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Experiments with Laravel: Going old school

Basics

Routing

• View routes
• Redirection: redirect and permanentRedirect
• Parameters:
  • Required and optional parameters
  • Routes with dependency injection
  • Routes with multiple variable parameters
  • regex constraints for parameters
  • some filters for paramters: where laravel has builtin funtions to limit the accepted parameters.
  • including global constraints e.g. all parameters names id should be uuid.
• named routes
• route groups
• controller group e.g. one controller for a group of routes
• subdomain routing
• rate limiting: by endpoint or by group of routes

Middlewares

Functions which form a link in the chain of functions from request to response.

• we can define classes too as middlewares
• before and after middlewares
• assigning one middleware to a group of routes
• withoutMiddleware function helps to exclude the middleware from a group.
• multiple middlewares can be grouped together and applied at once. e.g. web and api middleware groups.
• to determine the order in which they are executed, we can decide their priority in an array called middlewarePriority in kernel file.
• passing additional parameter to the middlewares and then retreiving them in the controller functions

CSRF Protection

Includes sending actions (ususally form actions) from a bad website to a good one - with data relevant to good ones.

Request

represents current request being handled. It is injected by default.

• it provides a series of methods, properties to inspect and consume the current request object.

Response

All controllers should return a valid response. A valid response includes:

Views

• view method renders and sends a HTML response.
• We can consume some data in the template.
• We can make a data available in all templates.
• view composers can be used rto fire a callback whenever a view is rendered.
• cache the templates while deploying to production and clear the cache during prodcution

Blade templates

Laravel's own template engine.

• it has directives to render the data. they are built-in functions for common use cases. TODO:
• learn to create laravel components and use them to build dynamic components.
• learn to create a good website with the templating by laravel only. it should feel like a SPA.
• how can I use vue.js to create something significant?

Asset Bundling & URL Generation : Pending

Sessions

Storing the sessions to persist user state.

flashed data session storage implementations making a counter for number of times this page was visited

reading more regarding how the session storage data is handled and lifespan of those items

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