Sena Pratama The site embodies many features Laravel
developers would likely want to integrate into their own web applications, including user authentication,
complex models and database relationships, e-mail delivery, sophisticated views and layouts, and
Vue.js-based interface enhancement. I'll highlight a few other key features here:
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Comprehensive Database Seeding Examples: Many beginning developers tend to skip over the generation of
real-world data for the development environment. Sena Pratama includes extensive data generation scripts
(known as seeds) for users, events, categories, and locations.
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Form Integration and Validation: Sena Pratama uses the powerful LaravelCollective/HTML package
for forms generation, and relies on formalized Laravel procedures for input validation including use of the
native Laravel validators and form requests.
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Extensive Model Relationships: Sena Pratama offers numerous examples of model relationships by including
features such as event creation (events are owned by users), event favorites (users can favorite many
events), event locations (events belong to states, states have many events), and so on.
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User Authentication and Profile Management: Laravel offers great off-the-shelf support for user
registration and login, however developers will quickly outgrow the defaults. Sena Pratama extends the
registration form to include several additional fields, extensively modifies the default registration and
login view formatting, and adds account profile management.
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Social Login: In addition to standard user registration and authentication, users can instead opt to
login using a third-party service such as GitHub and Twitter.
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Route Model Binding: The app takes advantage of route model binding whenever practical,
eliminating a great deal of otherwise required boilerplate code.
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Vue.js Features: Vue.js is Laravel's de facto JavaScript library. HackerPair includes a number of cool
Vue.js features, including AJAX-driven event favoriting, Google Maps integration, an event attendance widget, and notifications.
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Bootstrap 4 Integration: Although Bootstrap 4 is still in beta at the time of this writing, I wanted
to give it a spin and am glad I did. Although I will make clear I'm not a CSS nor design guru, and you'll
find some of my styling to be repulsive. At any rate, in the book you'll also learn how to
integrate Bootstrap 3, Bootstrap 4, and the new Tailwind CSS frameworks.
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Extensive Automated Testing: One of my favorite Laravel features is the practically push button
automated test integration. The HackerPair project includes extensive testing of numerous aspects of the
code, including unit tests, model tests, and integration tests using Laravel Dusk.
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A REST API (forthcoming): We want to give developers the chance to build their own cool Sena Pratama applications, and
so have exposed a REST API which allows information about events to be retrieved for display in a variety of
formats.