Introduction

This is one of my E-commerce API app implementations. It is written in Php using Laravel framework. This is not a finished project by any means, but it has a valid enough shape to be git cloned and studied if you are interested in this topic. If you are interested in this project take a look at my other server API implementations I have made with:

• Node Js + Sequelize
• Node Js + Bookshelf
• Node Js + Mongoose
• Python Django
• Python Flask
• Golang go gonic
• Java EE Spring Boot and Hibernate
• Ruby on Rails
• AspNet Core

The next projects to come will be:

• Elixir with phoenix and Ecto
• AspNet MVC 6
• Java EE with Jax RS with jersey
• Java EE with Apache Struts 2
• Spring Boot with Kotlin
• Go with Gorilla and Gorm
• Go with Beego
• Laravel with Fractal and Api Resources
• Flask with other Rest Api frameworks such as Flask-Restful, flask-apispec
• NodeJs with Knex (without Bookshelf, this one is already done, see above links)

Getting started

1. Git clone the project
2. Rename .env.example to .env and change the values as needed
3. Migrate php artisan migrate
4. Seed the database php artisan db:seed
5. Launch with php artisan serve --port=8080
6. Import api.postman.json into postman and begin issuing requests

What you will learn

• Laravel
  • Middlewares
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
• Eloquent ORM
  • associations: hasMany, belongsTo, belongsToMany
  • scopes
  • complex queries
  • paging
  • eager loading, select columns

Features

• Authentication / Authorization
• Paging
• Products, Orders, OrderItems, Addresses, Custom User model, Tags, Categories, Comments, TimestampedModel, FileUpload(Polymorphic)
• Products associated to images, file upload without any 3party package
• CRUD operations on products, comments, tags, categories
• Orders, guest users may place an order

Useful Artisan commands

composer dump-autoload php artisan migrate:reset php artisan migrate php artisan migrate:refresh --seed php artisan help make:model

• Scaffold with -a option: migration, controller and model php artisan make:model Model/Product -a php artisan route:list`` php artisan make:migrate

Todo

• Improve the seeding logic, there are orders with no order item.
• Security, File upload validations
• Unit testing
• Improve performance, improve database queries, they are fetching just everything now

Steps

• Set a link from public/storage to storage, that way uploaded files can be accessible php artisan storage:link

• This is needed for the migration rename_name_column where I rename name to username composer require doctrine/dbal