Technical task

Technology stack

For this project I stuck with what I knew would be awesome to look at and also demonstrate some of Laravel's latest trends.

The project has been developed with the TALL stack (Tailwind, Alpine.js, Laravel and Livewire).

Installation & setup

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NOTE

This project depends on the host running a MacOS, Linux or WSL2 environment with PHP.

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Clone the repository and change into the project directory

git clone git@github.com:nathandaly/categories-crud.git
cd categories-crud

Copy the example .env

cp .env.example .env

Installing dependencies

composer install

Followed by

npm install
npm run dev

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NOTE

If your host system is not running PHP 8 then you will need to add --ignore-platform-reqs. to the composer command.

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Once the PHP and node dependencies have been resolved you can run the Sail containers.

export APP_PORT=8082 && ./vendor/bin/sail up -d

This command will normally take few minutes and will download and build the required containers.

Database migration and seeding

The project contains migration for the database structure as well as a DotFive user and example data which you can seed.

./vendor/bin/sail artisan migrate
./vendor/bin/sail artisan db:seed

🎉 Up and running 🎉

That should be all that is necessary for the application to be usable. Just head over to localhost::8082 and login with the following credentials:

email: test@dotfive.com
password: password

Todos:

If I had more time:

• Testing for livewire components
• Implement real-time cross browser changes with Laravel events and Echo
• Implement multiple categories to list edit form
• Implement add edit and category forms
• Add ordering logic for items (position field has already been added to the migration)
• Example CRUD controller logic (with Livewire you can almost go down the non-controller route)
• Created a generic form component that both add and edit could share with common methods such as refresh() and save()