Blog Api

A TDD implementation of a weblog RESTful API.
This project is a REST api implementation of my other project laravel with more features.

features

• Post CRUD: a post can be created, read, updated and deleted.
• Post comment CRUD: a post may have many comments which can be created, read, updated and deleted by the owner.
• Post view: There is a table for saving every post view and its view count.
• Category CRUD: a post must have a category which it can be created, read, updated and deleted.
• Post bookmark: a user can bookmark many posts, and can view all bookmarked posts.
• authentication: using laravel sanctum to implement authentication in the project.
• Post Status: a post can be in drafted or published status, and published posts will be fetched in posts feed.
• Post feed: a feed of all published posts.

technical features

• Using Pest testing framework to implement the api in TDD style using more than 75 feature & unit test.
• cleanup models using traits.
• create a reusable system of traits for models to implement new eloquent relationships.
• using custom laravel validation rules for required rules that are not present in laravel/core.
• using form request classes to separate validation logic from controllers logic.
• organize form request classes in App/Http/Requests folder in resource named folders for better codebase organization.
• organize controllers in App/Http/Controllers folder in resource named folders for better codebase organization.
• using integers to represent enum instead of storing an enum in the database.
• using StatusManager classes to separate enum behaviour from other parts of the code.
• using third-party libraries to implement authentication.