DB Resource Usage

Since an API client is a boundary between your code and the outside world you should write as little code as possible to implement it. The client should strictly do its job by sending a request and returning a response. That is why we don’t really test the clients themselves but rather the code that processes the response from the client.

In Laravel framework you can create commands and call them from php application.  One command can call another command, and another command, and so on.  But if an exception is thrown in one of the commands in this chain the whole chain breaks.  In order to avoid this problem and run each artisan command as…

When working on a php package it is inconvenient to push the package to github (or other repository) and then wait for the package to update using composer update.  For package development, composer has such feature as path repositories.  Let’s imagine we have a two folders on the same level:  my-app and  package.   my-app is an app — a test…

When you work with APIs it is usually a good idea to log requests and responses. I already covered how to do logging when you are consuming an API. You can read about it in this post. Here we will cover how to do it when building an API service with Laravel. For example, you…