martinpirate / blog_app

simple blog app using laravel inertia js

Blog test

Technical Choices

• I used Inertia JS/Vue 3 since it allows me to build a fully JavaScript-based single-page application without any of the added complexity.
• Used Redis cache to cache welcome page posts queries which enables low latency and high throughput data access.
• HTTP get and a scheduled command to import posts from the external API.
• Out of the box authentication and authorization for laravel 9.
• Unit Tests for all end points.
• Auth middleware and a simple helper function to secure roots and controller methods.

To get started, clone the repository first and then install composer packages.

git clone [email protected]:MartinPirate/blog_app.git

install package for laravel

composer install

install package for npm

npm install

build assets

npm run dev

Create the .env file by copying .env.example file.

cd blog_app
cp .env.example .env

Then, generate the application key by running the following command in the terminal.

php artisan key:generate

After this step, update database credentials in the .env file.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=blog_app
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

After this step, setup database credentials in the .env file.

REDIS_CLIENT=predis
REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
REDIS_PASSWORD=null
REDIS_PORT=6379

For database set up and data seeding run, it will create an admin user and 3 more different users with 3 posts each for testing

php artisan migrate --seed

Import posts

To test the Posts import from (https://candidate-test.sq1.io/api.php`) endpoint, run the following command

• Scheduled to run every 2 hours

php artisan posts:import

Unit Testing

To run the tests simple run following command from the root directory.

./vendor/bin/phpunit || php artisan test

🍻 Cheers!