We help digital health startups, clinics, and medtech companies ideate, design, and develop custom web & mobile applications that transform the future of healthcare.

Install

Requirements: Php >= 8.2.0 & Composer

• brew install [email protected] composer Mac OS X with brew
• apt-get install php8.2 Ubuntu with apt-get (use sudo if is necessary)

This step is not necessary when you use Docker.

Techs

• Docker
  • Laravel Sail
• Laravel 11.X & Php 8.2
  • Tools
    • Clockwork Debug Bar
    • Ide Helper
    • Phpstan
    • Php ECS
    • Rector Php
    • XDebug
    • Sentry
  • Single Action and Clean Controllers
  • Request Classes
  • Strict Mode
• Vite
• Postcss
• Prettier
• Typescript
• React 18
• Tailwindcss 3
• Mysql 8
• Redis
• Meilisearch
• Minio
• Mailpit
• Pest Php for Backend Testing
  • Coverage HTML Report
• Browser Testing with Dusk (using selenium)
• Git
  • PR Template
  • Issue Template
  • Git Hooks with CaptainHook

Backend Installation

1. Clone GitHub repo for this project locally:

   git clone [email protected]:Light-it-labs/laravel

2. cd into your project and create a copy of your .env file

   cd laravel
   cp .env.example .env

3. If you have Php installed you can install composer dependencies with sail included with

   docker run --rm \
     -u "$(id -u):$(id -g)" \
     -v $(pwd):/var/www/html \
     -w /var/www/html \
     laravelsail/php82-composer:latest \
     composer install --ignore-platform-reqs

4. After that you can use laravel sail for running your project.

   sail up

   See more detail below.

5. When the app is running, into the bash container (sail bash) you can use the following commands:

   php artisan key:generate
   php artisan storage:link
   php artisan ide-helper:generate
   php artisan migrate --seed

Frontend

You need nvm installed in your machine. https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#install--update-script

For frontend environment you need install npm dependencies with npm install and after that to compile assets for Frontend SPA in local you can run: npm run dev or npm run watch In production environment is necessary run npm run production

1. Install npm dependencies:

   nvm use
   npm install

2. Run the app:

   npm run dev

Hooks

You must activate the hooks in your local git repository. To do so, just run the following command.

vendor/bin/captainhook install

Executing this will create the hook script located in your .git/hooks directory, for each hook you choose to install while running the command. So now every time git triggers a hook, CaptainHook gets executed.

If you don't have PHP installed locally or you have installed a different version, you can use Docker to execute CaptainHook. To do so you must install the hooks a bit differently.

vendor/bin/captainhook install --run-mode=docker --run-exec="docker exec CONTAINER_NAME"

You can choose your preferred docker command e.g.:

docker exec MY_CONTAINER_NAME
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/var/www/html MY_IMAGE_NAME
docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose.yml run --rm -T MY_SERVICE_NAME

If you want to know more you can see de documentation in the official page https://captainhookphp.github.io/captainhook/

Running

We use Laravel Sail, is a light-weight command-line interface for interacting with Laravel's default Docker development environment. Sail provides a great starting point for building a Laravel application without requiring prior Docker experience.

Configuring A Bash Alias

By default, Sail commands are invoked using the vendor/bin/sail script that is included with all new Laravel applications:

However, instead of repeatedly typing vendor/bin/sail to execute Sail commands, you may wish to configure a Bash alias that allows you to execute Sail's commands more easily:

alias sail='[ -f sail ] && bash sail || bash vendor/bin/sail'

Starting & Stopping Sail

sail up

To start all the Docker containers in the background, you may start Sail in "detached" mode:

sail up -d

To stop all of the containers, you may simply press Control + C to stop the container's execution. Or, if the containers are running in the background, you may use the stop command:

sail stop

Executing Commands

# Running Artisan commands locally...
php artisan queue:work

# Running Artisan commands within Laravel Sail...
sail artisan queue:work

# Executing PHP Commands
sail php script.php

# Executing Composer Commands
sail composer require laravel/sanctum

# Running Tests
sail test

# Running with Coverage
sail composer test

For more info https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/sail

Php Standards

Run: composer fixer and execute php cs, php cs fixer, php stan and rector.

Read https://lightit.slite.com/app/docs/rd0tnuQ5w

Testing

To run all test and generate report coverage you can use: sail composer test

In computer science, code coverage is a measure used to describe the degree to which the source code of a program is tested by a particular test suite. A program with high code coverage has been more thoroughly tested and has a lower chance of containing software bugs than a program with low code coverage.

You can see the report open index.html in the reports folder.

Dusk Test

If you want to run Dusk test, first you need compile files with vite build and after that you can use sail dusk for running browser test. Important: make sure the vite server is not running

XDebug

PHPStorm configuration

First open Preferences > PHP > Debug. Just to make sure we will be able to catch the interrupt from xdebug, we just need to check the “Break at first line in PHP scripts”. Next, we need to turn on Run > Start Listening for PHP Debug Connection.

Finally, let’s configure the server configuration in Preferences > PHP > Servers

Couple of things to ensure

• “Name” must be identical to the one set in the docker-compose.yml
• Check “Use path mappings”
• Map your local project folder to the docker folder. (/var/www/html)

That’s it. Create a breakpoint somewhere in the project and check that all is working. Once everything is working, you can remove the “Break at first line in PHP scripts”.

https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/sail#debugging-with-xdebug

Debugbar

The web page is using a clockwork as debugbar, it is similar to debugbar from laravel, The most important difference between clockwork and debugbar (standard) is that clockwork only display information in console so, you need to open console (F12)

Full documentation of clockwork in this link.

It is mandatory to install plugin of clockwork in your browser check this link

Sentry

Sentry is a developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring platform. Errors are logged both from the frontend and backend. In order to get it up and running, you need to follow these steps:

1. Create an account here
2. Create a project within an organization
3. Copy the DSN provided below "Configure SDK" and paste it in your .env's SENTRY_LARAVEL_DSN
4. You can test your configuration using sail artisan sentry:test

DISCLAIMER: If you see this in your network tab, it may be due to the browser you're using. This screenshot was taken from the Arc browser, which made it seem as if something was missing, while on the Google browser the request is successful.

HTTP Codes References

The next list contains the HTTP codes returned by the API and the meaning in the present context:

• HTTP 200 Ok: the request has been processed successfully.
• HTTP 201 Created: the resource has been created. It's associated with a POST Request.
• HTTP 204 No Content: the request has been processed successfully but does not need to return an entity-body.
• HTTP 400 Bad Request: the request could not been processed by the API. You should review the data sent to.
• HTTP 401 Unauthorized: When the request was performed to the login endpoint, means that credentials are not matching with any. When the request was performed to another endpoint means that the token it's not valid anymore due TTL expiration.
• HTTP 403 Forbidden: the credentials provided with the request has not the necessary permission to be processed.
• HTTP 404 Not Found: the endpoint requested does not exist in the API.
• HTTP 422: the payload sent to the API did not pass the validation process.
• HTTP 500: an unknown error was triggered during the process.

Please refer to https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html for reference

Host aliases

To access services in local environment with host aliases, add the following aliases in the /etc/hosts file.

1. Edit the file with the following command:

   sudo nano /etc/hosts

2. Paste the following hosts aliases:

   127.0.0.1       laravel.test
   127.0.0.1       db
   127.0.0.1       s3
   127.0.0.1       redis
   127.0.0.1       mailpit

System Requirements

• php: 8.2.x
• php ini configurations:
  • upload_max_filesize = 100M
  • post_max_size = 100M
  • These numbers are illustrative. Set them according to your project needs.

Emoji Guide

For reviewers: Emojis can be added to comments to call out blocking versus non-blocking feedback.

E.g: Praise, minor suggestions, or clarifying questions that don’t block merging the PR.

🟢 Nice refactor!

🟡 Why was the default value removed?

E.g: Blocking feedback must be addressed before merging.

🔴 This change will break something important

Blocking	🔴 ❌ 🚨	RED
Non-blocking	🟡 💡 🤔 💭	Yellow, thinking, etc
Praise	🟢 💚 😍 👍 🙌	Green, hearts, positive emojis, etc

Links

• Git Flow
• Handbook of good practices for reviewers in Code Reviews