{"id":1423,"date":"2022-05-28T01:07:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T01:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ridiculously-simple.com\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2022-05-28T06:43:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T06:43:10","slug":"laravel-the-tools-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/2022\/05\/28\/laravel-the-tools-you-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Laravel &#8211; Tools and environments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The following are things that are commonly used with Laravel. broken down by category<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Environment tools and solutions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>PHP composer (Mandatory)<\/li><li>Docker &#8211; Sail (Optional)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Relevant \/ Compatible server side software<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Apache2 (2.4) (Web Server)<\/li><li>Nginx (Web Server)<\/li><li>PHP (PHP8.x for Laravel 9)<\/li><li>redis (Data structure store)<\/li><li>memcache (in-memory, distributed cache)<\/li><li><em>MeiliSearch<\/em> (Search application)<\/li><li>MailHog (email-testing tool with a fake SMTP server)<\/li><li>Selinium (browser automation)<\/li><li>MySQL\/Mariadb (Database engine, most common)<\/li><li>PostgreSQL (Database Engine, very powerful)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Development environments<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Microsoft Visual Studio Code (Free): built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js, extensions include PHP<\/li><li>Sublime text (Not free, works but nags)<\/li><li>Apache beans (Free)<\/li><li>IntellijIDEA (Not free, one month trial)<\/li><li>PHPStorm (Same as IntellijIDEA without the other languages support, Not Free, one month trial)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Database Management<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>MAC: Sequel Pro and sequel ace<\/li><li>ALL: PHPMyAdmin, mysql workbench (Oracle), <\/li><li>sqlyog (Windows and Linux)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Other<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Node.js<\/li><li>NPM (Installed with node.js): npm is a package manager for the JavaScript to work with front end stuff like node.js, react.js, bootstrap, tailwind CSS, <\/li><li>Yarn (NPM alternative from Facebook)<\/li><li>GIT: track changes in source code<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following are things that are commonly used with Laravel. broken down by category Environment tools and solutions PHP composer (Mandatory) Docker &#8211; Sail (Optional) Relevant \/ Compatible server side software Apache2 (2.4) (Web Server) Nginx (Web Server) PHP (PHP8.x for Laravel 9) redis (Data structure store) memcache (in-memory, distributed cache) MeiliSearch (Search application) MailHog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laravel","category-php"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}