I am a very big fan of test-driven development (TDD) and I believe in using tests to verify that a codebase is reliable and stable. I believe in using TDD to produce stable systems and to effectively test software and…
BotMan Intro With Laravel Part 2: Slack Integration
If you followed my previous article regarding setting up BotMan with Laravel and writing your first bot then awesome! If not then check out part 1 here. For part 2, we are now going to cover setting up our BotMan…
Installing React with Laravel 5.5 Using Frontend Presets
In this tutorial, we are going to look at how to easily install React in Laravel 5.5 Using the new frontend presets feature which has come to Laravel 5.5 Installing Laravel Prerequisites: Composer PHP 7.0 or greater…
BotMan Intro With Laravel Part 1: Writing your first bot
I was recently tinkering with chat bots in PHP and stumbled across the BotMan library and thought it was so awesome that I'd share it with you all. What is BotMan? BotMan.io is an awesome PHP chatbot framework invented…
Travis Setup With Laravel and PHPUnit
Why Travis? I recently gave a talk at a local PHP Meetup in Cape Town discussing the basics of using Travis CI and how to implement it in a laravel project. I use Travis CI personally for my hobby projects…