local machine making the project more organized and can be run anywhere (with docker). Docker also run faster than vagrant.

Laravel 7

The tutorial was 3 years old and using laravel 5.4. I'd decided to use laravel 7 to see the differences. Indeed, there are differences and i've learned so much figuring out why things not working the same as the tutorial. But I've also learned that there were barely any breaking changes from 5.4 to 7 as long as you stick to the pattern and not doing hacky implementation.

Want to know more

The bussiness process

This is an e-commerce backend which include buyer, seller, product, category and transaction model. You can go to /design-artifacts to see the list of endpoints and the database diagram.

How to run

1. Download docker
2. Run docker-compose up -d --build to build and run the container in detach mode.
3. Run docker-compose run --rm artisan migrate:refresh --seed to migrate & seed the database.
4. The system should be running on localhost:8080