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Spryker is a commerce operating system for business-to-business(b2b) and business-to-consumer(b2c) companies. With Spryker, you can implement awesome customer interfaces while still maintaining a modular architectural implementation. This article is aimed at highlighting a few of the important concepts of the framework. When reading through the documentation of Spryker, you will come across this phrase…
What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes, also known as K8s is an opensource system for production-grade container orchestration. Modern applications stack usually are made up of a minimum of two to three services that interact with each other (web service, database service, and caching service), which run inside containers. Container orchestration, simply put is organizing these respective containers together. K8s is…
In this tutorial, We will learn how to create a web application that gathers top news across multiple news sites, using News API and Laravel. News API is a simple and easy-to-use API that returns JSON metadata for the headlines currently published on a range of news sources and blogs. At the end of this tutorial, you will…
Laravel 5.8 was released on February, 26th 2019. This new release continues the improvements made in the previous release (version 5.7), as well as new features which includes support for the postmark email service, “has-one-through” Eloquent relationships, improved email validation, and many others. In the course of this article, we will take a look at the…
In the previous chapter, we had a brief introduction to slim3 and we set up our application to use Laravel’s Eloquent to communicate with our database. We also created our database schema and setup Phinx to help with our migration files. Finally, we included a validation package that ensures our users submit the right data to our API.In…
Slim framework took off in 2013 when Josh Lockhart released the first version of the framework. The idea was to create a PHP micro framework that helps PHP developers quickly and easily write web applications and APIs. Over time, Slim has risen to risen to the point of competing with other PHP frameworks, like Laravel, Symphony, Codeigniter amongst others. In…
If you have used Laravel for a while, you should have heard a lot about multiple authentications. You should have also heard “guards” a whole lot. But if you are fairly new to Laravel, multiple authentications makes it possible for you to have different classes of users access different/similar parts of the same application. There are many reasons why…
Writing tests for an application is a great software development practice. Often, it is the first coding task to be performed before building the features of an application. As the first coding task, tests are initially written to fail because we have no code to satisfy the requirements of the test. Once our tests fails, we can can then build…
Frontend with multi-language styling In the previous chapters, we looked at what an international application is and the different things to consider when making one. We started building our tour guide application and made the backend of the application. We also added multilingual support for the basic pages and content. In this chapter, we will focus on making the…
Creating multi-language string maps In the previous chapters, we looked at what an international application is and the different things to consider when building one. We got started with the tour guide application and made the backend of our application. In this chapter, we will look at how to add support for multiple languages on our application. Prerequisites Read…