Laravel Books API

Introduction

This app provides a list of books in a RESTful API. Source of data obtained from Gramedia by using the web scraping technique.

Purpose

Apart from providing a booklist API, this app was created primarily to learn how to write unit-testable code in Laravel and also presents use cases of framework features such as:

• Cache Control
• Eloquent
  • API Resources
  • Mutators
  • Query Scopes
• Error Handling
• Facades
• Form Request Validation
• Sanctum
• Service Providers
• Testing
  • Database Testing
  • HTTP Tests
  • Mocking

If you are interested in exploring this app, you can check to start from routes/api.php, app/ folder & tests/ folder.

Further reading

In addition to the official documentation from Laravel, here are some reference articles that help the development of this application and may be of interest to you:

• https://ashallendesign.co.uk/blog/how-to-make-your-laravel-app-more-testable
• https://www.larashout.com/creating-custom-facades-in-laravel
• https://timacdonald.me/using-laravels-policies-route-model-binding-without-eloquent/

API documentation

You can read the API documentation on the following page.

Installation

Manual installation

Requirements: PHP 8.1, Composer, RDBMS (such as: MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, etc).

Installation steps:

• Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/yusuftaufiq/laravel-books-api.git
• Change directory cd laravel-books-api
• Copy environment file cp .env.example .env
• Set the database configuration you are using in .env
• If you don’t have SQLite installed, also set the database configuration in the file .env.testing
• Make sure you have created the database according to the DB_DATABASE environment value you set
• Install composer dependencies composer install
• Run the migration using php artisan migrate
• Run the application using php artisan serve

Via Docker

Requirements: Docker

Installation steps:

• Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/yusuftaufiq/laravel-books-api.git
• Change directory cd laravel-books-api
• Copy environment file cp .env.example .env
• You may want to change DOCKER_FORWARD_* in .env to prevent port conflicts
• Build container with docker-compose up -d --build site
• Install composer dependencies docker-compose run --rm composer install
• Run the migration using docker-compose run --rm artisan migrate

Useful commands

• composer cache:clear: clear app cache
• composer code:analyze: run static code analyzer using PHP Stan and check code style using PHP Code Sniffer
• php artisan insights: analyze code quality using PHP Insights
• php artisan test: run feature & unit tests

Limitation

Since this app is currently hosted on Heroku using a free plan, there is no guarantee that this app will be accessible at any time.

Tech stack

• Laravel 9 - Core framework
• PHP 8.1 - Language syntax
• Docker - Container platform
• Github Actions - CI/CD platform

Credits

• Greatly inspired by https://github.com/guillaumebriday/laravel-blog
• Thanks to https://github.com/aschmelyun/docker-compose-laravel for the docker-compose configuration
• Index page created with https://devdojo.com/tails/app

License

This application is licensed under the MIT license.